The Market Vines - Wine Bar & Grille

I have never had such an awful experience in a restaurant that had nothing to do with the food or service. When my friends and I walked in, the place was rather busy and the bartender asked us if we’d like a table. After replying that we would, she wrote our name down and we purchased drinks and waited for something to open up. After about 15 minutes she said, “That table over there is yours once it’s cleaned up”. We sat down and enjoyed our drinks, appetizer, dinner and the live music that was playing. After about an hour, we paid our bill and were finishing up when the owner of the restaurant approached us and asked if “we stole the table, because there is a waiting list”. After telling her we gave our name to her staff and were told to sit at that table, she went to check the waiting list, came back and said “I guess it is okay”. We were taken aback by the rudeness of the owner and felt it could have been asked in a different manner. At that point, we decided it was better to leave the rest of our meal and walk out. My friend approached the owner and told her we didn’t appreciated being treated with such rudeness and it’s a shame she acts like that toward customers. The owner told my friend that she does that all the time and she doesn’t care what he thinks. While we were outside, standing under an awning two businesses down from Market Vines, the owner comes outside to “apologize”. However, after telling her we did not want her apologies, she said, “I’m not fing sorry, f you. Never come back.” I was so astonished by her reaction and the way she had treated us, as paying customers, that I said nothing except, “Don’t worry”. She then went inside and came back out with 2 men and another woman; one of the men (the owner’s husband) got in my friend’s face and starting screaming at him and poking my friend in the chest with his finger. My friend’s wife then took out her phone to video tape their outrageous behavior and the woman owner hit her hand away and grabbed her phone, all while screaming obscenities at us. The owner made it very clear that “young people like us” are not welcome in her establishment. I have never been treated in such a manner for waiting for a table, eating food, drinking beverages and paying a bill. I do not recommend supporting this restaurant or its owners. I’m saddened that small business owners treat their customers with such disrespect, especially in a town that needs businesses like this to revive its struggling downtown.