Wine bars back in style in New York

New York City is the fine dining capital of the United States, which puts it pretty high up on the world scale as well. New York is always a place to watch for new trends, and this year has displayed a very clear preference for new restaurant openings. It seems the big thing these days is having an eatery centered around wine. Wine bars serving complementary bistro style finger food and snacks.

Even some of New York’s more established and hallowed institutions have recently converted their space to include wine bars, like Le Cirque, a Manhattan mainstay for years. One reason why wine bars and finger food has become popular could be the reasonable start-up costs involved as opposed to opening a full scale restaurant. One new wine bar, Xia Xia, offers customers over 50 different varieties of wine, all from South Africa. The new trend reveals a new interest in wine by New Yorkers, and there seems to be no shortage of bandwagon jumpers.