“Much like complicated dirty martinis or sexed-up smashburgers, wine bars are, for want of a kinder word, overdone,” says Daisy Jones, who wants to see a return to meal-sized portions and value for money.
By now, you’ll have seen them on Instagram. Or at the end of your street. Or in the flesh on a Friday night. Dimly-lit establishments with anchovies, Perelló olives and some kind of pickle situation in a dish. Natural wines, endless natural wines, all lined up in a row on display. Gold tables, or long wooden ones that everyone has to shout over.
When I clink glasses with my 30-something friends and exchange romantic gossip beneath the sort of low lights that enhance everyones cheekbones, I often feel as though I am – excuse the cliché – in an episode of Sex And The City circa 2001. But I also can’t help but feel that these places are, to quote a colleague of mine, “scamming rackets”. The other night, I paid £17 for a tiny bowl of Rigatoni Alla Gricia – pasta and cheese to you and me – to share between four.
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