Offhand Wine Bar is a wine bar in Mid City, Santa Monica.
Editorially verified August 18, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Lunch and dinner plates
Tip: Friday and Saturday it holds the corner till midnight, rare for this stretch; lunch service makes it a day-drinking sleeper.
Address: 3008 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite A, Santa Monica, CA 90404
AJA Vineyards pours its Malibu Coast AVA estate wines in a 2nd Street tasting room in Santa Monica, flights and glasses beside boards of cheese and snacks.
Signature pour: Malibu Coast estate flight
Wine focus: Malibu Coast AVA estate wines
Food: Artisanal snacks and grazing boards
Tip: Happy hour knocks 5 dollars off flights Wednesday to Friday 15:00-18:00; outside food is allowed for a 15 dollar fee.
Sogno Toscano stacks an espresso bar, Italian market and wine bar into one Montana Avenue corner in Santa Monica, panini by day and aperitivo by night.
Signature pour: Tuscan red with a Bufalina panino
Wine focus: Tuscan producers and Italian classics
Food: Panini, salumi and market plates
Tip: Bookable wine tastings run in the evenings; otherwise take a Bufalina panino and a glass at the window.
Lady & Larder builds California cheese boards and stacked deli sandwiches on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, a sister-run shop with serious wine to go.
Signature pour: Board-friendly California chenin
Wine focus: California small growers, bottles to go
Food: Cheese boards and deli sandwiches
Tip: Sandwiches like the Hot Girl Salami sell out before 14:00; order boards for pickup a day ahead.
Xuntos fills a 1926 Art Deco building in downtown Santa Monica with Sandra Cordero's Galician tapas, razor clams, percebes and vermouth over two floors.
Signature pour: Vermouth on tap, poured over ice
Wine focus: Spanish wines, vermouth and Basque cider
Food: Galician pintxos and tapas
Tip: The menu runs from jamon iberico to Galician empanadas; ask for the mezzanine seats above the bar.
Crudo e Nudo runs a chalkboard of daily raw fish on Main Street in Santa Monica, chef Brian Bornemann dry-aging ikejime catch from Baja up to Monterey.
Signature pour: Chilled biodynamic white with the crudo flight
Wine focus: Biodynamic small producers for raw fish
Food: Daily crudo and sustainable seafood
Tip: Wine director Simona Topuzovska pours biodynamic small growers; the daily happy hour 15:00-17:00 is the value window.
Wally's runs a wine shop, cheese counter and restaurant under one Wilshire Boulevard roof in Santa Monica, a by-the-glass list beside the retail wall.
Signature pour: Ask the floor team what is open from the retail wall
Wine focus: Deep by-the-glass list beside a retail wall
Food: Cheese counter and full restaurant menu
Tip: Anything on the retail wall can be drunk at the table for corkage; the cheese counter builds boards to order.
