Our critic digs into some restaurants’ recent wine service pitfalls.

Well-executed restaurant wine service is a filter that deters flawed wines from flowing into guests' glasses. At times, it may seem pretentious and drawn out... Well-executed restaurant wine service ...

Wine service at most chain restaurants, from coffee shops to upscale steak houses to handsome edifices with chic themes, is woeful.Not only are prices generally too high, the choice of wines we're ...

In contemporary mythology, the sommelier is an unsmiling, self-important type whose role in life is to embarrass and anger as many restaurant customers as possible in the course of an evening. It's ...

For anyone who cares about wine, buying it in a restaurant can be thrilling, fraught with missteps or somewhere in between. In Los Angeles, we’re lucky enough to have world-class wine service at such ...