The View Wine Bar & Kitchen

If there was less than 1 star, I would give it to this place.

To all Las Vegas people (if you are not super rich or look a certain way), AVOID and BOYCOTT View Wine Bar & Kitchen at Tivoli. Not only is their food average (at best), but if over a 2.5 hours, you eat, have 4 glasses of water, and consume 2 shots of Vodka, you are too drunk and they cut you off. I was so sober, I was questioning whether the shots were watered down. I have drank lots of places and sometimes more than this, I have never been cut off. The icing on the cake, rather than good customer service and trying to get our group more food and/or water, the manager (if that is what she could be described as) announced to the bar that we were cut off. The bartender was rude to boot. Maybe we don't look like the clientele they are hoping for, but that isn't good business.

I was insulted and treated like garbage. At the beginning of our evening, our bartender looked annoyed that we asked for her by name. She said her name is only important to regular customers. We have money to spend and were treated like crap. I will be glad and hope that many of you will follow suit and take your money and business elsewhere.

So let's avoid the place and spread the word.

Atmosphere is great, food is just so-so.

Come for Happy Hour at the bar area and leave.

My friends and I decided to check out The View last night for happy hour. Unfortunately they do not serve any food at their happy hour. Draft wines for $2 though, are a steal. However the wines are not of the greatest quality. They also serve Stella Artois (on draft) for $3. AS much as I liked the prices, the service was mediocre. My friends and I waited to pay our bills for a good 10 minutes while the one bar server made cheese boards. She literally was away from all of her bar patrons for a good 5-7 minutes. In bar time - that is a really long time not to be able to talk to the people at your bar and get them more drinks.

We then were seated in the dining area, which is really nice and open with awesome chairs that made me feel like I could sit there for hours. We also got a pretty awesome spot in front of a window in front of Tivoli's fountain.

I found their wine menu to be somewhat of a disappointment. Yes, they offer a decent variety, but when I think "Wine Bar" I was expecting a booklet, not a page. Also, wines from France were sorely missing. There was only two, one of which you could only order per bottle. California and Washington varietals are center stage here. I ordered the "dryer" Riesling for $13, which I thought was decent enough, although I've had better.

Food - I wanted the 5 Cheese Soup, but was informed they were out, in a hurry, and not really thinking, I ordered the Tomato Soup instead. What I was served was a puddle of tomato soup in a huge bowl. I will honest-to-God say the bowl had 6 spoonfuls of soup in it. At $6 a pop for a sip of soup I found it to be a huge let-down. Be conscious the style here is "tapas", small plates for sharing, but really, was I going to share my 6-spoonfuls of soup? Hell no I wanted a bowl of soup!

I also had the "Green Eggs and Ham" Carbonara, which was delicious. The sauces were perfect, the addition of the egg was perfect. The crispy pork belly was not crispy. It was a lump of pork, flaccid and not up to par. I wish I had gotten an entire plate, again, I was severely disappointed at the size of my pasta, especially considering I was STILL hungry after I had finished it. I was wishing I had gone to Brio across the street and paid the same exact amount of money and gotten a huge-ass plate of spaghetti.

I like the idea, but I do not like the execution of The View. I will always compare tapas (no matter what they are) to Firefly, and Firefly beats this place out hands down a million times over. Also, Nosh & Swig, a place that also does "American" tapas is better than The View with cheaper prices and better quality/quantity of food presentation.

Service in the dining area was okay, but somewhat awkward. We were given a horrible "appetizer" (for free...) that consisted of cold peanuts, a thin slice of radish, a weird dried-out carrot, and what I think was two celery sticks. Mind you, there were three girls sitting at my table, whatever would we want with this weird concoction of "food"?

Service - 3/5
Food - 2.5/5
Ambiance - 4/5

I will not make a return trip. There are places with better wine and better food that will not leave me yearning for an Inn N Out burger after my meal.