Sette

Rebecca Behan

Citysearch

In Short
Take a cue from its namesake, the Italian municipality of Barbaresco, and indulge in la dolce vita. Chelsea locals, couples, and the after-work crew choose from more than 250 Italian wines, grouped by region, on a delightfully oversized menu. Aiming to please a mid-market crowd, there's no snobbery here. A standard $8 glass gives way to a variety of bottled options for around $30 to $40. A faux nod to Tuscany warms the four seating areas, while flat-screen TVs ensure that fans of sport and cinema can fill up in more ways than one.

Hits: The gleaming high-tech cruvinet (a wine preservation system) behind the bar keeps uncorked bottles fresh, allowing by-the-glass drinkers an opportunity to explore higher-end wines without shelling out the extra cash for a bottle.

Misses: With less than expert advise like, "the older one is probably better," some of the waitstaff could use more wine training, the lack of which which only compounds the difficulty of trying to navigate the menu's tiny font in the dimly lit room.