Waterfront Wine Bar

2 N 8th St, Manitowoc
(920) 652-9466

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James Deese

Great little spot right on the water. Wonderful food and great service. James the bartender was wonderful!

Kelly Pulliam

Neat place, wide wide of offerings on the menu. Neat beverage glasses.

Laura lyrik Klein

Top 10 favorite places to eat and have a drink

Lake Life

Excellent menu selections! We had the Pesto Salmon and an Alfredo dish, both we amazing! One of my favorite places to eat in Manitowoc!

John Brunner

Deanna and I had the best experience this weekend. The Pesto Salmon was over-the-top amazing (and we're told it was prepared by a 16 year old chef). The service by our server, Izabella (I hope I have that right) was absolutely the best!

Thank you for a wonderful dinner!

Stuart Hobson

Great food and service

Markel Thompson

Thanks to one of my colleagues, we found this fabulous place for wine and food! The atmosphere is intimate, rustic and inviting. We enjoyed lovely wines and delicious food. The calm and quiet atmosphere afforded us an evening of great conversation. You should definitely visit and ask for LeeAnne. She is amazing! We assumed she must be an owner or manager, but much to our surprise she isn’t! However she is the heart of the place when she’s there.
If you decide to visit you will not be disappointed…

Steve Erbach

We were served by LeAnne. Ask for her. I’m serious. This is a lady who understands how to make a wining and dining experience exceptional. My dinner partner and I both figured that LeAnne must be a part-owner, or at least a manager. It wasn’t that she went out of her way for us, no; it was simply her usual way of treating people: with respect, efficiency, consideration, good humor, and good nature. By the way, the food was excellent. We are most assuredly coming back. The best time I’ve had in a restaurant in years. And be sure to ask for LeAnne!

Elizabeth B

Amazing tacos and great view

mitch peterson

Worst dining experience I can remember...
We arrived at 6pm with a reservation for 13, they sat us at a table for 12. Fortunately two of our party could not make it that evening so the seating worked out. The staff told us it may be an hour because they were busy (foreshadowing).
It was around 20 minutes before the server took our drink orders which I understand as they were busy. We ordered our food as well at this time because we had plenty of time to look at the menu. At 654pm our drinks finally arrived. Nearly one hour to receive drinks from the gun, we're talking lemonade and iced tea, nothing too difficult. I could grow, harvest and squeeze the lemons in less time than it took to bring out the glass of lemonade we ordered.
At 715pm I went and asked if we could get refills on drinks and asked about the status of our appetizers. The server said, sure let me take a look. Again we ordered lunch meat on a piece of wood, nothing too difficult. She brought a pitcher of lemonade and our lunchmeat after I asked.
We waiting longer and our food finally arrived at 820pm. The restaurant closes at 9pm. They had starting sweeping the floors and putting the chairs up before we even had our food. Also the food did not come out together, we had to watch as some of our table were able to eat as the rest of us drooled and looked at their plates longingly.
So for the food itself, it was also not good. I ordered the pad tai and it was liking eating mushy oatmeal. Normally I would send something like this back but at this point I would have eaten the menu I was so hungry. My daughter called the alfredo "mid" which is young person speak for "bad".
When the bill finally came and we were about to escape this terrible social experiment there is a "service charge" on our bill. I asked the server what this is and she let me know it was the 20% gratuity and then had the gall to say, "you don't have to tip any more than that".
Worst dining experience I can remember.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

Gurt Reynolds

Great location and cool inside! Food is ok, and a bit expensive for what you get.

Update: Service is always lacking and sooo slow. Place is getting worse.

Katie Sufak

Love the food and atmosphere at this place, but I've gone more than twice on a Saturday night that we were turned away because they closed kitchen before 8pm. Super disappointing!!!! How can you support a downtown establishment when a bar and restaurant has closed the kitchen, is putting up chairs and mopping the floor at 750 pm on a Saturday night?! Very tacky.

Mike Illig

I'd like to try the food again, the drinks were delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Melanie Kozlowski

I ordered a specialty drink from their menu for my birthday. I was super excited to get it, but it looked nothing like what they had on their website. That was super disappointing. I mean, don't get me wrong, the drink was yummy, but their posted picture of it was a spectacular presentation. It looked nothing like what was advertised on their digital menu.

dustin brooks

The food here is really good. Also a great place to get an old fashioned.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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