Piccolo Wine Room

This is probably the best small bar in Cincinnati. Julia and Brittany are wonderful servers, and Neil and Aimee create and execute clever, great tasting, unique menu selections Thursday thru Saturday. There is an extensive selection of wines, as well as a sampling of local craft brews available. The setting in Glendale village square is perfect.

We stopped in Piccolo for the wine tasting on Friday and enjoyed ourselves so much we ended up staying for dinner. There is a nice wine selection in the wine shop next door and it is so neat that you are able to select your wine in the wine shop and carry over to the wine bar area. The appetizers during the wine tasting were delicious as were the shrimp tacos we shared for dinner. The acoustic music really adds to the ambiance as well. I highly recommend stopping in Piccolo. You will not be disappointed.

Piccolo is our favorite weekend hangout in Glendale, OH. Food is served on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays and the chef, Aimee Saling, is THE BEST! Her food is absolutely delicious and she can modify most dishes for food intolerances (which I very much appreciate). Julia Piazza Porter is at the bar most nights and a more pleasant, happy, competent hostess is hard to find! With the wine shop next door run by Steve Dinnerstein, and wine tasting on Friday nights, it’s our go to place most every weekend. Come check it out!

You probably guessed that Piccolo Wine Room has an extensive wine selection, but they also have great beer options and, on Thursdays through Saturdays, excellent dinner choices. Chef Aimee changes the menu every week, which I like, and I’ve really enjoyed everything I’ve tried. I highly recommend Piccolo for dinner or just drinks.

Piccolo wine room is a fantastic way to just grab a quick drink, with friendly service, beautiful environment, with a small town feel, but-​you have to eat there! The new Chef is incredible, so creative, delicious food. This place is a gem, and you will not be disappointed if you chose this place as dinner, not just a casual drink! GET TO PICCOLO!

Great little wine shop, new chef is serving some delicious creative plates and the staff is a lot of fun. Tonight’s menu was sweet potato nachos, cubano sandwich with duck fat fries, and a gnocchi with clam in an awesome cream sauce. Couldn’t decide which to get so we got one of each. The chocolate bacon potato chip for dessert was a nice touch. We will be back soon!

4 stars for wine service; 2 stars for food.
We were there on a Tuesday, so no one in Glendale or its environs seemed to be outside their homes. But we had a gracious server we chatted up at the bar for a little camaraderie. The food, however, was pretty poor. It clearly isn’t their feature, and I appreciate having small bites for people to enjoy with their drinks. But they should have kept it as charcuterie etc. We had a stuffed portobello mushroom that was dry and bland. The quinoa it was stuffed with was not fully cooked and the vegetables had no flavor at all. If I weren’t hungry, I probably wouldn’t have eaten it.
I like that they offer 2 oz tasting pours as well as full glasses and quite a few half bottles. And if you purchase a bottle from the adjacent wine shop, which has a pretty nice selection of old and new world wines at expected prices, they only charge a $ 5 corking fee. Not bad.

I’ll admit it; I don’t get out to the suburbs as much as I should. It just feels … wrong as it may be … that there’s sometimes nothing out there but chains and more chains. But then I find a place like the Piccolo Wine Room and feel shamed for ever feeling that way.
Down the street from The Iron Horse and part of Pizza Discepoli, a separate restaurant, the Piccolo Wine Room is a beautiful spot for a date or relaxing night.
Mood-​lit and beautiful, this one long room is all atmosphere. It’s a calm, tranquil space where people sit close and talk even closer. There’s also seating outside at some tables, which is where we decided to sit and drink our wine.
And what wine it was. A long list of all different types and flavors. The best part of the menu is you can try wine in three different sizes: Taste, Glass and Bottle. Most of the tastes range from $ 2 to $ 4, glasses from $ 5 to 8 and the bottles from $ 15 to $ 25. Amazingly reasonably priced.
There is also a menu with light bites, although we had just come from eating so we didn’t try any. They looked good though.
There’s also a large wooden adjoining wine shop for you to buy some bottles and take them home if you so please.
There are a few people working behind the bar, some which come to tables and some which stay where they are. Depending on how many people are in the wine room, it can be tough to get their attention sometimes (and we actually had to go inside to talk to them twice, even though they said they would be walking around.) AH well.
Still, a wonderful evening out and I would return … yes, to the suburbs.