Thief Wine Shop & Bar

Worth trying, but my experiences have been mediocre as far as service goes. Flights don't seem to be pared with much thought or explanation - I guess that's my biggest beef.  Decent bottle selection, but prices are better elsewhere.  It's cool that it's in the public market.

Good location smack dab in the middle of the Public Market. Great wine list with a couple of happy hour choices. It gets a little busy. I was there on a Friday after work and there were people waiting when we left.

Oh, and it's also a store so you can buy a bottle instead of sitting at the bar. Nice selection and a good stock of $10 bottles.

Okay, I need to set up this review with a little story:

So, I'm from Minneapolis, and last weekend we decided to visit a friend in Milwaukee. After a disastrous and trashy night at Summerfest (seriously... does every high schooler smoke cigarettes now? And have to take Instagrams of them doing so?) we were hungover/maybe a little drunk still. Whatever, it's the weekend. Our friend wanted to show us the very cool Public Market, so we stopped in. I head to the bathroom quick and next thing I know, my friends are ordering bottles of wine at Thief. None of us are big wine drinkers other than when we were abroad, so this comes as a bit of a surprise to me... but I order a glass of champagne and just roll with it. I have a weird thing for champagne, okay?

This would have been just a weird little 10:00 AM whim if it had not been for the EXCELLENT service we received. So, they don't have champagne, but the bartender suggests a similar cava, which was delicious. She suggested a petite sirah for the bottle drinkers. It doesn't stop there- she starts explaining the wine and what we were tasting- not snobbily but in our terms. I totally appreciated the way she treated us- like we wanted to learn, not like we were some college aged idiots who drink only Keystone. Mad props to her.

Not even being a wine drinker, I would totally suggest checking out this place to anyone with any interest in wine.