Afterwords Wine - Chautauqua

I thoroughly enjoyed my two visits to Afterwords. The walk from the hotel was short and beautiful. The atmosphere was classy yet casual, with high ceilings and comfortable seating. There's a sommelier on staff, and I was pleasantly surprised to find a type of wine I like on the menu that you can't find just anywhere. The charcuterie offering made a nice dinner, including the arugula with tasty balsamic blaze that came with it. My server, Bear, was great. Wish this group would set up shop in Asheville where I live!

Barry was a fantastic host and incredibly knowledgable, very kind to a total wine novice like myself. Cannot recommend Afterwords enough!

We had a 10 PM reservation for 4 and noted that we were coming from the symphony. The symphony ended earlier than expected, and we headed over to the bar, expecting that we might have to wait a bit for our reservation. However, when we got there we were told (rather rudely) that all reservations had been cancelled, because “the reservation system is broken and we have to cancel all the reservations until it is fixed”. He said “you had the 10:00, right”. I said yes, and why didn't anyone call to tell me it had been cancelled. No answer. There were not four seats together for our party, so we left and are unlikely to return.

Staff was accommodating as I was 6:45 reservation. Food and wine was excellent! Thanks for new venue.

It was 12:30 on a Sunday and they were out of two of the three dishes we ordered. They comped our wine, but still. . . Because their menu choices are quite limited, we were left with few options. Service was sketchy--slow and had to ask for items like table ware and a bottle of water for our table which every other table seemed to have. In addition, it is quite expensive. If our wine had not been comped and they had available the two additional menu items we ordered, our bill for two people would have been well over $100 even though we each had only one glass of the least expensive wines on the menu. I will not go back.