The Hidden Vine

Seems to be closed for now, if not permanently?  We wanted to try The Hidden Vine on Saturday night - the phone is off and it was dark/empty.  There are no announcements on their fb page or website - hope everything is alright and that they will be reopening soon!

Would recommend calling before you show up!   :o)

A nice job by a cutsey little wine bar, relatively new to downtown Newington. I'd say their number one attraction is atmosphere - they definitely play it up with the wood, marble, lighting, fancy furniture and adornments, etc. We stopped by for some drinks, of course, and were reasonably pleased.

I will say, -1 star because the wine bottle list doesn't exactly run the gamut on price. They start at $28, which is not for the faint of heart or wallet. I didn't check, but I can only assume these bottom of the list bottles are selling for $8-10 at the closest liquor store.

Still, it was a nice little luxury, and the bottles we ordered were very professionally served... big honking glasses and what not. Maybe we'll be back for food sometime.

Had the steak, a panini, and some ravioli if I remember correctly--Last year. They were all lick your plate clean amazing!
Then we came this year and were just confused. I ordered the same steak and it came out covered in some odd red sauce that reminded me of a slow cooker meal. It was chewy and had a weird flavor. I'm not sure if this was the "carmelized shallot demi glaze" that the menu stated I would be getting but YUCK! The chicken francise that we had was mediocre at best. Brushetta was okay, but how can you really mess that up. I'm not sure what happened, but we will not be returning.
I also had friends that went and said they had so much trouble using their groupon, it took longer than the actual meal to figure it out and they were also grossed out by the steak.