Came in for a quick glass of wine. It took a minute or two for the bartender to acknowledge us. There were no customers at the bar and 6 people maybe 8 already served at tables (the place seats 50, maybe 75, if you include all seats). He was cleaning or organizing? Who knows, no biggie. Final came over and handed us a menu, came back a few min later, and took our order.This is where it went downhill, we sat, and waited, and waited, and sat. 20 min later no wine in sight. Walked back up to the bar. The bartender, "Darn, I forgot about you". We walked out. It always kills me when an establishment is near empty but they can't seem to muster up mediocre service. And to add insult to injury I think the owner was in the room. Yikes.
Rita
Went with some friends, ordered and paid for waters at $10 the bottle which in my opinion is a ridiculous charge yet my review is not referring to that. My review is based on the fact that one of my friends didn't order by the time the lady owner felt she should've. Owner became rude making a show on my table as if nobody there had ordered drinks increasing her voice with terrible mannerisms. As i told her, if she would've addressed it properly and discreetly with the involved party, it would've been fine but the show she did made me feel embarrassed so I paid for a water i didn't even get to drink as decided to leave as i felt humiliated from her terrible show. Don't go there, owner has no class! She is exactly a "karen - white trailer park trash" and places like that are too low for me
Cynthia Romo
I want to thank Greg and Janet at NABU Wines for hosting our band, Stevie & The HeartRockers and all our family and friends at their wonderful classy Music Venue. The place was packed. Everyone was dancing and singing. Now it’s our favorite place to go! The ambience has such a cool vibe and their clientele is so friendly!! Service is amazing. But most of all their wines and champagne’s are spectacular!We love NABU Wines❤️
Aaron Mitchell
Fantastic venue, the most friendly of owners, Greg and Janet, wonderful people, great wines, and Stevie and the heart rockers were awesome!
Tom Jacob
What a class place! The best wine. The best staff and what a beautiful location. Come out and see us again! Good times!!
Hector Chaparro
The place has a great vibe and excellent service. It’s In a great location and has really good entertainment. The selection of wines is plentiful for anyones Taste! Experience it for yourself. You will not be disappointed!
jeff Howard
If you enjoy your live entertainment in the form of a train wreck, then this sad excuse for a "venue" is what you're looking for. They obviously books only the most awful local bands in all of L.A. One is worse than the last. But the absolute worst just played there called Stevie and the Heartrockers. There aren't enough adjectives to describe how pathetic they are. Good thing this dive sells over-priced wine, because you need to be extremely drunk to face the deplorable screechings of Cynthia Romo. She is awful in ways that haven't even been invented yet.
Brooke Ann
Service: terrible if that bartender rolled her eyes one more time they might have gotten stuck. The owner was too busy pretending he owned a concert venue to check on guests. I literally had to wave my hands over my head to get his attention. WAVE MY HANDS OVER MY HEAD. I would never. I find that behavior repugnant but it was THE ONLY WAY I could close out my tab. Shan’t be returning but I doubt they care. Guess we found the one place that doesn’t need good word of mouth.
BL M
Great local wine bar. Awsome selection of local, small batch wines. Comfortable environment with the main room used for live entertainment and the back room having a more subdued ambiance. Video monitors in the back room show the live entertainment in the front room. Food provided by rotating selection of food trucks.
