L’Un des Sens | Assiettes gourmandes et canons à partager au bar à vin intimiste du vieux Colmar — Restaurant in Colmar-Ribeauvillé

Turned away at 10:20 when they're listed as being open until 11:00pm, and there were plenty of seats. Just wanted a glass: "no, our kitchen is closed, and we don't have a license to sell alcohol without food". I guess they've never heard of nuts, olives, chips, or the like, and a cheese plate must be very difficult to assemble. Want to make a reservation? They're so good at serving other people's products with attitude that they're booked into the foreseeable future, sorry. Just say you don't want to serve us. I'm curious as to what license in France is so restrictive, and how after years they're unable to get a license to serve alcohol without food like seemingly every other bar in the city. Must be nice to take your business for granted like that, but I suppose that's what you get in a tourist town with a near monopoly on the natural/bio wave. If you want natural wine in Colmar, book well in advance and pay these lovely people too much, or go to one of the other wine bars or stores, many of which have some natural/bio stuff even if they don't specialize in it, and save yourself the pomp and circumstance.

Edit after response: we might have different views on the matter, but it seems confirmed that essentially they couldn't be bothered to pour a couple of glasses of wine and throw down a snack almost an hour before "close" because...they're entitled to choose to not do that. They're intentionally hiding behind the licensing, and the kitchen being "closed" as an excuse to do so. Fine, I'm entitled to think that's not sweet, particularly for a place at least partially advertised as a "wine bar", wherein other people were still eating and drinking. The attitude with which we were dismissed wasn't outright rude, but perhaps not as pleasant as suggested, and the alternative presented was "oof maybe in a few days, but I don't really know". This is definitely one way to run a business. In any case, just book ahead, and don't expect to walk up to this "wine bar" and get a drink. You need them more than...

We really enjoyed our meal here. The food here is really better than you would expect at a wine bar, which is often just charcuterie and cheeses. Here, there were 12 or so different small dishes that were well-executed and delicious. We had the leeks vinaigrette, the beets with goat cheese, shepherd’s pie with duck, roast red cabbage, and apple purée with fromage blanc. All delicious. The wine by the glass selection is not extensive, but the recommendations were tasty and we ended up buying a bottle of the late harvest Pinot Gris because it was just the right balance of sweet and acid. Service was friendly and the staff speak English. We arrived at opening with a reservation, thinking we did not need it because it was largely empty the first hour, but it quickly filled up even on a cold January night and we were glad to have made the reservation. I would...

Just a hint: if you name yourself a wine bar, it means people can come over to drink wine. However, we didn’t have a chance to do so since we were told in a very unfriendly matter that (citation): “you have to eat, you cannot order only a drink”. The restaurant was empty and we wouldn’t have taken someone’s table. So of you suggest to have a glass or two of wine, go somewhere else because this “winery” refuses to serve you if you don’t order food. Also I’ve read other reviews that validate my experience which employs that this place doesn’t Change the way it treats its guests over years. Oh and yes, aggressive reply to this comment is coming since it also seems to happen to...