Barrel Wine and Cheese

Cute spot with sidewalk service on the nice days. Good selection of food and wine which makes it perfect for snacks or meals. Friendly service. Excellent happy hour value.

An amazing place to visit when you have work. It was so low-key and they had a wide variety of wine choices from different regions, cocktails, a delicious cheese plate that had three types of cheeses, salami, olives, pickles, and crackers and bread. Our cheese plate was perfect combination to the wine that we had. I definitely recommend this place if you have time, you want a cool place to go and chill with family or friends this parking lot across the street but unfortunately it does not location does not accurate parking so you will have to pay full price.Service was great.

This was the cutest, most romantic place ever!!!! Had the best experience here with my best friend. We stopped in before going to a show at Laugh Factory & got a table right away. They had an assortment of cheeses, appetizers & wine that all sounded amazing. We chose the port wine cheese & a white wine - we loved them both. The inside is dark & on the quieter side, so it's perfect for an affordable date night that feels fancy and upscale. Our service was great, couldn't recommend this place enough & can't wait to go back!!!!

We came here after a movie at Landmark. Very intimate on the inside with a cool bar and small tables. The staff was extremely nice and we had some really good wine by the glass. For food, we ordered the three cheese board with port wine cheese, burrata, and manchego. The burrata definitely needed salt or something from the board to go with it but there were plenty of other snacks included which was nice. We also got the Brussels sprout hummus which was equally as good. I'd recommend they get different bread for the cheese boards but I'd definitely come back because others had cool looking cocktails as wel!

I wanted to love this place. All of the reviews and the influencer hype really built it up. I walked in and was immediately not impressed. The staff was sarcasticwith us and not helpful when picking out wine. Within 20 minutes of sitting down we saw a rat run across the dining room and immediately closed outout and left without finishing our terribly cheap bottle of wine. I will never return.

Only went for drinks and sat at bar. Decent cocktail selection, and restaurant began to fill up shortly after we arrived. Lighting is very dark though and moody.

Pretty good date spot! They have a really nice selection of wines and the food looks pretty good even though I didn't have any. From the others sitting next to me, I was very tempted to order. One downside to it is that it was pretty dark inside. They kind of gave off hookah bar vibes. I sat at the bar and the bartender seemed nice a little quiet though.

Came here with my boyfriend on a whim, we had walked by a number of times and thought we'd give it a try.Overall, I would say that Barrel looks good, but underwhelms. The Cheese board is something that I could pull together myself with cold cuts and package cheese from Mariano's, the cheese in the middle of the board was very watery and soggy, making a mess of the rest of the board the hummus was unremarkable as was the avocado toast which felt like it was served on bread also from Mariano's.Service was super patchy - there appeared to be only one server for the entire restaurant, including a large private party upstairs. There were two bussers, but they weren't serving. For the price point and for the food to match the ambience/decor, the kitchen and service need to up their game.

Found this place on Instagram through one of those random Chicago foodie realz. Looked fancy, chill and something different. We are old, so our date nights are more like date late afternoons that were planned the Monday before.The interior of the place really is adorable. Vintage chic with lots of tables, sexy velvet chairs, exposed brick and a fireplace.The wine list, although plentiful, seems disorganized. It appears that there were cases of unsold wine in a distributor's warehouse and that stock was sold a good price to the owners who were starting out in a new business. Hardly any varietals from Napa and only one (a mediocre white) from the Columbia Valley. Nothing from Willamette (notoriously amazing Pinot Noir), Walla Walla or even the east coast. We picked a Malbec bottle to share - our server plunged the corkscrew directly into the foil, picked up our glasses to pour and then recorked the bottle. I mean, listen - this wine service 101. The wine was pretty cold too. It wasn't chilled - but it was colder than room temperature. Which was weird, considering there is a gorgeous wine rack by the bar. The menu was okay - again, just seemed disorganized. Lots of salads and appetizers (randomly lots of Avocado options? What is your food cost to afford avocados 7 days a week?). We chose a cheese plate and the Olive Tapenade. We got to pick our cheese and we were also asked if we wanted to add meat to the plate (the only thing listed on the menu was corned beef - what?!). Our server offered prosciutto, after explaining there were a lot of misprints on the menu (again...what?!). We happily accepted the upcharge. Spoiler alert - we never got our prosciutto. Both the tapenade and cheese plate said it came with toasted bread. In my naivety, I assumed artesian bread crostinis. Um no...it was literally toasted wheat bread. At least it was cut in a diagonal. The tapenade was also serves with taco chips (for the third time...what?!).The menu, service and vibe just didn't match the amazing interior. I expected something just a little more upscale and knowledgeable. Maybe it was just an off day - it was Sunday, after all. I'm not sure if I would come back here on purpose again, but we did have fun and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to friends - after severely managing expectations, of course.

We stopped by before dinner. Their cocktail menu is interesting and we found a couple good ones. The Black Magic and Elegant Dude were fabulous. Hummus was also great!