wine shop

It was the closure of the previous business, Oeno Vino Wine Shop & Bar, also a wine shop up top and bar/comedy hub below, that inspired Peltier to seek the help of her high school friend group.

Adams Wine Shop is the specialty bottle store connected to restaurant Alta Adams in the burgeoning West Adams neighborhood.

He’s also an entrepreneur at heart whose own irritation over a city regulation, which required him to install a mop sink in his carpeted wine shop, partially motivated his interest in government.

When Beast shut down in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the space was used for Pomeroy’s new project Ripe Cooperative — an all-in-one restaurant, wine shop and grab-and-go market — until its closure in 2022.

Atwater Village’s newbie wine shop only opened in January, but its Baby Battista bar venue has already become an alt hot spot.