D. Scott D.
Went to see a cover band. There are tables all around, yet they're situated close to one another which makes navigating from one side of the room to the other a bit challenging once people are seated. And there were more people than table seats, so plenty of milling about.For what is supposed to be a winery, they only have 7 wines available. And since they were each described as being from different parts of California, I was unclear as to if any were from this particular winery.The price per glass was a bit high. There was a single Chardonnay that was $15. The rest started at $22 and went up. No other drinks were offered - so if you felt like changing it up, you couldn't. There is no table service - you have to get your drink from the bar. And the suggested gratuity that pops up on the iPad starts at 18%. Why?? I have to get my own drink and then the bartender does nothing more than pour this overpriced liquid from a bottle to a glass. If there was a mixologist creating a special Old Fashion, that's worth a 20% gratuity. This was not that.That said, there's no cover charge for what seems to be nightly entertainment. Though there is a 2-drink minimum. Personally, I'd rather pay a $10 cover and have a reasonably priced drink, along with some variety. Though the place was packed.There's a lunch truck of sorts out back, and they do offer some good pizza. But it's not part of the winery so that would be a different review. No other munchies or food is offered. Didn't interact with or see anyone but those 2-3 people who poured the wines (I'm avoiding calling them bartenders).My Sangiovese was delicious. But for $23-$24 it should be. And I heard no complaints about the Syrah.Will I go again? They did have a good lineup of music and comedy showing on their calendar, so I'm sure I will. I'll just be aware of the setup.
If you want a place with great atmosphere and amazing wine, you need to check out Nobu Wines. We came for some live entertainment on a Sunday nite and it was the perfect end to the weekend. Will definitely come back for more.
Leslie S.
Was at NABU when the band was very average and very few people listening to music and having wine. The manager came over demanding that we buy wine or soda or give her $10. She was nasty, mean, saying four letters words and then told us to leave and walked behind us till we were out of Nabu. Will never go back again. There are much better places to go and hear music
Paul Flick
This is a wine club. You can buy individual glasses of wine or bottles of wine if you're not in the club but it is quite pricey. I did have a Pinot Noir that was excellent it was $20 and it was a very good poor. My wife had a Chardonnay and I believe that was $15 quite reasonable. There was music that was playing and they were quite good.
Karen S.
Had such an amazing time last night at Nabu. Linda and Friends was an amazing band...perfect atmosphere... the Pinot Noir was outstanding! Looking forward to returning.
Stephanie R.
The ambiance was really nice, music amazing.The prices of the wine was absolutely ridiculous, 29$ for one glass :/ with the wine being mediocre...I'd come here every weekend if i didn't feel taken advantage of with the prices.Staff was wonderful...
Came in for a quick glass of wine. It took a minute or two for the bartender to acknowledge us. There were no customers at the bar and 6 people maybe 8 already served at tables (the place seats 50, maybe 75, if you include all seats). He was cleaning or organizing? Who knows, no biggie. Final came over and handed us a menu, came back a few min later, and took our order.This is where it went downhill, we sat, and waited, and waited, and sat. 20 min later no wine in sight. Walked back up to the bar. The bartender, "Darn, I forgot about you". We walked out. It always kills me when an establishment is near empty but they can't seem to muster up mediocre service. And to add insult to injury I think the owner was in the room. Yikes.
Went with some friends, ordered and paid for waters at $10 the bottle which in my opinion is a ridiculous charge yet my review is not referring to that. My review is based on the fact that one of my friends didn't order by the time the lady owner felt she should've. Owner became rude making a show on my table as if nobody there had ordered drinks increasing her voice with terrible mannerisms. As i told her, if she would've addressed it properly and discreetly with the involved party, it would've been fine but the show she did made me feel embarrassed so I paid for a water i didn't even get to drink as decided to leave as i felt humiliated from her terrible show. Don't go there, owner has no class! She is exactly a "karen - white trailer park trash" and places like that are too low for me
I want to thank Greg and Janet at NABU Wines for hosting our band, Stevie & The HeartRockers and all our family and friends at their wonderful classy Music Venue. The place was packed. Everyone was dancing and singing. Now it’s our favorite place to go! The ambience has such a cool vibe and their clientele is so friendly!! Service is amazing. But most of all their wines and champagne’s are spectacular!We love NABU Wines❤️
Fantastic venue, the most friendly of owners, Greg and Janet, wonderful people, great wines, and Stevie and the heart rockers were awesome!
What a class place! The best wine. The best staff and what a beautiful location. Come out and see us again! Good times!!
