Comments on: Okay! So We Opened A Wine Bar. A VEGAN Wine Bar. Huzzah!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 05:24:00 +0000

What do you mean?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:50:00 +0000

Errr, and where did you mention the wines being vegan?

By: Pictures Of Things + Le Love List | Bonzai Aphrodite

Pictures Of Things + Le Love List | Bonzai Aphrodite — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 03:49:32 +0000

[...] end of a looooong day in November, after both of us working all day and then both of us working the Wine Bar all night, we finally got home a few minutes before midnight — with just enough time left to [...]

By: What I Ate Wednesday: Life These Days | Bonzai Aphrodite

What I Ate Wednesday: Life These Days | Bonzai Aphrodite — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:25:14 +0000

[...] we’re about three months into this whole opening a vegan wine bar thing, and it’s actually going pretty swimmingly. Other than the long, late hours and the [...]

By: 5 & 1/4 Wine Bar | The Veganista Foodie

5 & 1/4 Wine Bar | The Veganista Foodie — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:39:06 +0000

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By: Pictures Of Things + Le Love List | Bonzai Aphrodite

Pictures Of Things + Le Love List | Bonzai Aphrodite — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 06:29:01 +0000

[...] OPENING A WINE BAR! // The fact that people are LOVING the food at the wine bar. Honestly, the food was an afterthought for us – something we’re required to serve because of the type of liquor license we have. We never intended the food — all vegan food in a decidedly non-vegan town — to be a part of the appeal. But to our absolute delight, people are LOVING this food. I had two people last weekend — both of them omnis of course — tell me that our heirloom tomato and stone fruit salad was the best salad they’d ever had in their life. And the pudlas! People are seriously freaking out over the pudlas. It’s amazing and thrilling and it feels like the best kind of vegan activism I’ve ever done. ♥ // Waking up next to Waits and seeing his smiling face. // A Los Gorditos soy curl fajita burrito, smothered in the orange salsa, which is maybe my singular favorite food on the entire planet. // Also all the other food I ate in Portland. // The fact that I was able to visit Portland not once but TWICE in September. Starting a small business on credit cards is probably a bad idea, but at least you end up with a lot of airline miles, and a lot of free flights! Right? I mean right?? Silver lining? // Waits recently informed me that he wants a new bathing suit. Specifically, a bikini. And I have to say, I really do enjoy the fact that thus far he seems impervious to the influence of our gendered, and gender-normative, culture. I know that it won’t last, but right now I am really enjoying the innocence of it. // The democratic debate and the looming Presidential Election season, yee-haw let’s do this! // Jeremy and I picked up a present for Waits in LA – an ice cube mold that made ice shaped like Star Wars X-Wing Fighter Planes. And after we made the ice, Waits said that he wanted to put the X-Wing cubes inside the salad spinner “to make them fly”, and so we did. It was such a simple and creative little request, and so much fun. And those are the kinds of moments that are really, really making me happy these days. Just those instances, or interactions, amidst the minutia of daily life. Or maybe that’s it – they ARE the minutia of daily life, except they stand out because they are exceptional, and they remind you that daily life – weekly life – yearly – life – our entire lives – are made up of these infinitesimally small moments of divine happiness. If only we can pause to acknowledge them. At least, that was my lesson from Waits and his salad spinning ice planes. And it’s the lesson I’m trying to take to heart, again and again and again these days. ♥ [...]

By: Kristy

Kristy — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:51:00 +0000

Sooooo amazing! I can’t wait to check it out the next time we’re up there! :-)

By: Jared Bigman

Jared Bigman — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 02:22:00 +0000

Huge congrats! So stoked for you both.

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:10:00 +0000

Hi Robyn! I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming in and saying hi, and I’m so sorry that we weren’t able to chat more. Last night was definitely confirmation that we need to hire someone to work in the kitchen. We got so busy! It’s a good thing I guess, but a bummer when I want to be out and talking to people. Anyway, thank you so much for the support, and I hope we’ll get to chat again soon!

Happy soon-to-be-birthday! ♥

By: Judith

Judith — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:36:00 +0000

Oh my goodness! I’m so happy for you guys! This sounds like the perfect place to hang out and I’d love to try allll these amazing wines! Such a beautiful and unique idea! If I ever cross the pond, I’ll definitely step by at your place and have a glass of wine with you guys!
much love,
judith