I realized something recently… I’m kind of tired of going out to dinner are the restaurants around me. They’re the same old thing over and over again for the most part. Go in, maybe order an appetizer to share, get an entree, and go home having eaten too much of the same old same old.

About a week and a half ago, I found out that Dayton, Ohio, offers an alternative… A real wine bar! Ok, Brian, the owner and proprieter of the Wine Gallery & Cafe (WG&C), has a chef that cooks, too, but I have to be honest; the food isn’t the real reason to be there. Don’t get me wrong… The food is good. The au gratin potatoes, in fact, are great! But what sets WG&C apart is the treatment of wine.

It’s nice to have a local place that has a good wine list, but there are several in Dayton that can handle that. There’s even a couple of places with really good selections of wines available by the glass. WG&C goes one step further by offering something like thirty (sorry, I didn’t count them) flights of wines on the menu. Their take on a flight is three glasses with two ounce pours of different wines that are linked by a theme. With so many flights, the themes are pretty varied, from sweet whites to big reds, and everthing in between. Each flight has a quick description above it, such as Pinot Noirs, or Sweet Reds, Spicy Reds, Oaky Whites, etc.

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