13.5% Wine Bar

Location: Hampden

Cost: moderate

How to get there: car, taxi, walk (if you’re really motivated)

Service: good

          While we love our food, we love a good glass of wine now and then too. Recently, we checked out 13.5% Wine Bar in Hampden. Filled with leather chairs, dark woods, and a wall full of wine bottles, this wine bar has really cool and modern atmosphere.

Although we didn’t eat at 13.5%, they do have a selection of snacks, salads, pizzas, dinners, and desserts. If you’re going with someone who isn’t a fan of wine, they also have an assortment of beers and other cocktails.
On our visit to 13.5%, we weren’t quite sure what to order to drink. Both being 21, we are not connoisseurs of wine quite yet. Because we couldn’t make up our minds, what seemed to be the most logical decision at the time was for us each to get a flight of wine. One of us ordered a flight of white wines and another ordered a flight of sparkling wines. Therefore, we each got three 3 oz. glasses. If you're wondering, a normal glass of wine is 6 oz, so a flight equaled about one and half glasses. The waitress was very kind and explained each of the wines to us. We really enjoyed being able to sit outside and sample each of the wines we ordered. It was a very relaxing way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Just a warning if you end up getting a flight there as well: although you only get 3 oz. in each glass, they put the wine in normal sized wine glasses. Because we sat outside, countless people came over and questioned why we had 6 glasses for the 2 of us. That was slightly embarrassing. Still, getting to sample a few of the wines was totally worth the judgment.

Definitely check 13.5% Wine Bar out!