Wine 101 Helotes

My wife, friends and I planned to go to Wine 101 this past weekend. We live nearby and have been often. Their Facebook page said they opened at Noon (they have now changed it). My wife really likes their food, so she didn’t eat lunch and was planning to have an appetizer. We arrived on Saturday at 2, and no one was there. Luckily, they share a beer garden area with Busted Sandal, so we had a beer. Unfortunately, no one showed up until about 3. They said they were having issues with the keys, so didn’t open the wine window until 3:30. Sadly, they also said the cook wouldn’t be there until 4:30 or 5:00 p.m. We did order about $60 of wine at that point.

Unfortunately my wife was now starving, so we got food from El Chapparal while we finished the wine. It’s a shared garden area with other businesses, and their kitchen wasn’t even operational, so we figured no big deal. They don’t even have wait service right now because of COVID. Almost as soon as the food had arrived, an irate employee ran out of the kitchen and started screaming at us for ordering food elsewhere when they serve [usually] food. I explained to her that we had been waiting for hours, and that they weren’t even serving food at this point! She said we were lying, and that their Facebook says they open at 3:00 (it didn’t, I showed it to her). We explained to her that we had just ordered some wine. She never asked us to leave, and just started yelling about health code violations and went back in the trailer.

About 30 minutes later, the POLICE showed up! They asked us what happened, and told us that the business was kicking us out! The employee had never politely asked us to leave, or to eat the food elsewhere, and a manager never spoke with us. They weren’t even serving food, my wife was already done with the food, and we were in a space shared with other businesses. This was incredibly embarrassing and I’ve never had a situation like this before. We will never be back and this was some of the worst management of a restaurant or bar I have ever seen in my life. Never again!