A wine boutique stocked with 40 flavors in self-dispensing wine machines, the Las Olas Wine Café served pita with Mediterranean hummus, salmon on crostinis and caprese sandwiches on baguette along with Sicamore Lane Chardonnay and Merlot. Although the pita with hummus tasted like, well, your standard pita and hummus dish, the salmon dish and caprese sandwiches were exceptionally delicious. Perhaps it was the little touches such as the lemon and chive cream cheese with the salmon as well as the homemade basil pesto combo with the crunchy baguette and fresh mozzarella cheese that really made the other dishes stand out.
The servers prepare everything themselves and so were extremely knowledgeable about the food. "Our food is great," said Erika, a server. "Our cheese plates and tapas are great to go with wine. You can even custom-make your cheese plate." Judging by the empty platter of food at the end of our 30-minute stay, participants of the Dishcrawl enjoyed the food as well.
Las Olas Wine Café is located at 922 E. Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-760-1882, or visit lasolaswinecafe.com.
