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The chicken cutlet at Wine Dive, 1534 Sansom St., on Nov. 7, 2025.
The chicken cutlet at Wine Dive, 1534 Sansom St., on Nov. 7, 2025.Read moreMichael Klein / Staff

Wine Dive

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If you call your bar a “dive bar,” is it really a dive bar? Especially if the beers, wines, and cocktails are playfully irreverent and unpretentiously sophisticated? Probably not. But the new Wine Dive, in a former nail salon off 16th and Sansom in Rittenhouse, is a fun, boisterous hangout nonetheless, with a tongue-in-cheek attitude and a killer menu that’s many, many levels above the dirty-water hot dog/reheated pizza level at a typical dive.

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Restaurant Details

1534 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA, 19102
https://www.winedive.com/