The Broadway

The Broadway is a wine bar. If you want to visit a wine bar and learn about wine as well as find a great bottle this is the place to go. Although not a restaurant, they do make amazing appetizers and the wine dinners are very special. Angus has a great palette and has yet to steer me wrong. It is nice to visit a place like this which knows what it is and what it is not.

I've not tried any of the food, it's probably decent.

The wine selection. Top notch. They know what they are doing. They pack a lot into this little space, I could walk out with any bottle in there. The lady at the bar is great to talk to, and Angus is great. They will pick you out something good, and will pop it open and share it with you if you want. If I lived anywhere close, I would be a daily regular. I heart this place hard.

Ai yai yai. First it was the Broadway Wine & Deli, then they added catering, then, a grocery store. But downtown Yewjean entered a freefall, and so they closed the grocery store, ended the deli, and now, sadly, the wine is gone as is the whole darn place. Boo.

Don't get me started on the problems, perils, and politics of the DTE sitch. Suffice it to say, Broadway was one of the good ones. Back in the day, I could walk to work, fill my cup with organic joe for $0.75 at the Broadway, and pick up a tube of toothpaste at Tiffany's on the way home. I have to wonder when we ran Whole Foods out of town for fear of them "stealing customers" away from other, locally-owned businesses, did we really help things? Or, it is a classic case of cutting off our nose to spite our face?

It doesn't matter, I suppose. We can cling to the hope of Voodoo, and a remodeled Centre Court building, and maybe, someday, we'll get the heart of the city back. When we do, I hope that the Broadway's a part of the renaissance.