The Dudley's Wine Bar and Tap Room

This place has a great location on historic Mercer St in DT Dripping Springs. My wife and I received a warm welcome as soon as we entered. The wine selection is awesome, not the same for beer, I wished they had a greater selection of local brews. The atmosphere is very friendly and the service was very good.  We had the meat and cheese combo plate and it was a big portion and very tasty. I'm a fan!

We were totally bummed by our experience after having seen all of the great reviews on Yelp.

We went in and were immediately overwhelmed with HOW LOUD the place was. It is a tiny old house and it was dominated by several large loud parties plus a musician in the corner.

It was super confusing when we went in. No one greeted us and we could not find a server. Bewildered, we finally just found a table and sat down. And waited. And waited. Finally hubby went to the bar and had to interrupt one of the loud groups in order to get to the bartender, who then told him that we had to order at the bar. How would we have known that? We finally got our drinks, which were fine, but also ordered a cheese plate. It was disappointing. Very little cheese with a few crackers, and appeared thrown together. We didn't see any other food options.

Not once did a server come by to check on us, or offer us any water, or even see if we wanted additional drinks. We had a hard time even getting the check.

Hopefully this was just an anomaly, but it was a really poor experience. Try the Barber Shop instead - friendlier service and much quieter.

This is a great place...I'm very happy they set up shop in Dripping Springs. We stopped by after having a beer at the Barber Shop (bar) next door and glad we checked out the wine bar. Great live music, awesome owners (at least I think they were the owners), perfect wine recommendations, friendly atmosphere and overall good times. When you're there, order a buffalo burger from the food truck right outside if they're open - delicious. I wouldn't even make a recommendation on improving the place, it's already perfect. My other recommendation is to take the Dripping Springs taxi to and from your place - the taxi worked out great. Yep, we'll be back.