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- Hours:
Fri-Sat. 12:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Sun. 12:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Parking:
- Street
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
6 reviews for 10th Street Vineyard Cafe
Sweet Jesus...this place ROCKS!
Napa is for Auto Parts, Paso is for wine, and this place!
Disclaimer...[CASH ONLY, make reservations, dinner is only at 6pm]
My boyfriend and I came here looking for a snooty-LESS place in wine country, sometimes it can pose a challenge! Then we found this place on our trusty yelp!
A restaurant that gives you pure culinary genius and a rousing good time can really spark my interest. I loved this place! And ok...9 courses...with highlights including tomato garlicy avocado-y goodness being gazpacho, sweet and fresh zippy coleslaw, delicious chicken and sausage paella, strawberry (soaked in wine overnight) shortcake, and SANGRIA! Wow...wow.
Add in that the owner, Dallas Holt is so amazing and down to earth...I mean he catered to a vegetarian and made her a veggie paella (great guy, considering he had a planned menu set out for everyone!)
If you're looking for a restaurant that delivers excitement, social-ness/good converstations were travelers, and a 3-3.5 hour culinary ride, come here! COME HERE! It's not snooty, it's great for the price, and even if there are a few misses, the hits are soooooo worth it. I mean, this restaurant makes San Miguel what it is!
GO GO GO!
Cash only - don't be surprised like we were! A casual but fun place - the owner/chef sat with us and talked about life and business. Good, although not great, food. Only five people in the place total (including the two of us). Not really Basque food, as advertised, but really whatever the owners feel like making.
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Go, go, go! This place is muy fantastico y delicioso!
The scene: bachelorette weekend, 9 of us, we want *good* food on Friday night after a long 3 hour drive from SF. My trusty Yelp source and food blogger contact both stressed we needed to eat here. Word.
We walk in and were seated at a super cozy family style table with 3 couples. Since it's prie fix only, we kept getting served every ten minutes or so. The goods: "Kick Ass Potatoes" (insane!!!), cole slaw (sweet, goood), olive tapenade and french bread (amazing), baked chicken (yum!) and shephards pie (not my thing but appreciated it nonetheless).
10th Street Vineyard cafe is definitely an experience; it's not a place for a romantic date. It's a place to go and celebrate with great friends and family. They do a Basque tradition where they pass around a canteen of red wine and every guest is "required" so sip - so much fun and interactive.
My only gripe: I see this place as a $$$ vs. $$. I was surprised at our bill; alcohol is not included in the prie fix price and it adds up real quick here. Beware.
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What a gem! Hands down my favorite spot in the Paso Robles Area.
As their website states - It's not so much *fine* dining - it's FUN dining!!
The food is superb - there's always a ton of variety, and everything is interesting and delicious.
The wine selection is awesome - they have several excellent local wines. (Remember, Napa is for Auto Parts... Paso is for Wine!!!)
The atmosphere is like nothing I've ever experienced - one seating with family style dining means that everyone eats together, and by the end of the night you're sharing a boda bag of wine with your new best friends! It's sort of like attending the world's best dinner party. Conversation and wine flow freely, everyone is laughing and enjoying the food, Chef Dallas mingles with all his guests - it's a truly a wonderful experience. Not to be missed! I can't wait to go back.
Note: This small restaurant fills up quickly, so be sure to make a reservation. And bring cash! (They don't take plastic.)
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11/5/2008
The 10th Street Vineyard Cafe is an absolute hoot!! Chef Dallas welcomes the entire resturant to a… Read more »
Went to the 10th Avenue Vineyard Cafe tonight with a group of 8. Had a blast. The owner/chef, Dallas, delivers a fun evening of food and good cheer. Feeding him wine seems to enhance the experience (we brought in a bunch of wine we'd picked up during the day and were inclined to share).
They only host one seating a night, at 7PM, and we didn't leave until about 10:30 or so. There were 8 dishes, not counting bread and dessert. Not all were hits, but there were some fantastic dishes. Albacore Fish Cakes were tasty and the (much hyped by some of my dinner companions who'd been there before) Kick Butt Potatoes were out of this world. I personally could have done without pickled carrots and the cabbage with fennel, but they worked for some.
The party kicked in a bit when the boda bag came around. We apparently had a more skilled group than Pizzazz had and it was fun passing it around.
"Dinner" started with a tomato soup and caesar-like salad (not sure what it was exactly, just tasty). The entrees were a Basque stew with all 4 food groups represented: chicken, pork, beef and lamb; and there was a basil chicken pasta.
Dessert was superfluous. Champagne over sherbert. Nice but by that time, we were so stuffed.
All in all , a really fun evening and likely to become a tradition for this crew. I already want to go back.
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The Tenth Street Cafe is an entertaining and fun place to stuff your face in San Miguel. Modeled after the Basque ranchers communal style of eating, there is only one seating per night and everyone is served the same menu.
Each menu includes 4 or 5 tapas, soup, salad, migas, 2 main courses, and dessert. All of this is accompanied by some pretty decent fresh bread made in-house, and there's a short wine list featuring reasonably priced wines from the region.
The food is not fancy, but most of the dishes we tried were tasty. The soup that night was posole, with little hominy but lots of fresh vegetables and tender pork. The migas were very salty and delicious and the potatoes were garlicky, oily, and addictive.
A few dishes needed some improvement, like a slightly soggy paella and some overcooked fish cakes, but those were in the minority. My main quibble was over dessert, which was a sherbet of the store-bought pineapple/orange/lime variety. I liked it when I was five, but if you are going to make everything else fresh, why not splurge and make an original dessert? Luckily, with so much variety, even the pickiest eaters won't leave hungry. And because it is all served family style, you can always request more of dish if you happen finish what they've given you.
One other thing: somewhere in the middle of the meal, the hostess brings out a boda bag filled with sangria and instructs everyone how to squirt the wine into their mouths from a distance. This proved to be a messy prospect, and one that required a bit too much coordination from the septuagenarians in the crowd, who proceeded to put their mouths all over the bottle. I'm no Howard Hughes, but I don't really want to drink from a bottle that's been frenched by 20 grandmas at the start of flu season. Oh well, when in Rome...
I would definitely go back if I were in the area. The whole menu (not including drinks) is about $28 a person, which is practically the bargain of the century, and the owners create a jovial atmosphere if you are with the right people.
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