Our Story
Three names.One table.
A South Bay restaurant family, a winemaker with a storytelling habit, and the neighborhood that keeps both honest.
Chapter I — Simms
The restaurantsyou already love.
Simms Restaurants has spent decades doing one thing in the South Bay: serving happiness. Ten restaurants — from MB Post’s social house and Fishing with Dynamite’s raw bar to The Arthur J’s steaks, RYLA, AttaGirl, Tin Roof Bistro, and every Simmzy’s in between — each with its own personality, all with the same instinct for hospitality.
The Wine Club is that instinct, formalized. Not a new venture bolted on — the same people, the same rooms, one more way to say we know you.
Chapter II — Gestalt × Dave Phinney
A winemaker witha storytelling habit.
Dave Phinney created The Prisoner and Orin Swift Cellars; Robert Parker called him “one of the most talented winemakers of our time.” As Creative Director of Gestalt Wine Company, he makes our wines — and he makes them about something.
Gestalt treats wine as a medium for telling stories, provoking thought, and sparking connection. Every release is a complete thought — the wine, the label, the packaging, sometimes a zine — designed as one experience. That’s why our bottles have names like Broken Swallowtail and Safe Word instead of pretentious French appellations.
The release library →Chapter III — The South Bay
Geography isthe whole point.
This club doesn’t ship nationwide, and that’s on purpose. Two hundred-plus members who live, work, and gather right here — Manhattan Beach, Hermosa, Redondo, Palos Verdes, El Segundo. The person at the next table at a launch party is, in the most literal sense, your neighbor.
So the club stays intentionally sized, the events stay walkable, and the wine stays an excuse — the good kind — to keep ending up at the same tables together.
The next bottle isalready resting.
The club stays intentionally sized so the experience stays personal. If now isn’t your moment, that’s all right — the patio isn’t going anywhere.