Where Wine Becomes an Experience
Born from a passion for discovery. Built for the guest who wants more than a glass.
A love of wine. A belief it shouldn't be intimidating.
The Wine Room was founded by Bruce Simberg in Winter Park, Florida in 2006 — not as a fine dining concept, but as something the American dining scene was missing: a place where any guest could explore the world's greatest wines without committing to a bottle, without needing a sommelier's vocabulary, and without the pressure that usually comes with a serious wine list.
The idea was elegantly simple. Put 180+ wines on tap using state-of-the-art preservation machines, serve them in three pour sizes — a one-ounce taste, a half glass, a full pour — and let guests discover what they love at their own pace.
That original Winter Park location earned the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence six consecutive years. When the concept came to Delray Beach — to a storied 8,000-square-foot space on Atlantic Avenue — it brought everything the original had built, and went further.
180+
Wines by the Glass
26
Preservation Machines
3
Pour Sizes per Wine
8,000
Square Feet
The wall that changes how you think about wine.
Twenty-six Enomatic preservation machines line the floor, each holding wines at precise temperature and pressure — protecting every open bottle so the last pour is as good as the first. The result is a live, rotating selection of 180+ wines available by the glass, every day.
Sparkling. Champagne. White. Rosé. Red. Dessert. Producers from Napa, Burgundy, Barossa, Rioja, and beyond. Pour a one-ounce taste of something unfamiliar. Fall in love with it. Buy the bottle. Take it home.
This is how wine is meant to be discovered — one small pour at a time, with no wrong answers.
Awards & Accolades
Wine Spectator
Best of Award of Excellence
The Best of Award of Excellence is Wine Spectator's middle tier — awarded only to restaurants demonstrating outstanding depth, significant regional breadth, and vertical representation across vintages. It is one of the most recognized wine program distinctions in the hospitality industry. The Wine Room's original Winter Park location earned it six consecutive years. The Delray Beach location carries that same standard forward.
World Record
Wines by the Glass
With 180+ wines simultaneously available by the glass through 26 Enomatic preservation machines, The Wine Room Delray Beach is recognized as one of the largest wine-by-the-glass programs in the world. No comparable program — in breadth of selection, preservation technology, or pour flexibility — exists at this scale in South Florida.
Max McCalman
Maître Fromager · James Beard Award–Winning Author
The Wine Room's cheese and charcuterie program was designed and developed by Max McCalman — the first Maître Fromager in a North American restaurant, honored by the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers. His book on artisan cheese won the 2006 James Beard Award for Best Reference Book. McCalman curates our fromage cave and leads monthly wine and cheese pairing events at the Delray Beach location.
As Seen In
Press & Media
- Palm Beach Illustrated
- Food & Beverage Magazine
- Boca Raton Observer
- Broward Palm Beach New Times
- Orlando Magazine
- AroundWellington.com
- Check Please! South Florida
A fromage cave on Atlantic Avenue.
Most wine bars offer cheese as an afterthought. Ours is curated by the first Maître Fromager in North American restaurant history. Max McCalman designed our entire program — the fromage cave, the named flights, the pairings — to do exactly what the wines do: take guests somewhere they've never been.
From a sharp Zamorano with a Rioja to Délice de Bourgogne alongside a glass of Champagne, every selection on our board has a wine match in mind. Cheeses sourced from England, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Holland, Australia, and across the U.S. Named flights include the Truffle Palooza, Vive La France, Taste of Iberia, and Max's Flight.
The building has always had a story.
The space at 411 E Atlantic Avenue was built in 1925 by architect Samuel Ogren. It housed the Arcade Tap Room — a Prohibition-era institution where polo players, cartoonists, and rumrunners drank alongside guests including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gary Cooper, and Gloria Swanson. The building has never quite lost that energy.
Today, through a door beyond the cellar, that history lives on as Radcliffe's Speakeasy. A separate bar with its own identity: low ceilings, velvet, candlelight, and a cocktail program built with the same obsessive precision as the wine wall. Ten original cocktails, a house barrel-pick bourbon, and a room that rewards those who find it.
Open Friday and Saturday nights. Accessible through The Wine Room.
One destination. Many ways in.
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