Wine Cellar Restaurant

i have never had a bad meal in the three times I have been here while visiting from out of town, the Service is very nice and they serve a great selection of Wines. Their food can be shared with friends or you can pick your own Entree or App, but I think you will be satisfied with their wide range of menu, not to mention great Salads and Cheeses paired with your wines.  I really enjoyed the small plates like Tapas style where you can get a little for the buck and get full.  Great place to catch up with friends as well. Definately be back again!

Good food, but not as good as the prices suggest.  If you want to drop a chunk of change on a worthy meal, hit the Corn Exchange.  However, that being said, this IS a nice place. Never had a bad meal, and they have a lovely wine list, but again, it's just that the portion and price for what you get is a little off.

Slowest Service in the West!

The good:
The food, what we got to eat of it, was pretty good, especially the mushroom "sachets".   The menu is interesting and varied, and the chef is obviously trying to create new dishes based on Dakota ingredients.  Their wine list is very impressive, especially considering how scarce good wine is in Rapid City in general.

The bad:
The menu is divided into "small plates" and "entrees".  The small plates are *small*, as in 2 or 3 bites max, and range from $6 to $11.  So if you choose to eat an all-small-plates dinner, you'll need to order 3-4 per person, making for a $40/person dinner, not including wine.  While some of the small plates were quite good (sachets, green goddess salad, duck sausage), some were purfunctory and bland (risotto, duck fat potatoes), or downright inedible (bison skewer).

The ugly:
We arrived at 6:30.  We ordered one round of small plates, planning to order more depending on what we liked.  And then we waited.  And waited, and waited, and waited.  It took 45 minutes for the salad and the bread & dip to arrive, and then the dip wasn't what we'd been told it was.  The remaining appetizers took another 30 minutes to arrive.  The server came out multiple times to apologize for the delay, but not once did she offer us bread, crackers, or anything.  She did try to sell us more wine, though.  

By the time we left it was 9:30, and we were still hungry.  We had to go to Armadillo's afterwards.

There's far more to running a good restaurant than cooking good food, and Wine Cellar doesn't have it.  This place deserves to go out of business.