Wiki's Wine Dive & Grill

I finally created an account on here just to review Wiki's. I have been here about seven or eight times now and I LOVE this place. It's my new favorite in town.

The atmosphere is great, and the service has been wonderful most of the times I have been. Servers have been attentive and friendly.

My favorite dishes: short ribs sandwich, crab sandwich, wild boar pasta, filet mignon, salami pizzetta

Dishes my friends have had that they've liked: fried chicken, scallops, shrimp and grits (brunch menu)

Dishes I probably won't order again: veggie burger, lamb (only the entree though - the appetizer is really good)

The most disappointing dish is the bread pudding. It is really dry and dense! I hope they fix this recipe because I love bread pudding. The other desserts are good though. Love the mango sorbet. Also loved the carrot cake but I don't know if that's on the menu anymore.

In terms of the drinks: the wine list is quite extensive and has a lot of good choices. The white and red sangrias are both really yummy, especially if you like sweeter sangrias. They also sell bottles of wine retail, if you like one that you can't find in the stores around here.

Wiki's is on the expensive side, but I've had such great experiences there that it's worth it for me!

I'm sad to say that I did not have a good experience here. The issue for me came down to service.
Starting off, I was with a group of 6, and it was a Thursday around 7:30pm. The server, who was very polite and outgoing, seemed to take a while to get to us. While she was taking our drink order, she was distracted by another server who handed her a salad before she could get my drink order. She left with the salad to another table and it was around 20 minutes before she came back. When she did come back, I ordered a tasting of a rose'.... The tasting took 20 minutes to arrive. The excuse was that it needed to be chilled. This isn't the servers fault, but I'm a bit surprised that a wine bar doesn't have all of its wines prepared as its a summer evening and a cold rose' would have been nice. When I did get the tasting, I ordered the same wine with my meal. About 10 minutes later the server came back and told me that they had to chill the wine again. I canceled my wine because I wasn't about to wait for another 20 minutes for my wine. I opted for my now room temperature water as my sole beverage.
When my food came, I had ordered a ceasar salad with a shrimp appetizer. The server took it upon herself to add chicken to my salad, chicken that I had not ordered. When I told her this, her reply was "its free chicken to make up for the wine" So, now I had to remove the chicken that I didn't want from a rather standard ceasar salad. The shrimp was good.

Essentially my issue is with the service and how they are disorganized, unattentive, and unapologetic.

I had such high hopes for this place as the restaurant itself is absolutely beautiful and looks so high class!

But in the end, they failed.

My husband and I went for dinner tonight (Friday) had at most a 20 min wait. Rosa was our waitress and she was absolutely amazing! Can't say enough good things about her, she was knowledgable in all the dishes and the wines and beers that we would mention. Husband had chicken Caesar salad and he said it was "ok", I had the Kobe beef burger w/blue cheese and truffle fries and it was HUGE and awesome, I ending up sharing it with my husband. For dessert we shared a piece of chocolate mousse cake and it went great with the wine. I was hesitant to come here because of some of the reviews but we were pleasantly surprised and loved our experience tonight. Thanks again to Rosa!!