Walking into this wine store, nestled across the street from Starbucks in the center of Rye, I…read moreexpected to find overpriced trophy wines for the local CEO set. I couldn't have been more wrong! This small store is stocked with carefully curated gems, including offbeat selections that I would have expected had the store instead been in Park Slope or Williamsburg. Inside you'll find bottles of Saint-Bris Sauvignon, Bedrock Old Vine Zinfandel and other surprises. The proprietor who was on duty when I shopped clearly loves his wines and was enthusiastic about every bottle that I touched. I walked away with a half-dozen bottles and fell in love with the first two that I opened when I returned home. Highly recommended!

Happy First Anniversary to new owner Dave! What a great place to find fabulous wines. Small? Yes…read more But, Dave is a wiz at finding just the right wine for any occasion or budget. He has excellent taste. And I super appreciate that every price point in the shop offers fantastic value. Have never been disappointed, and friends who get to sample his selections with us give us compliments all the time at dinner! Here's to many more years of wonderful picks. Thanks Dave!

Rye Beverage really came through for me this past holiday season. I contacted them in late November…read morelooking for a healthy quantity of hard-to-get beer, and it took a couple of weeks, but they were able to get more than I asked for, and right before Christmas. Thank you so much! It was a great surprise gift, and your help finding and securing the beer was well appreciated.

Third time I went out of my way to purchase craft beers at this location, but the owner was…read moreunwilling to sell them because they weren't in the "system." Bad business, don't advertise if you're not willing to make a sale. You lost a customer!

A well-stocked selection of wines and spirits. Reasonable prices. Joe, the owner and Willie, the…read moremanager are very knowledgeable and friendly. They go above and beyond to assist their customers.

Incredible service and very fair prices! Love this place and I am taking all my liquor to Joe and…read morehis entire team!!!!!

I learnt my lesson from last time and put in an order for pickup. I received an email when it was…read moreready for pickup. Due to my schedule, I visited Rye Brook Wine & Spirit Shop 2 weeks later to pick up the order. I spoke with the staff member on the left and informed him that I was here to pick up an order. He told me to wait and he went to the back to grab it. The process was quick and efficient. Prices are definitely reasonable.

wish i had read these reviews. i placed an order. today i asked for eta and was told they do not…read morehave it in stock. hmmm. I asked for a refund and am awaiting a response. i am requesting refund from cc company.

Excellent wine and liquor store. Wide range of product at…read morediscount prices. Parking right outside the store. Highly recommended.

Carts to hold purchases workers to carry boxes to car helpful where to find products aisle signs…read moreindicateing what product is there

For such a small liquor store they have a pretty good selection. I came in to pick up some wines…read moreand a little bubbly. They have a small fridge in the back for pre-chilled liquors. I was surprised to find they had my favorite bottle of sparkling moscato Bartenura on chill. While I was at it I grabbed a bottle of prosecco as well. The prices are only slightly higher than the wine distributor I usually go to. Each bottle came in at about $13 for the 750ml size. I usually pay about $11 at my preferred store. We were the only ones in the store so we got to checkout immediately. I was glad that they accept credit cards though they are still on an older system. The checkout clerk was nice and thanked us on the way out. It's a good place to know about if you are headed to the capital and want to pre-game a bit low budget style. It's very close and they also sell single serve bottles for quick consumption. This was actually the first time I've seen them in plastic squeeze packets lol Those are definitely much easier to sneak into places haha Not that I'd condone that sort of thing ;)

Great vibe!! Food is outstanding. We love the tuna poke bowl…read moreand the sushi cones. Tried the new dessert, cream puff, so good. Also love the homemade ginger ale. Abraham is our usual waiter and he is fantastic. Great food great staff amazing food.

I LOVEEE this spot. the crispy caviar nugget was the most fun bite ever and actually tasted as good…read moreas it sounds. everything was so fresh, came out looking beautiful, and the textures were on point. this is such a "order a bunch and share" place. cozy inside, super nice service, and I'm already thinking about going back just for that nugget again Also the hand towel made my hands awesome!

Excellent wine store located in the Rye Ridge Shopping Center, with a parking lot…read more The knowledgeable and very helpful staff here offer a great selection of wines all reasonably priced. Highly recommended

I went to a Yelp Elite event last night. A beautiful store- The owner and his wine experts set up 5…read morereds and 5 whites both domestic and foreign. They were very friendly and patient explaining each grape and the flavor it produced on the palette. Samples from Portugal, Italy, Spain and of course California. Lovely evening - cozy atmosphere with my fellow elite members and 40% off selected tasting wines. The proprietors offer periodic wine tastings - highly recommended.

