Ombra Wine Bar

468 Caruso Ave, Glendale - 91210
134 reviews
Bar & Grill Wine Bar Cocktail Bar

Literally just a wine bar. Very very very mellow atmosphere. SMALL area. It's located a few miles from several other bars but unless you're into wine then pick somewhere else for the night. Professional staff, offer tastes of a few wines depending on what you like $11-15 depending on what you get (sparking, pink, white, red..) & glasses we ordered a cheese platter & it had variety you can pick from if you know how to pair cheese & wine. Overall, just CHILL place if you like your wines

I'm 9 months pregnant and was craving one of their desserts. Been here in the past and I knew it's "first come, first served" so I've seen an empty table and sat down while my mom went to notify the hostess. When she approached the hostess and told her I'm pregnant and I sat down, the hostess Sofia replied with "this is a wine bar. Why is she drinking if she is pregnant?" To which my mom replied "we only want coffee and desserts" and came to the table upset with the hostess attitude. Shortly after, the waitress Alyssa shows up to whom we order a sparkling water, 2 cappuccinos and one dessert. She then proceeds to tell me in order to have dessert, we need to get dinner . I asked to talk with a manager because I've been there before and this was never an issue . The hostess comes (same from earlier) and has the audacity to tell me , quote " I already explain to her (my mom) that we don't serve hot drinks. Only alcohol! " while 2 tables down I could see cups of hot drinks that 2 girls were enjoying. I pointed out that table and since she couldn't explain why I'm being refused a hot drink she said she'll send me a manager. When the manager Luis came, he had no excuse for what I've experienced but have tried somehow to defend his staff by saying that sometimes if it's very busy the outside "bar", they would offer a table inside the restaurant. Well, so I was never offered a table inside, I've been told why I'm there if I'm pregnant, can't order because I need to order dinner, can't order hot drink but only alcohol and ultimately the manager apologized couple of times . So many excuses in only probably 10minutes .I have not experienced any type of discrimination such as this during my whole pregnancy. In fact, all employees from all the businesses I visited were always super nice and helpful if needed. It was very humiliating! The table next to us that heard the conversation with the server and the hostess, have offered to order coffee and desserts for us and pass it to our table. Can you imagine how that felt ?

We stopped in for a light dinner. I selected the beet salad which was okay and a glass of wine. On another night we stopped at the neighboring patio which is also owned by this restaurant which had a create your own gin and tonic menu..a really fun idea. On this second visit to this sister establishment, we got the fried calamari..the fried veggies with it where a hit. Overall, the the food we got was okay.

My favorite place!

Margherita pizza was excellent. Not at all wet and mushy in the middle. Fried calamari was also very good. Although the fried calamari order is really more like a vegetable tempura with some calamari sprinkled in. But it tasted amazing. Vegetable soup was bland and boring. I'd even go so far as to say it was not good. Service was friendly but a bit slow.

Nice patio, good food and drinks!

The atmosphere is great and the food delicious.

Cioppino was excellent and service was impeccable ?

Worst service I had ever received. I was there for over an hour and not one person took our order. When we finally got our food it was cold and it had a hair in it. Manager was super nice but she needs to train her servers better customer service. WILL NEVER GO BACK!!!

Delicious food ?