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| Grapes Restaurant ● Bar at 111 Main St., Jerome, AZ |
Great Grapes in Jerome
Grapes Restaurant
● Bar in Jerome, AZ offers casual
dining with an upscale experience by Carl Jackson | Sedona.biz As a copper mining town throughout the late 1800's and into the
early 1900's, Jerome was the quintessential wild west town boasting
a population of 15,000 (about 500 at present).
Leveled four
times in the late 1800's by fires, Jerome was continually rebuilt.
It became a ghost town in the 1950's when the ore ran out and the
mines were shut down. In the 1960's and 70's a
counter-culture of hippies, craftsmen, artists, and musicians
rediscovered Jerome as an inexpensive place to live. In recent
years, art boutiques have popped up, many specializing in copper
crafts.
Grapes Restaurant
● Bar at 111 Main Street has
perfectly captured the mixture of wild west and art nouveau
that has become Jerome.
As a wine bar, it boasts a wide
selection of fine wines. On the menu, each food item is paired
with a recommended choice of wine identified by its Bin #, making
wine selection easy. The wine is lined up behind a beautiful
dark wood, mirrored bar that in days of old would have sported
whisky bottles. On a large sign in front of the restaurant it
reads, "The best kind of wine is that which is pleasant to him that
drinks it."
On the wall at the left as you enter the restaurant is a large
painted montage of a rowdy western saloon entitled "Jerome Repass."
If you close your eyes, you can almost hear the loud laughter and
clinking glasses; and smell the whisky and smoke. In reality, the restaurant is neat and clean. The menu is reasonably priced with luncheon plates ranging from
$8.25 to $10.25 and the dinner items ranging from $13.75 to $16.25.
Monday thru Friday from 5pm-9pm all wines by the glass are $5.
At lunch, I had the combination plate that consisted of soup and two
mini-sandwiches for $8.25. My sandwich choices were Sonoma
Chicken Salad and Salami, Pesto & Provolone. The food was good and the service friendly. Other menu choices range from pasta and pizza to an Ahi Tuna
Burger at lunch to Chicken Saltimbocca for dinner (two chicken
breasts layered with prosciutto, fresh mozzarella and basil). The building was originally the telegraph and Pony Express
station built in the early 1900's. In 1920 it became the Reese
and Amster White Garage and Machine Shop. In the 40's it was
changed to a Shell station servicing travelers on historic
89A. Later it became the Jerome Volunteer Fire Dept. until
1996 when Eric and Michelle Jurisin, the owners of the Haunted
Hamburger in Jerome, opened the Jerome Brewery and, most recently,
converted it to Grapes. For casual dining with an upscale experience, consider Grapes Restaurant
● Bar at 111 Main Street in
Jerome, AZ.
Jerome, AZ - Since its incorporation in 1889, Jerome, Arizona
has had a storied and eclectic history.
The bar at
Grapes Restaurant
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Bar at 111 Main St., Jerome, AZ
Painting entitled "Jerome Repass" behind two customers at Grapes Restaurant
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Bar at 111 Main St., Jerome, AZ
Fine wine on display at Grapes Restaurant
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Bar at 111 Main St., Jerome, AZ