Now it’s all taps and mason jars.
“Whatever happened to wine bars? … Wine bars were sexy, but the shizzle faded when we all started talking about cocktails. Now everybody’s talking about beer, and the wine bar? No longer cool. Some guy from Craigslist tells you to meet him at a wine bar, you know it’s not going to go well — chances are he’ll show up rocking a leather bomber jacket.” — East Bay Express food editor John Birdsall regarding the un-glamourous state of the new wine bar, in his mostly positive review of Toast in Oakland. We question the usage here of “shizzle,” John. [EBX]
