Essi Wine Bar Restaurant

Great place for wine and charcuterie. Lobster Mac is off the hook! Ya gotta have it!

One of the few places in the Marina I actually enjoy! Very nice and classy wine bar, never super crowded or filled with young 20-somethings. Great date spot and can be extra fun late at night. Iykyk

Love this place! The spinach salad with strawberries was amazing. Good wine. Staff very attentive and friendly. Will definitely go back.

A friend -and I showed up looking for a table. The 2 host weren?t friendly at at All, bad customer service. We never heard or told ?let me see what I can do? literally ?here is your wine, a plastic cup good bye? They were totally rude.We were gonnaspend money. Not a good experience at all. We ended up at Westwood across from Balboa Café. Total positive experience.

Approached the wine bar looking for a cocktail, to then be greeted by a man who told us that everyone serves food if they serve hard alcohol, and that we should grab a few glasses of wine here instead and not have to order food. The waiter proceeded toinsist on us ordering food (even mentioning the first interaction). Was just annoying and rude. Then, he proceeds to tell usthat they only have a menu for food, mentioned 25% wine, so we ordered wine to then find out at our bill that each glass was$16. Overall such a cute spot but terrible service and steep prices.