They are very rude Especially the women! She act like she…read moredon't want to be there You ask questions she ignores you I now go to the wine vault up the street How is it called Friendly Spirits but the workers/ owners aren't friendly :( I went on two occasions and both times I was treated like this I have many get togethers and always make my friends go to wine vault even though they are much closer

Earlier this week I entered this liquor store with my 2 1/2 year old daughter to buy two bottles of…read morewine. An employee was washing the windows outside and followed me in to help me. I have been a patron of this store on many occasions. The employee, who in the past has been quite helpful, was rude and from the minute I walked in the door and after two very obnoxious comments I explained I was not going to shop somewhere that I was obviously not welcome and left the store. When I left the employee followed to continue to wash the windows. Once outside I commented that the name of the store (Friendly Spirits) was ironic because he was not friendly in the least. He then said to me, "Get out of here you C_ _ _." I will not repeat the word because never in my life have I been so astonished. I stepped towards him and asked, "What did you say to me?" and he repeated himself. I turned to look at the people exchanging cans for coins at the supermarket perpendicular to the store and asked if they had heard what he said and they said they had. I immediately left. Later that day I called the store to speak with a manager or owner because one of the people who saw the interaction said the employee was just that an not a manager or an owner. I spoke with the store manager and asked him to come outside. When he did I relayed the story. He said he found it hard to believe and that I should call back on Wednesday when the owners were at the store. When I called back on Wednesday and spoke with the owner, Joanne, I reiterated the story. She also found it hard to believe but said she would speak with her employee. I asked for her to call me with an apology from him on Friday when he was back in the store. I called back today, Friday, and she told me that her employee said he would not apologize and that she could not make him. This behavior, condoned by the owner of an establishment, is completing unacceptable and if I could involve the police, I would.

From Bordeaux to Boring. This low rating is because Scarsdale has lost Zachy's in the worst way,…read moreafter decades of great wine in an amazing location. The new location leaves much to be desired. It's cold and uninspired. The selections not as broad, and the liquor section still super weak and lack luster. The balcony doesn't make sense. It's too small to walk around comfortably and safely, yet you cannot read any of the nostalgic articles from 10 feet below or three feet in front of you. Poor planning and design. It's small, and not cozy, or modern. It's just a space with wood fixtures and bottles of wine. In Scarsdale, you had architecture, and a "sense-of-place" shopping experience. Where it was a destination for shopping, eating, a quick run to Starbucks. The new location is in some warehouse backroad in the most uninspired area of Port Chester. Why would you choose to create a completely different and alien experience for customers who have built you and your business? Why not move laterally and improve the experience. This feels like a cheap fix. I'm not driving from upstate Connecticut to visit a little store with no personality, and nothing else to do once I get out of my car. Scarsdale provided an amazing walkable experience. Christmas time was magical and "English", charming and traditional. Now it's like "here, thanks for your tens of thousand of dollars, come visit us. Just drive past the dumpster, make a left at the abandoned building, and come to the back of the street next to our huge garage doors." No thanks, Zachy's. I'll go to some random Liquor Depot near me.

Here's the summary: These people will yes you to death and do whatever the hell they feel like…read moredoing after they collect your money. I suggest that potential clients avoid doing business here. Here's a non-summary: I found this outfit by using winesearcher.com to locate a place to make a retail purchase of a particular wine I enjoy. Their customer service desk confirmed that they had a sufficient quantity of the wine in stock, so I ordered two cases and made arrangements to have them held in storage until temperatures in SoCal cooled off sufficiently to allow the wine to arrive without being boiled into non-drinkable vinegar. After about a month, I called and scheduled shipment of my two cases to happen on successive Mondays in November. Historically, I've found that wine shipped from the East Coast on a Monday usually arrives in SoCal the following Friday. Kayla T. assured me that once my wine was shipped, I'd receive an email with tracking info. That was the plan, but what actually happened was nothing - the shipment date we'd previously agreed on came and went, and nothing happened... Long story a little shorter - I called to try and find out what happened, and I got a very dubious story about how the wine had been shipped on schedule. Apparently Elvis had abducted the wine with his alien space ship, then Bill Clinton smoked the original invoice (without inhaling), and then the stories got even sillier.... Fast forward around six weeks after the original ship date came and went to last week. I finally managed to get Kayla T. on the phone, and received an actual tracking number! Needless to say, because they decided to do the shipment on a Wednesday (instead of on the previous Monday as we had discussed), the shipment took more than 10 days to make it to California, but it finally arrived, as did the 2nd case, which was likewise delayed with no explanation.... While I spent WAY too much time figuring out the shipping problems and waiting for my wine to arrive, if the above had been the full extent of my problems with Zachys I probably would have skipped writing a review and simply resolved never to do business with these people again. That said, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the fact that they put me on several of their email lists and refused to remove me despite multiple requests. Adding insult to injury, these email lists don't have an "opt out" built in, so they only way to get their SPAM emails under control was to write filters for my email servers.