She's Not Fat, Just "Robust"

Robust Wine Bar is a cute little place in Downtown Webster Groves that looked like just the right place to patronize for a late lunch on a Saturday afternoon. As the name suggests, they specialize in wine, even offering wine "flights" to give a sampling of their offerings. However, we were not interested in mid-afternoon sloth, so we stuck with the unimaginative water and soda.

For lunch or dinner, they offer cheese and charcuterie plates as well as soups, salads, flatbreads, and for dinner, tasting plates. Our blue cheese plate came with a 2 oz piece of domestic blue (or in laymans terms, about the size of a small person's fist) and was given a supporting cast of dates, apricots, almonds and two different kinds of bread. I choose to have a flatbread, which was enough for me, after the giant cheese, for two meals. It featured smoked duck (!) and gruyere. Tim had an interesting twist on the BLT, including yet more blue cheese in a "schmere."
This bar, I think, draws a good crowd on a weekend evening and getting a table may be difficult. I would like to go back and try a wine flight, preferrably when there's not a list of errands to be run afterward.

http://www.robustwinebar.com/