View from Pure Wine's patio |
The Pure Wine Cafe is one of many places that we enjoyed, but rarely found ourself revisiting.
Now is the time to eat there again -- especially if you can try their new patio in the fleeting nights of the year when we can eat outside.
Pure Wine started as a tiny place on Main Street in Ellicott City. Small plates. Good wines. But such a tiny space that they didn't take reservations, and it often took second place to restaurants where we knew that we could get parking and a seat.
Now, they've blown through a wall and spread upstairs into a second dining room and a stone patio overlooking Main Street. It's beautiful space and -- like the new patio at Portalli's -- a real reason to explore downtown Ellicott City.
The patio. |
We missed some sliders that looked terrific, but we ate well. A salad with spinach, peaches and goat cheese. Some fish tacos. And a terrific charcuterie plate headlined by salami and an amazing blue cheese. The cheese was creamy with a blue flavor, but milder so that it went well with everything else on the plate.
Sitting outside gives a new feel to Pure Wine. You overlook the Old Columbia Pike intersection. It's almost a city feel. The entire new space is modern. A sleek bathroom. A wine cellar built into the bedrock with glass walls so that you can see inside as you walk upstairs. A new second-floor dining room where 10 people were watching a pair of guitar players perform while we ate. With original bar on the first floor, you now have three really different options -- and they take reservations.
When we were there, the Pure Wine folks were talking about heaters to extend the season. It's all new. They're figuring it out.
1 comment:
We ate at Pure Wine a couple weeks ago just before doing the Ellicott City Ghost Tour. The food was very good and the service was also good, but they need to do something about the acoustics in the upstairs dining room. We couldn't hear each other across the table at all. It definitely impaired our enjoyment. As a side note, the Ghost Tour was excellent.
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