Bar à vin 1855

259 Newbury St, Boston - 02116
264 reviews
Wine Bar French
(617) 587-4222

Amazing wine bar with a great selection. Wait staff is extremely friendly and welcoming. The food was fantastic. I got the escargots, which paired excellently with the wine proposed by the Sommelier. I'm excited to go back!

Brilliant restaurant. Have been a a few times over the past year and it gets better every time. The food and wine are amazing. The service is brilliant. Matthieu is exceptional. Great sunken patio out of the front Al fresco summer dining. We will be back .

Apps and drinks were good. Our waitress was amazing. The entrees…we both got steak and it was horrible. Zero flavor…the French fries are like someone dropped a whole jar of pepper on it and that was it. It was really bad. I’m actually nauseas thinking of it now hours later. Not worth the price. Will not return.

Best French restaurant in town. Perfect ambiance, waiters and waitresses are amazing, food is divine. Highly recommend !

Large and eclectic selection of French wines. Highly recommended!

I so wanted to love this place. The food was good (portions were small) and the drinks were delicious, but it was unbearably hot inside. Our entire table of 6 was sweating the entire time and we were told there was no way to turn the air conditioning up. It made for a very unpleasant time.

Sat outside. We loved all the food: foie gras, canard and beuf bourguignone. Great wine selection and we recommend the Calvados with chocolate tart.

Great food, great service, and great wine. Our server recommended lovely French wines to pair with our varied appetizers and meals. While my scallops were slightly over, they were not yet dry and the Brussels sprouts and prosciutto were a tasty contrast.

So, for my 48th birthday, I decided that I wanted to have French cuisine, and as I am a wine aficianado, I chose this place for my birthday dinner. The result was a waste of $48 and a Sunday evening that I could have spent at home resting before the work week. The appetizer was crab croquettes; they were fine, but for $16 I got three small ones. They were not worth $5.33 each by any stretch of the imagination, and I suspect that the romesco sauce that was pretty heavily ladled on them covered up some sins; by themselves, they might not have passed the test. But it was the main course where things really went awry. I wanted the boeuf bourguignon, but it came with asparagus that could not be removed, and asparagus makes me nauseous, so I was forced to choose another option. (The menu online does not match what was placed in front of me at the actual place.) I selected a pork risotto, which came with three slabs of pork that were way overcooked; they were only just barely edible. I sent it back and asked that the pork be cooked properly; the server informed me that the chef would cook them to my request but that there was then a danger of food poisoning. So this chef apparently has no clue how to cook pork properly without turning it into shoe leather; THEN WHY IS A PORK DISH ON THE MENU? I was so disgusted at this point that I requested the check and got out of there as fast as I could; I finished my dinner at a nearby passable Japanese place. I spent over an hour and fifteen minutes traveling by metro each way (and enduring replacement bus service) for this massive disappointment. The only reason it gets two stars instead of one is that the service was decent; they took the risotto off the bill (after confirming that, yes, I did not want to pay for it) and offered a free dessert, which I declined, desiring no further demonstrations of the kitchen's skills. To date, Boston's restaurant scene has been a mixed bag at best; this place is a tick in the VERY negative column.

The selection of their red wine was extensive and their quality outstanding.We had a couple of red wines and the steak tartar, probably my favorite one so far as I’m addicted to tartars!!