Wine bar

And yeah, and you touch on wine, which of course is so prevalent in the film.

How does the sort of study of wine bars tell the story of Sao Paulo that other more conventional portraits might not?

Yeah.

Sorry.

We... are both live here in Homewood her son is actually in our son's class but she sent me a message and she said who is Cole's I think she said agent or who sets up Cole's speaking engagement so and I was like did a hand raise and I said me party of one um so it was kind of comical to be your go-between um to try to get that all lined up but yes I think it was like a new it's a new organization here in Birmingham like real estate people yes connected to Auburn and you went and spoke and yeah

it's a good group good questions good time but that pushed us back a little bit and we went to do we met for dinner after that Gian Marco's Wine Bar which is your fave

Well, I like it.

So you had that.

And so it kind of worked out well that I finished up with doing all that and you finished up at the same time.

So you swung back by the house, grabbed me, and I was like, let's not go anywhere far away because that just takes up more time.

So we just went down the street to Gianmarco's Wine Bar, which is so fun.

If you are a...

One of my best friends is Guy Rawlings, who's a, he's a teacher at George Brown now, but he's a chef around Toronto, and we, you know, we had sort of conversations about bringing someone like that in to, you know, make an interesting food program rather than just, you know, burgers and fries or a hotdog stand or something.

Um, but I- you referenced the place in London, I forget the name of it, that had, like, a v- a wine bar with, like, a really small counter with pick-up food service only.

Oh, yeah.

You know, we talked about all sorts of models like that.

Gordon's Wine Bar.

Yeah.

Uh, by Embankment Station.

So-

And this truly came out of, um, a lot of people who are already involved in Beacon, but people who are saying that they, they have an appetite to network with more, uh, neighbors, more business owners, um, and then wanna get to know their community.

Uh, if you remember in April, we did a community mixer called Show Up at, uh, Estello Vino and Wine Bar.

Uh-

Yeah

I won't wait in line for that.

My second one, so Wine Bar George is, like, a sit-down kind of wine tasting type place.

They have small plates, but they also have something called The Basket at Wine Bar George, which offers items that you can get that are, like, made to be on the go.

So they have, like-

Oh

that.I kind of forgot this existed 'cause it's not-

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... too much of a ta- Like, I've eaten at Wine Bar, I've seen this window-

Yeah.

Do you guys like any other types of gumbo? Like Padre's Wine Bar, they do a duck gumbo.

Are there any other places that do interesting variations of it?

Well, I like Lucio's because they do the gumbo's herbs.

And just everything related to dating and relationships.

And if you are dating, you could, uh, and you live in the Denver area, go down to the Kate's Wine Bar, um, just off of Main Street in downtown Littleton, and tell them you heard about Kate's from the Dating Days podcast.

And it's a really great place for first dates, and I've taken plenty.

I call them meet and greets.

Yeah

...

so if you're in the Denver area, though, and you're dating, go down to Kate's Wine Bar just off of Main Street, downtown Littleton.

Tell them you heard about Kate's from the Dating Base podcast.

And, and I mean, we've just been having a lot of fun, to be honest with you.

Um, we opened a sister restaurant next door called The Wine Bar.

That is an à la carte menu, but the great thing about it is it has access to the, you know, 40,000-bottle wine list that we have at the restaurant, which, you know, is just some- It, it's so, it's such a deep wine list that it's amazing to have people that can stop in for a glass or stop in for a bottle, whatever it may be.

Next door, in addition to the folks that are coming in to, to have the, the dinner experience at, at Emeril's.

It's, you know, it's multiple hours and, um, it's the way I like to eat and, and the way that Dad likes to eat.

And so it's really what we wanted to return the restaurant to, and that's what our goal has been the last couple of years.

Uh, and E.J., a point to make is, uh, is if you're coming to New Orleans on short notice, uh, because as you mentioned, you only have 12 tables at Emeril's, but you still wanna have an Emeril's experience, The Wine Bar is your secret menu.

Uh, I really enjoyed my experience there.