The place has a great vibe and excellent service. It’s In a great location and has really good entertainment. The selection of wines is plentiful for anyones Taste! Experience it for yourself. You will not be disappointed!
If you enjoy your live entertainment in the form of a train wreck, then this sad excuse for a "venue" is what you're looking for. They obviously books only the most awful local bands in all of L.A. One is worse than the last. But the absolute worst just played there called Stevie and the Heartrockers. There aren't enough adjectives to describe how pathetic they are. Good thing this dive sells over-priced wine, because you need to be extremely drunk to face the deplorable screechings of Cynthia Romo. She is awful in ways that haven't even been invented yet.
Service: terrible if that bartender rolled her eyes one more time they might have gotten stuck. The owner was too busy pretending he owned a concert venue to check on guests. I literally had to wave my hands over my head to get his attention. WAVE MY HANDS OVER MY HEAD. I would never. I find that behavior repugnant but it was THE ONLY WAY I could close out my tab. Shan’t be returning but I doubt they care. Guess we found the one place that doesn’t need good word of mouth.
Great local wine bar. Awsome selection of local, small batch wines. Comfortable environment with the main room used for live entertainment and the back room having a more subdued ambiance. Video monitors in the back room show the live entertainment in the front room. Food provided by rotating selection of food trucks.
Went to see a cover band. There are tables all around, yet they're situated close to one another which makes navigating from one side of the room to the other a bit challenging once people are seated. And there were more people than table seats, so plenty of milling about.For what is supposed to be a winery, they only have 7 wines available. And since they were each described as being from different parts of California, I was unclear as to if any were from this particular winery.The price per glass was a bit high. There was a single Chardonnay that was $15. The rest started at $22 and went up. No other drinks were offered - so if you felt like changing it up, you couldn't. There is no table service - you have to get your drink from the bar. And the suggested gratuity that pops up on the iPad starts at 18%. Why?? I have to get my own drink and then the bartender does nothing more than pour this overpriced liquid from a bottle to a glass. If there was a mixologist creating a special Old Fashion, that's worth a 20% gratuity. This was not that.That said, there's no cover charge for what seems to be nightly entertainment. Though there is a 2-drink minimum. Personally, I'd rather pay a $10 cover and have a reasonably priced drink, along with some variety. Though the place was packed.There's a lunch truck of sorts out back, and they do offer some good pizza. But it's not part of the winery so that would be a different review. No other munchies or food is offered. Didn't interact with or see anyone but those 2-3 people who poured the wines (I'm avoiding calling them bartenders).My Sangiovese was delicious. But for $23-$24 it should be. And I heard no complaints about the Syrah.Will I go again? They did have a good lineup of music and comedy showing on their calendar, so I'm sure I will. I'll just be aware of the setup.
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If you want a place with great atmosphere and amazing wine, you need to check out Nobu Wines. We came for some live entertainment on a Sunday nite and it was the perfect end to the weekend. Will definitely come back for more.
Was at NABU when the band was very average and very few people listening to music and having wine. The manager came over demanding that we buy wine or soda or give her $10. She was nasty, mean, saying four letters words and then told us to leave and walked behind us till we were out of Nabu. Will never go back again. There are much better places to go and hear music
This is a wine club. You can buy individual glasses of wine or bottles of wine if you're not in the club but it is quite pricey. I did have a Pinot Noir that was excellent it was $20 and it was a very good poor. My wife had a Chardonnay and I believe that was $15 quite reasonable. There was music that was playing and they were quite good.
Had such an amazing time last night at Nabu. Linda and Friends was an amazing band...perfect atmosphere... the Pinot Noir was outstanding! Looking forward to returning.
The ambiance was really nice, music amazing.The prices of the wine was absolutely ridiculous, 29$ for one glass :/ with the wine being mediocre...I'd come here every weekend if i didn't feel taken advantage of with the prices.Staff was wonderful...