Get an Epicurean’s Buzz at Town Square’s The Grape
Where: 6599 Las Vegas Boulevard South
[map],
89119
Across from the mammoth movie theater at the south-south-Strip Town Square open-air shopping mall, you’ll find The Grape, one of Las Vegas’ most sophisticated and, dare we say, reliably good wine bars. Because we’ve found Town Square a confusing place to get around, look for the big Rave Motion Pictures sign on the west side of the building (towards I-15) and park there.
The Grape offers numerous great ways to sample its lengthy wine list, which is helpfully organized for the wine-wary into eight, easy-to-navigate categories. Numbers 1 through 6 take you from light-bodied, fruity whites all the way through to the full-bodied reds with “intense, berry taste.” Category 7 includes sweet wines while Number 8 features sparkling wines and champagne.
All wines by the glass are available in either tasting-size portions, ranging from $5 to $9 or full-pour glasses starting at $9 and going all the way up to $18. Cheeses, charcuterie small plates and desserts are featured on a concise but diverse menu, and prices there range from $6 to $25.
Happy hour is offered from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, and features $5 glasses of wine and $2 sliders. On Thursdays, free wine tastings are held from 6 to 8 p.m.
The last time we were there, we ordered a flight of three tastings of red – one light-bodied, one medium-bodied and one full-bodied, all recommended by our server – and set about evaluating our selections. We ended up loving one of them and each ordered three more glasses of it over the course of the evening, which also included sampling a cheese plate, a shrimp-and-crab Louis salad and a perfectly delicious (although petite) tenderloin steak sandwich served with bleu cheese sauce.
Of course, we should have ordered a bottle instead and saved ourselves some cash. Maybe we’d have been prompted to stop imbibing when the bottle was empty, too, and saved ourselves a pounding headache the next day. Ah, well. Lesson learned.
Through the month of August, The Grape is highlighting Chilean wines and offering daily tastings for $16, as well as a special Chilean food-and-wine-pairing menu for $35. It’s not on the printed menu, so ask your server about it.
[Photo: Vincent Ma]
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