Grinds & Wines

RESEARCH-BASED REVIEW, NOT A FIRST-HAND VISIT. Everything below comes from the public sources listed at the end, accessed on 2026-10-11. No one from this site has eaten here for this review. Food-quality scores rely on public signals and are provisional.

Scorecard

Score change (2026-10-11): new review → 7.5. Why: first scored review of this business (no previous score).

Quick facts

• Address: 290 Highway 74 N, Peachtree City, GA 30269 [1][4]
• Phone: 770.486.6390 [4]
• Hours (as published): Sunday 11 AM–9 PM; closed Monday; Tuesday onward from 11 AM [4]
• Ownership: “locally owned and operated” (its own description) [4]

The short version

• Tripadvisor 4.4/209 (#3 of 134); Google-derived 4.5/599; Restaurantji 4.4/254 [3][5][2].
• Health: 85 (Dec 2024) → 90 → 94 → 94/A (2026-07-09), but the latest has repeat facility/pest-control items [1].
• Outdoor patio; full-service bar [4].
• Good for: casual dinners, patio drinks. Maybe not for: Monday plans.

What the restaurant offers

“Known for our fish tacos,” plus a broad bar-and-grill menu, full-service bar and daily specials [4].

What customers say

Consistent 4.4–4.5 across about 1,060 ratings [3][5][2]. Restaurantji’s service sub-score is 4.7 [2].

Credentials & red-flag check

• Repeat items on the two latest inspections (see table).

Georgia DPH food-service inspections, last 24 months (official portal ga.healthinspections.us, facility “Grinds & Wines”, permit FSP-056-000228 [1]). Georgia grades: A = 90–100, B = 80–89, C = 70–79, U = 69 or below (unsatisfactory).

Health & safety rubric score: 7/10. Rule used for every restaurant: base on the latest routine score (95+ → 9, 90–94 → 8, 85–89 → 7, 80–84 → 6, 70–79 → 5, under 70 → 3); −1 for another C-range result or −2 for another unsatisfactory result in the window; +1 if a follow-up after a sub-90 routine scored 95+; −1 if the latest routine has 2+ repeat violations. Provisional-permit (pre-opening) inspections are listed but not scored. Applied here: latest routine 94/100 (A) on 2026-07-09; 2 repeat violations on the latest routine (−1).

Pricing

The /menu page did not show prices when read 2026-10-11 [4]. Not verified.

Other review platforms (checked 2026-10-11)

Blocked or unavailable: Yelp (bot check), Restaurant Guru (served a “verify you are human” page after three fetches; we stopped and used only the three pages read before that), and official sites behind Cloudflare. We did not get around any bot check. Ratings marked “Google-derived” come from Exa Places or Restaurant Guru pages that republish Google Maps data; they were read directly but are third-party copies.

What recent reviewers say (keyword analysis)

• Window: 2024-10-11 to 2026-10-11 (last 24 months). Sample: 7 reviews, dated 2025-06-20 to 2026-02-16. Sources: Exa Places (Google-derived).
• Top compliments: food good (2), atmosphere (2), service good / attentive (1).
• Top complaints: long wait (1).
• Recent-experience score (RCE): 6.8/10 (5 positive vs 1 negative theme mentions; samples under 10 reviews are pulled toward a neutral 5; n=0 gives exactly 5). Only reviews visible on the pages read are counted; this is not a random sample, and aggregator snapshots show only a few reviews each. Search snippets were not counted.

Score breakdown (restaurant rubric §5.1)

The rubric weights below make up 90% of the score; recent customer experience (keyword analysis) is the other 10%. Overall is capped at 9.0. Unknown criteria score 5. See /how-we-score/. | Criterion | Weight | Score | Evidence | |—|—|—|—| | Food quality (provisional) | 30% | 8 | 4.4–4.5 across ~1,060 ratings [3][5][2] | | Service | 20% | 8 | Service sub-score 4.7 [2] | | Value & price transparency | 15% | 6 | Menu page without prices [4] | | Reputation consistency | 15% | 8 | Consistent across three sources | | Health & safety (GA DPH) | 10% | 7 | Rule-based from the DPH history below; latest routine 94/100 (A) on 2026-07-09 | | Atmosphere, access & convenience | 10% | 8 | Patio; published hours; closed Monday [4] | | Recent customer experience (keyword analysis, last 24 months) | 10% | 6.8 | n=7; 5 positive vs 1 negative theme mentions | | Overall | | 7.5 | 0.9 × 7.60 (weighted average of the rubric rows) + 0.1 × 6.8 = 7.520 → 7.5 |

Bottom line

A dependable local hangout with good service ratings. Posting prices and clearing the repeat inspection items would lift it.

Sources (accessed 2026-10-11)

1. Georgia DPH food-service inspection portal, facility “Grinds & Wines” (permit FSP-056-000228), inspection history via the portal’s public data endpoint. https://ga.healthinspections.us/stateofgeorgia/ (record: https://ga.healthinspections.us/stateofgeorgia/API/index.cfm/inspectionsData/MzEyNjI4MQ==)
2. Restaurantji page for Grinds & Wines. https://www.restaurantji.com/ga/peachtree-city/grinds-and-wines-/
3. Tripadvisor page for Grinds & Wines. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g35179-d889006-Reviews-Grinds_Wines-Peachtree_City_Georgia.html
4. Official website. https://www.grindsandwines.com/
5. Exa Places listing (Google-derived), Grinds and Wines. https://exa.ai/library/place/rxbmdgzkycq

Research-based, not a first-hand visit. Data labeled “unconfirmed” (search snippets, machine summaries) is shown for context only and never moves a score.

Disclosure: no compensation, free meals, discounts, or affiliate relationship. Nothing here was published or sent to the business. Found an error? See /corrections. How we score: /how-we-score/.