The Bottle Room

Very good!  Went with clients while visiting the area. Very nice atmosphere, relaxed and understated.  Good service and nice selection if you like wine.  It was a little hard to find because our GPS took us to the wrong intersection, but our local friends talked us in.  Worth the search.

Oh Bottle Room.  I've visited you a number of times while visiting friends around GB.  Sometimes you're awesome.  Sometimes you suck.  Sometimes you're packed to the gills.  Sometimes you're empty as a pizza box after bar time.  You're so very fickle.

Let's start with wine.  They have a good selection of wines, including a few off the wall varieties.  There's plenty around here to drink.

The food is really very very good.  However, portions are laughably small for the price.  Prices are laughably high.

I think most of the staff are nice, although they are regularly hard to find no matter how busy the restaurant is or isn't.  However it appears that the owners prefer to use their restaurant as a personal hangout for themselves and their friends instead of seeking actual patrons.  They can be nice if they choose to be, but often they are a little rude.  Perhaps they are looking to see who's in your company before deciding who is worth their charm.

They do bring in bands or singers on the weekends which are normally quite good and have the side effect of bringing in a crowd.

The food is good, and I keep coming here, so I guess that's something.

All I want in life is a great place to hang out, maybe do a little writing, probably do a little reading, and enjoy a nice adult beverage. You can imagine my pleasant surprise in finding The Bottle Room.

The added bonus of scotch and cognac flights just about threw me into a paroxysm of joy.

Part shop part cafe part bar part fireside lounge, the space is inviting and the staff will give you as much attention as you like. I usually claim a space at the bar, get my drink, and put my nose in my book. Like Starbucks only 100 times better. The bartenders are friendly and very knowledgeable about most everything except why a young woman in today's society still reads 800+ page library books for fun.

I kid.

Tell them what you are looking for in taste and they will give you wine. Or beer. Or liquor. The Bottle Room also has a cigar humidor, but I imagine you must avail yourself of their patio space to really enjoy that purchase.

The food is tasty, but, to me, not your filling restaurant fare. Think bar food - appetizer, small plates, light meals - but instead of greasy fried townie bar food, it's delicious, scratch, what I like to call "grocery gourmet"...the kind of food you'd find at a Byerly's or Lund's or Whole Foods cafe. That's the only way I can think to describe it.

Lineville road is coming along as a corridor of business, but The Bottle Room is still in that weird just-outside-of-populated-town space. They have live music on Friday and Saturday nights, though I personally have not experienced this.