Opened on October 23, 2004, Cyrano Wine Shop is easily the most unconventional wine shop in town.

Shall we count the ways?

Take our unusual operating hours. We try to open by 5:00 p.m. every day, though admittedly we have been known on occasion to (ahem!) open an hour or so late when we feel like it.

Or consider that wine manager who runs the place along with his sister, Cris, and business partners Ric, Joco and Cecile. Let’s just say that they run the ship as they see fit and our patrons are all the better for it.

But if we had to choose just one special thing about Cyrano, it has to be that, in all honesty, we don’t really have customers. We just have friends.

It’s these friends, after all, who insist that ours is much more than a wine shop. With a glass of wine in one hand and a platter of Jumbo Liempo in the other, they will proudly tell you that Cyrano is their “my space” place. Forget about home. This is their living room and pantry rolled into one, their own comfy little pad where they can kick up their feet on a couch and watch another episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. Prefer to watch a concert? Pop in the “Boz Scaggs Greatest Hits Live” DVD and things are really cooking.

Ah, the Cyrano friends lifestyle…

Of course, as with any living room, we have a few house rules that need to be remembered:

• We only sell wines that we like. If we don’t like it, we won’t carry it.
• We’re a “T-shirt & blue jeans” kind of place, so dress as comfortably as you please. With modesty, of course.
• Wine lovers are welcome. Wine snobs are not. If you’re the latter, leave your ego at the door… or else.
• We are a wine shop, NOT a restaurant. We encourage you to B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Baon) and to share with us. Mmm… smooth, creamy Stilton and stinky Époisses, duck confit, Serrano ham, assorted cold cuts… get the picture? Hey, food delivery by phone is just as cool, so ask for our delivery menu.
• We reserve the right to toss out malcontents. Drunks, however, may be welcomed in on a case to case basis.

So enjoy hanging out with us at Cyrano, good friends. We have a good thing going here.