Best restaurant in Ocala. I had no idea Ocala was capable of having such a swanky establishment. If you're accustomed to fine dining.....this is as close as you will get in north central florida. The drinks were strong ( plus) and our server was amazing. He actually sliced my lamb for me ( which was amazing). I recommend the crab cakes as an appetizer. For dessert, i wanted the bananas foster but they were out of bananas. So he did a strawberry version of the dish instead. It was deliciously paired with vanilla ice cream. All in all, i loved this place. Very upscale and worth every penny!
Review Source:We stopped in Ocala on our way to St. Petersburg overnight. Â Looked on Yelp for Wine Bars. Â This was a perfect pick. Â Great wine, great food and great service. Â Wish it was our neighborhood restaurant!!! Â Next time we are in town, this is a must. Â Make reservations! Â it's popular.... :)
Review Source:I went to the Cuvee last night and I have to say that this restaurant is the nicest  and only WINE bar in Ocala.  That have an amazing wine selection and you can buy a wine card when you go there and walk around the restaurant and find a wine that you like and insert your card and get a taste or a glass of wine from the auto feeder.  Fantastic time
Review Source:Nice people, good wine and great food. It was our first visit and we really enjoyed ourselves. We went early before the crowd which was a good idea since it was our first time and we needed to find out how they do things. The bartender waited on us and we asked a lot of questions. He was very nice, very helpful and impressed my son with his knowledge of the wines. They have 104 botles for tastings. It was great fun.
Review Source:What a fun and delicious experience! Â The wine list is extensive and Jesse, our server, went out of his way to provide excellent service. The decor is beautiful. Â The food is amazing ... I think the gold standard of a restaurant is how well they make their crab cakes ... And the crab cakes here are probably the best I've ever had.
Review Source:Stopped in here while visiting my folks. Â Definitely the nicest place I've been to in Ocala (and this is based on my having lived there for several years). Â Very large wine selection but the prices were ridiculous! Â The food was delicious and the servers will gladly help you pair a wine with your meal if you aren't sure what to order.
All in all a great place to go if you want to have some nice (but expensive/overpriced) wine and a good meal.
Nice setting. Very good selection of wine plus a full bar for those liking options.
The owner was holding a private party in a room which contained some of the feature wine options which limited our access to all of the possibilities.
The evening would have been better if we could access all wine options.
Service was good.
Food was good. They enjoy using salt in their preparation. If you are not a huge fan of salt.. Let them know early and often!!! (I don't use salt).
Good Menu and good appetizer options.
Made arrangements to have our wine club's holiday dinner here. None of us had been here before. We were gobsmacked by the wonderfulness of this venue. Our waiter Jay was a prince among men. He was always there to help us with absolutely anything. We had a last minute cancellation, and he didn't blink an eye. We had planned to have some small plates and take advantage of their wine dispensing system to sample a number of wines. But it was so much more. Â Everything we tasted was exquisite, and we learned a lot about wine. Â This is a beautiful restaurant with an amazing wine selection and outstanding customer service. Certainly woth every penny! Â We will all be back!
Review Source:Went there for my bday while in town for a wedding. We had a private room and our server, Dana, was awesome! Â I was surprised to see such a place in Ocala. Great concept! The atmosphere is cool and hip and being able to taste until you find your perfect wine is really fun. It adds up quick, but it's worth it. The food was good, but I expected a little better given the feel of the place. They need to refine the plates a bit. Â It sounds great and is probably better than anything else in town, but the plates could use more of a chef's touch - not a cook's touch. Â We had a blast and I will definitely go again next time I'm in town.
Review Source:Cuvée Wine & Bistro has an interesting business plan, which combines two different concepts: a restaurant, and self-service wine dispensers.
It occupies part of a former bank building, but has been redecorated in a pleasant, trendy way. High booth backs keep the noise level down, although the old farts next to us were quite rowdy. Each dining room is surrounded by rows of wine dispensers, some refrigerated for the whites, others not, for reds. There are well over 100 selections, available in 1, 2.5 or 5 ounce pours. As with other such places, you load a card with money, and then it's debited as you use the machines.
We arrived at 6:30 and things were fairly quite, but the restaurant soon filled up. What's interesting about the success of the place is that it doesn't seem to be driven by all the wine dispensers that surround the dining rooms. We saw few other patrons wandering around to try different wines with each course. Instead, most either let the waiter bring them a glass of something, or ordered a bottle for the table. Still, being surrounded by all those glowing bottles probably boosts wine sales. I couldn't see the bar from where we sat, so I don't know how much tasting traffic originated there.
The food was mostly very good. A cheese sampler plate offered a nice variety, and my clam appetizer was delicious. Salads were fine, and the steaks Linda and Martin had were good quality. I liked my eggplant napoleon, too. Service was excellent: attentive yet not rushing us.
The wines are more fairly priced than at the other self-serve wine place I've been to. Unfortunately, of four high end wines we tried (Tapestry, a Nuits St. Georges, a Pommard, and Dominus) all were spoiled by having been open a long, long time. As evidenced by the strong geranium smell, the dispensing system can't keep them good forever. Our waiter cheerfully credited us for the wines we complained about, but they should have been removed, rather than left for the next sucker. None of the lower priced selections had this problem, and we tried many. Best QPR (quality to price ratio) was the Bell Petite Sirah.
It was fun to try small tastes of many different wines with our food. We all agreed we would return.
Dined at Cuvee for the second time. This was a very pleasant dining experience. Staff were all very attentive,but yet not intrusive. Menu was varied & interesting. Entrees each have a slight twist to make it different from most other restaurants. Wine list is exceptional. Food ,service & ambience all above average.Well worth a visit.
jerseytish
Ocala has very few really NICE restaurants and this is at the top of the list. Ambiance is great and the food is even "greater"! Â Customer service plus. Â Truly intimate setting, they even have a fire place! Private dining rooms if you have a group. Â I have eaten at many restaurants all over the world and even if you do not drink wine you can enjoy the evening! Full bar and unique wine choices from all over. Â You select your wine and the amount you want with your wine card. Make it a MUST go to!
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