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Getting Served: Vinoteca

By Dr. Bombay

After a long day of grinding away on our Torts outline, Team Hypo decided to go out for a little R&R last night. Master of Ceremonies Sally Proust selected a new wine bar ? Vinoteca ? located on U Street. D.C. has experienced a proliferation of wine bars as of late, and Sally and Pakistani Princess have made it their mission in life to try them all. I consider their opinion dispositive, and thus feel confident when I say that Vinoteca was utter rubbish.

The food was adequate. The buffalo sliders (little hamburgers) were well prepared and tasty, and my rockfish was exceedingly fresh. On the downside, my salad was served on a warm plate, Sally?s mussels came without a bowl for shells, and the sweet potato ravioli that she and Pakistani Princess spilt tasted like ?baby food.? The wine list was substantial, but didn?t have a lot of interesting varietals, and some of the pricing was out of this world. ($88 for a bottle of Stag?s Leap Cabernet Sauvignon. Yikes!)

But all this could be forgiven. I?ve had forgettable meals in blah places before, which were made up for by my dinner companions. Vinoteca makes that impossible however. If you?ve ever wondered what it would be like to go to a wine bar located on the floor of a saw mill in the middle of North Carolina, in August, Vinoteca is for you. Sweet Jesus Almighty, the din in the place was unreal. And it was hot. So there we sat, sweating, eating mediocre food, and shouting at each other across a small table. Needless to say, dinner was wrapped up quickly, and we beat a hasty retreat.

Rating: 1 Tortfeasor (out of 4)

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Full post as published by Fight The Hypo on April 20, 2008 (boomark / email).