Red Bar Winery & Bistro Grand Opening
Red Bar Winery & Bistro opens Friday (Photo by Mr. T in DC, r c photographic).
The Red Bar Winery & Bistro is having it’s grand opening on Friday May 22. We are going to have dinner specials and giveaways for the next week to celebrate. We will also be at the Elgin Wine Festival on Saturday.
Please stop by and see how the place has turned out. We are very proud of it and want to share it with everyone.
See you on Friday or soon.
Jim and Doris Canfield
Red Bar Winery & Bistro
EDIT:
Download a flyer for the grand opening event (pdf).
Red Bar Winery & Bistro’s location is:
74 S. Grove Ave.
Elgin, IL 60120
Tel: 847-695-1659
That’s downtown Elgin near where the Crocker Theater used to be.
Hours:
Mon.-Thur. 11pm to 11pm
Fri.-Sat. 11pm to 1am
Description from the flyer:
We are happy to offer a unique winery/restaruant experience in downtown Elgin. If your plans call for an intimate dinner for two or a celebration for many, Red Bar’s excellent selection of wines and exceptional cuisine await you. Come in and sit by the fireplace, put your feet up and enjoy the… Art of Wine and Food
Our Bistro is proud to serve wines from many of the superior growing regions and wineries in the world including California, France, Spain, Australia and Italy. Red Bar Winery’s own brands include Fox River, Red Bar, Artist Series and our Historic Series. Join us for our wine appreciation classes, wine making workshops or wine and food pairing events.
Red Bar Winery offers:
- Wine Appreciation Classes
- Create your own “Private Label”
- Wine Making Workshops
- Free Wine ‘Tastings “ Daily
- Wine And Food Pairing Events
- Enjoy your own Wine Making Experience
- Bottle wine, create your private label and store it at the winery.
The grand opening is this Friday at 5 p.m. Bring your coworkers with you!
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I really want this place to do great but they NEED a website. I tried to go there Sunday for dinner and they were closed. Maybe if they had a website I would’ve know that. Listing hours on the door would be helpful too.
They were taking email addresses in their raffle at the Wine Fest so hopefully they’re planning a website. Red Bar’s Sauvigon Blanc was my favorite at the fest so that makes me think this place has potential.
They have a website: http://redbarwinery.com/
It says they are open on Sunday but maybe after the fest they needed to take a day off.
Hmmmm well maybe they should put their website on their flyers abd the promo materials they were giving out at the Wine Festival.
I got it off of a business card that I grabbed at the fest. Maybe it wasn’t on all of them for some reason.
Anyway…thanks for the website! I plan to check Red Bar out this week. I’m all about supporting the local places instead of the corporate chains on Randall Road.
Agree with the review of Casa Lara. Worse than Jalapenos. http://elginite.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=688#p688
Same menu, same price, portions are half of Jalapenos. I always left Jalapenos stuffed to the gills, downed with decent Margaritas. Luckily we asked for another basket of chips and salsa before our order arrived so that I had something to eat after dinner!
The waitress was also the bartender and pay phone answerer. Good
for her we were the only dinner patrons at 7pm on a Saturday night (always plenty of bar patrons).
On the plus side at least the dining area TV’s weren’t on (we were asked if we wanted them on). Note to restaurants: I don’t go to sit down restaurants to watch TV. I try to avoid restaurants that have TV’s in their dining area.
WE won’t go back to Casa Lara - ever.
I have yet to find a great Mexican cuisine restaurant in Elgin, which is really quite amazing given the population of Mexicans in Elgin.
P.S. I posted on this thread because I don’t have to log in here unlike the thread on Casa Lara. What’s up with that?
Paul, we can allow non-registered users to post comments on the blog side because WordPress, the blog software we’re using has a good spam filter. If we allowed non-registered users to post to the forum, which doesn’t have a good spam filter, it would be unmanageable.
If you want to post to the forum though you should just register. It takes literally ten seconds, and you have nothing to lose.
Went to the Red Bar for lunch with a frend. Panini’s, Soup, Chocolates and Cupcakes were great! My friend and I each did a sampling of Whites and Reds. The owner, (Jim, I believe) couldn’t have been more helpful and engaging. The wines were awesome. I do hope this place does well. We need more places like this in Elgin!
I went there last night for dinner. It was excellent. I had the Neopolitian pizza and my wife had the scallops. Both were fantastic. Cupcake and chocolates, along with a couple of dessert wines for dessert were delicious too. Great wines and Jim was very helpful in helping us choose wines. He also gave us a tour and explanation of the wine making process. We will be back for sure.
My husband, daughter and I went to celebrate a birthday on Wed. July 1st-I wanted to try this new restaurant in Elgin and could not have been happier with what we found.
Open and airy with exposed brick, colorful paitings, high tin ceilings with friendly wait staff. Both Jim and Doris took time to come up to our table and chat. We felt very welcome…
The food was great-we shared all four appetizers, the carmelized onion & goat cheese thin pizza and several glasses of wine.
We will definitely return!
Glad to hear the many positive reviews for Red Bar Winery!
My Husband and I went for dinner last week and I have to say that we loved it! The food was wonderful. The service was great too. Everyone was very friendly. The manager that was working was very nice and stopped by to see how everything was and gave us some free tastings of the ‘Red Bar’ wines. We thought that was a nice touch. And she had Jim the owner give us a tour of the back part of the place where he makes his wines. Very interesting, love that, nice touch! We will be back!