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Join us, once again, for our 6th Annual Beaujolais Nouveau Release Party in conjunction with Vista Lights! Every year, on the third Thursday of November, we celebrate the release of Georges DuBoeuf's Beaujolais Nouveau with a giant party full of French food, French wines, ridiculous French accents, berets and French maids! Like last year, we have doubled our capacity by adding a GIANT PARTY TENT in the parking lot that will be filled with more food, Emmanuel the Crepier, LIVE JAZZ and lots more wine! We'll be giving away prizes thoughout the evening, including bottles of wine, t-shirts and more!

So, plan on taking Friday off, grab a beret and join us for one of the best parties of the year! No reservations. No tickets. Just show up and party like a French rock star!

Thursday, November 20th beginning at 5PM

Welcome to Gervais & Vine, Columbia's premiere wine and tapas bar. Located in the beautiful Congaree Vista, Gervais & Vine is a Spanish-styled tapas bar with culinary influences from all across the Mediterranean. In addition to over forty wines by-the-glass, we also offer a wide selection of craft beers and top-shelf spirits. As our guests, you are free to enjoy a small bite or load your table with many different tapas to share without ever running out of choices. We have beautiful outdoor seating and a lively bar area in addition to a more intimate area of seating. Like nearly every tapas bar in the world, we do not take reservations. We hold wine tastings, winemaker dinners and many other special events that revolve around food, drink and fun. You can find them on the Happenings page. We also have a Wine Club that introduces members to new and exciting wines they normally wouldn't seek out. Thank you for visiting our website and please contact us if you have any questions.

at our soon-to-be-open restaurant, Rosso!

NOW SERVING LUNCH

Monday through Friday from 11:30 until 2:00

READ OUR RECENT REVIEW IN The State Newspaper HERE

Here is our current Lunch Menu (pdf) which will stay the same for the rest of the season. We'll also have specials each day, which Chef Henry will decide on once he knows what products he's got coming in from our purveyors. In addition to this menu, we'll also offer many of our most popular tapas, like our Seared Scallops with Three Sauces, Petit Filet Mignon with Feta and Balsamic and more.

Our second supervillain is The Spoiler, submitted by Greg Hardy. Here's his story...

Growing up, Rafael Gardner had a dad who ran a produce stand. The worst thing that could happen to food is that it would get SPOILED. His dad would go ballistic if food got spoiled. Thus, Rafael always associated rotten food with a miserable mood.

In his early 20s, Rafael studied to become a caterer. He wanted everyone to have a good time. But at his first wedding reception, a Bridezilla got upset that the wrong wine was ordered. So she smashed a bottle onto his head. He fell face-first into a pot of Italian Wedding soup. The combination of the rare wine and exotic soup spices got into his bloodstream through his lacerated scalp, and a transformation took place.

As THE SPOILER, Rafael can emit pheromones that turn gourmet food into tasteless mush. He can alter the pleasure centers of people's brains, so that if they were having a good time, they're now depressed. But worst of all, he has a horrible, evil cackle that can send shivers down the spine of everyone at a party.

Now, The Spoiler wants to be the only guy in the room who's having a good time. If other people are laughing, he wants it stopped. He's ready to spoil it for everyone.

His arch enemies are Captain Happy and the Merry Pranksters. He vows that one day he will destroy their disco party bus.

His costume is a purple and brown tunic with a cape whose color has often been described as "monkey vomit green." His mask is a sort of death skull with short gray tusks shooting out of the forehead. From 10 feet away, you can tell he smells like Bigfoot's soiled underpants.

The Spoiler's catch phrases: "Spoiler alert!" ... "Warning! Spoilers ahead!" ... "Don't get fresh with me!"

While in his lair, The Spoiler will cooly stroke the white fur of his cat Sourpuss.

His musical idol? Johnny Rotten.

Ride of choice: An '89 Honda Civic with a tricked-out spoiler tacked to the trunk.

The only food impervious to his spoiling powers and with the ability to bring him to his knees? Mentos, the Fresh-Maker.

Captain FAB is the first openly gay superhero and he is not one to be trifled with. While he has absolutely flawless skin (deeply tanned), perfectly coiffed hair and rock-hard abs, he is one of the most powerful superheros to ever flutter over the streets of Gotham.

Adopted by a same-sex couple back in the days when it wasn't kosher to do so, young Todd Fairweather led the priveleged life of a child whose parents both had high-level positions in their fields of science and fashion. He always had the best clothes, was a star athlete and was BY FAR the best singer and dancer in school, always taking the lead roles for all the school plays.

However, he always felt empty inside and it wasn't until he "knew" he was gay that he began to see the injustices in the world. At that moment, young Todd Fairweather also KNEW he had to make a difference.

With the help of his supportive parents, he began the transformation into Captain FABulous. His super-scientist mother set in motion a dangerous regimen of gamma ray treatments on Todd, which gave him the ability to transfer the positive and helpful attitude he held dear to his heart to those who needed it. Because of the high doses of gamma rays, this beam comes out of his palm as a bright and shining rainbow. (It wasn't planned that way...it was just luck on his part).

His other mother immediately went to work on multiple superhero suits (a boy can't have just ONE), each one tailored with special fabrics by the world's top designers, including Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior and other luminaries. The wings were a collaboration between the moms and while they were intended to soar, keeping them fashionable meant they had to downsize the motor, relegating Captain FAB to fluttering about like a butterfly. While it may take him a while to get somewhere, he DOES get there...fashionably late, of course.

His superpowers make nearly every supervillain cower in fear. With a rainbow blast from his hand, he can transfer his inner strengths and attributes directly to his opponents, usually rendering them completely and utterly gay. Instead of wanting to blow up buildings, they'll simply want to redecorate them or go shopping or clubbing. At the very least, they'll usually upgrade their costumes. Sometimes, he only turns them 'metro'. (The next time you meet a very 'metro' man, you may be in the presence of a former supervillain.) Actually, many of Captain FAB's best friends used to be his arch-enemies, but they were no match for him and now realize his way of life is whole lot more fun.

His arch-enemy is Rhonda the Lumberjack. His powers seem to be completely useless on Rhonda, who stands five foot six and weighs nearly a ton. Rhonda doesn't have 'big bones', she has actual tree stumps for limbs. She wears flannel shirts ALL THE TIME, as well as a pair of completely hideous boots that don't even match her belt. Rhonda's idea of a good time is destroying Captain FAB's secret Zen garden that he has on the roof of his loft condo while she's drunk on gallons of Coors Light.

The only way Captain FAB has been able to deal with her is to contantly carry a sedative-soaked hot wing in his gorgeous Louis Vuitton utility belt (I hate calling it a 'utility' belt. It is SO not utility) which he tosses to Rhonda. Since she cant' resist a hot wing, she is usually asleep within a minute. Then, Captain FAB has to call a bunch of friends over to try to drag her heavy ass out of there.

Captain FAB's sidekick is Giorgio, his parrot. Since Captain FAB can't get to where he needs to go very quickly, Giorgio usually flies there ahead of him and keeps the supervillains entertained with witty quotes like "Who told you that costume looked good on your body type" and "Does my butt look big in this leotard?".

When he isn't saving the world, mildly-fabulous Todd Fairweather can be found managing the Banana Republic store at your local mall.

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