Lubo Wine Tasting Room

$5 wine flights? No complaints there at all -- except if it takes an hour to get your order because there are no tasting glasses available. I felt a little improvisation was in order there for the sake of customer service. I've been to this restaurant before on various busy nights and the service can be called hit or miss at best. As for food, the steak nachos, orange shrimp,and burgers are pretty tasty.

Last night I ordered the baked cheese appetizer and seriously considered sending it back. The menu decscribed it as Camembert cheese that could be served with either roasted mushrooms or grilled fruit and honey. I chose the latter and what arrived to my table was a block of cheese, that while yummy, had an almost undectable amount of honey and 4 paper thin slices of badly burned pears.

A few upgrades in service and this place could be a great spot to grab some afterwork drinks with friends.

One of the few dining venues open until 11 p.m. on a Friday in the area.  We came in at 9:45 and were seated by a teenage-appearing host (felt like I was at Applebees) who then forgot to tell our server that we had arrived.  One server noted our presence, but I guess she forgot too.  Waited a solid 10 minutes for anyone to take our wine order and then just left.  The minute we stood up to leave, the host darted to our table to clean up our places (hmmm).  I did look over the menu.  No vegan option, lousy pescetarian options, no vegan pescetarian options, no dairy-free meat options, one option for a  gluten-free pizza crust and I guess that brings them into the 21st century.  Nothing new since the last time I visited (over a month ago) and nothing exciting just to go with wine.  Lackluster service, atmosphere and menu.

A work related function yesterday was my first experience at Lubo's.  The food was pretty good and the by the glass wine selection was pretty decent, which it should be since the entire concept of the business is geared around wine.

I ended up choosing the daily lunch special which was a grilled chicken sandwich with avocado and lump crab meat.  I was intrigued by the unusual combination but it worked quite well together.  Color me impressed.

What was not impressive was the amount of time it took for the food the come out of the kitchen.  We were a group of fifteen so I can understand a slight delay but it took well over an hour for our food to come out after we ordered.  Unacceptable and judging by the trend in Yelp reviews, this is a fairly regular occurrence.  Not good.

Also, never sit upstairs when it is screeching hot outside.  They have a number of sky lights in the ceiling and the sunlight just overwhelms the meager AC.  All of us were sweating uncomfortably during the long wait for our food.  Just don't do it.