Nosmo King: Restaurant: Max's Wine Dive

Big poppa's celebratory bash. Take two. What equals success? I think in this case, it might have been the dark red liquid that came pouring out of big poppa's mouth and onto my lawn. Ick! If I wasn't aware of the happenings that took place earlier, I would have thought that this guy was puking blood! What a sick vampire! As the worst gf evar that I am, my tired soul in the freezing night could only shout out words of dis-encouragement. Squat down! You're splattering throw-up all over your shoes! Hurry up! Are you done yet! It's cold out here! Haha. Kinda makes you wanna date me huh? So, I did planned a wine night for big poppa and all his boys. I looked up a bunch of places and finally decided on Max's Wine Dive. My reason was three fold. First. They served wine. That was a must. Duh. Second. I wanted a place that offered food. Check. And thirdly, this place opened late. Those were my criteria but what sealed the deal was that Max's had chicken & dumplings on their menu. Big poppa LOVES chicken & dumplings. He has yet to find a place in Houston that has chicken & dumplings as good as this one place in Dallas. So when I saw it on the menu, I knew we just had to come here. I made reservations early on in the week. I even stopped by early Saturday morning to drop off the cake that I got him and made sure my reservations still existed. I wanted everything to go perfectly! Cos that's how I do it. I'm a perfectionist. Like Madonna. That's why I always sing her songs when I karaoke. Upon arrival, I realized that reservations mean absolutely nothing. The place is small and it gets SUPER packed. This place is happening I tell ya! I had to wait about thirty minutes for them to have my table ready, and even so, I didn't get the small area in the back that the hostess misguided me into thinking that I was going to get when I first made the reservation in person. I was there. She pointed at these group of tables and said this is where you will be. Girls are so sneaky and such big liars sometimes. Haha. I kid. But I get it. The place is constantly packed. They want to make the money. Whatevs. My other complaint is the parking is very unavailable. Your only option is to basically valet. Luckily it's complimentary. But see, I did not know that it was complimentary and drove around and around to find free parking since I hate everything that has to do with valet. I mean. Even though it's complimentary, you still gotta tip. I ordered a medley of appetizers for our whole group. Fried alligator, ribs, fries and mac & cheese. I didn't try the alligator but everything else was REALLY good. I LOVED their mac & cheese. And their ribs. The fries came with this dipping sauce that was super good. I had their fried chicken and I would have to give a thumbs up to that. Big poppa however did not like their chicken & dumplings. Prices pretty much sucked. Way to expensive! I paid for the first three bottles of wine which got the party started. People started getting a good buzz which escalated into obnoxious inebriation. Seriously. Wine is supposed to be slowly sipped and enjoyed. These guys were literally taking swigs from their glasses and then chugging it like it was beer. Crazy boys. So of course, only bad decisions can be made while intoxicated. Our waiter seized the moment and began suggesting these bottles of wine that were like a hundred bucks or more. Several of the guys bought the bottles. By the end of the night, our bill totalled more than a grand. It was insane! But it wasn't that bad since everyone paid for one bottle each. Besides, it was big poppa's birthday. He's got great friends who wouldn't think twice about the money and big poppa would do the same for them in an instant. I can NOT stand cheap people! Man. Aren't I quite the verbose one today. So in the end, big poppa had purple mouth syndrome and was mad drunk. I think most of the guys told us that they couldn't even remember the drive home. Scary! It's fun to do this once in awhile. But it's such a waste of money. Especially when you know you could get those same bottles of wine at like 1/100th of the price. Oh wells. Life goes on and big poppa had a great time. That's the most important thing of all.

The birthday boy.

This was pretty much how big poppa was allllll night long.

They had some awesome art on the walls.

This bottle of wine was $120. Our table got two of them. And I don't even know who bought them. I hope we paid for it. Hah! But check out the label. By far the coolest wine bottle I've ever seen.