About 5 years ago on a cold winter evening, my husband and I happened to find this wonderful, cozy, romantic wine bar tucked away in Travis Walk. They had a great selection of wines by the glass as well as flights and bottles. We equally enjoyed it as a cool reprieve on summer evenings. Then several months after our last visit we showed up on a Saturday evening to find Bodega gone…with no forwarding address.
Fast forward to another chilly evening a few months ago (we really need to move to a tropical island). I was searching online for a new Dallas area wine bar to try and lo and behold Bodega resurfaced! We were so happy to check out this old friend in a new location. And we were surprised to find it had been there for almost a year. While the new site is in a strip center compared with the chic locale of its former days, the inside was very similar: dark, romantic, comfortable furniture and an added benefit, two faux fire places. Still owned by Amier Taherzadeh, he and his wife were the servers and the menu offered a broad variety of wines by the glass, flight or bottle. The ad says you can bring your own bottle for a $10 corkage which is a nice benefit if you are having a small party, but we prefer trying new wines and learning about them from Amier.
They do offer meat and cheese trays and they don’t mind if you bring in food from the neighboring taco joint or Italian restaurant which is what we may try the next time.
Bodega will definitely remain on our wine bar “circuit”. Welcome back!