Bodega Wine Bar is all about making wine as unpretentious as possible. The owners opened the bar after searching high and low for "a casual place to grab a glass of wine...somewhere that didn't require us to be wine experts, spend a lot of money, or even talk about wine much (if at all)" but found nothing. Ah - a wine philosophy this wine novice can get behind entirely! So, of course, I had to......

It's taken us years of research, miles of plates, and yards of waistbands to figure this out, but folks, we have found him (or her, but this her happens to be a him). The Best Waiter in Los Angeles (tm). It's not easy being a waiter, especially in this town where about 99% of the waitstaff population are so busy trying to get that guest role on "Two and Half Men" that they don't......