If you keep an open tab with the bar, be wary of extraneous charges on your card! I ordered three drinks and was given one recent for them when I closed the tab. But a few days later, found two additional $4 charges on my card. Next time I go to support my BF's band, I'm paying in cash and LEAVING NO TIP.
Otherwise my experience at the bar was fine.
Stopped in this place with a couple friends that live in the area to have some drinks and play pool. It's got an area to sit down and have food, a back area with good pool tables to hang around and chill. The crowd was definitely older but that wasn't all that big a deal. The live band playing was entertaining, the drinks were good, and a good atmosphere.
This is a better place to bring a date if anything. There weren't too many single groups of people there so most people came together.
If you are a salsa dancer you will not have a good time. We got there at about 11pm we realized quickly this was not a salsa place. It was packed the dance floor is very small, people where spilling drinks on the almost non existing dance floor and the music; well given that the people were not dancers, a lot of bachata and merengue (I'll dance to merengue - bachata is freaking boring- to me... but hen again I'm a salsa dancer). We are from the LA area so we stayed purposely in the concord area to try this place out. Wasted over $100 in hotel, another $17 in drinks at the place that we had just gotten and taken away immidiately (not taking into account the water we purchased, they had water there free, but it was mostly ice). THe security guard said they take any unattended drinks "for our safety". I told him that we didn't know that was their practice and we would have down them if we knew that or asked for shots. We generally don't drink but we realized quickly this was not a dancing crowd and thought we should get drinks since it was too crowded with non dancers, no space, drinks spilled all over the dance floor and people standing around the dance floor not dancing.
Don't buy any drinks unless you are going do down them. If you are regulars, Lord bless you!
Hope you have some kind of fun if you go as a dancer and as for us it was an extremely expensive mistake!
Omg. If you want a divvy fun place to go to. If you want interesting levels of good live music. If you want darts. If you want billiards. If you want to watch a lot of tattoos, bikers, drunks, cougars, young people, long hair, crowded, smelly, friendly, unfriendly, beautiful, ugly, dancing, yelling crazy people. This is for you! Lots of great booze, people watching is way above par, and always some music and entertainment. It is definitely a "Cheers" kind of crowd - the regulars know immediately when you aren't one of them, but are friendly enough. A must go!
Review Source:I love this place!!
Since moving to the East Bay from San Francisco, I never found a place to satisfy my need for Latin music. Well, Vinnie's helped fill that void. Every Thursday is Latin night, but be prepared. This place gets PACKED, and they don't have air conditioning other than a ceiling fan.
It is a great place to just dance the night away, and the cost of drinks are definitely reasonable. I recommend this place!!
Everyone is welcome at good ol' Vinnies! Yep.... I've been here more than a few times.
It's got everything you could ask for in a bar. Here's the run down:
~Quirky, unpretentious clientele who straddle that fine line between friendly & smarmy.
~ Usually no cover, decent prices on drinks and food
~ Occasional charity events, jam nights,  & BBQ"s  on random Sundays
~Efficient bartenders.  They remember your name if  you've run a bar tab from time to time....yet they are not overly familiar.
~Unobtrusive security. They get the job done and make you feel like nothing too serious will ever go down here. (Look for the bright orange shirts!)
~ Surprisingly good chicken tenders for when you need to soak up the alcohol.
~ Easy parking...I usually score a Rock Star spot right out front.
~ Plenty of restaurants within walking distance around Todos Santos Plaza.
~ Always some kind of interesting drunken conversion in the ladies room.
~ Lighting that makes everyone look  younger than their years.
~ Free earplugs for the asking because some bands do not get that louder does not make up for the lack of originality.
Often my first choice, but if I don't know the band ...a good default venue.
If you like live rock music, cheap drinks, friendly staff and welcoming customers this is your place. If like over priced drinks & everyone to be pretty, 20 something, and cooler than you ....go to Walnut Creek.
I was hosting a bunch of out of town friends that wanted to go dancing. A co-worker recommended this place and I am so glad she did! Everyone was a bit hungry, so I ordered up some mozzarella sticks, chicken tenders & a pizza. Â Everything was really good. Way above bar food standards. Â The mozzarella sticks were fresh and fried perfectly. Â The pizza had a thick crust and the toppings were well balanced. Â You can tell that the owner takes pride in everything that is served.
I stuck to Widmere Hef most of the night. My only complaint was that it took quite awhile to get a bartender's attention. I ended up ordering two, so I wouldn't have to fight my way through the crowded bar again.
There is a jukebox, so we were able to put a quarter in and practice the horseshoe. When 9 o'clock rolled around the salsa crowd came out. I had no idea what I was doing but a regular did his best to try and help me. I kept turning the wrong way and he was a good sport about it.
Definitely planning to swing by on Tuesday/Country night!
Great place to go if you don't want to get dressed up but want a decent meal at a reasonable price. Â The bartender is great. Â They pride themselves on their "home made" potato chips, but I didn't care for them...they were unevenly cooked and pretty greasy. Â The fish and chips are good, as long as you order the fries instead of the "chips"
Review Source:I have been showing up at this place at my friend Geoff's urging. Â He loves the Projam on Sunday nights and I have been to a few now. Â Great blues. Nice place. Delicious menu for food. Plenty of parking in the area. Staff are friendly and the bartenders are great! Â My only issue is that sometimes it is packed and I can't get a seat but I guess that means I need to dance more!
Review Source:The bartenders are great here. Â Very nice, and quite skilled.
The draft selection is meh, but there's still something for everyone.
The crowd is a little different every time I'm in here, save a few noticeable regulars. Â
They have a good-sized stage that unfortunately hosts jackasses playing Sublime a bit too often. Â While it's impossible to enjoy that unless you're a stoned suburban whiteboy, others have taken the stage to impress from time to time.
The place smells like shit 100% of the time. Â I can't figure this out for the life of me. Â Right when you walk in it smells like shit, even though the bathrooms are pretty far away from the front door. Â The smell usually dissipates by the time you reach the bar, but not always.
Food is served all-day and is decent pub food at reasonable prices. Â Breakfast is served all-day as well, which is a big bonus. Â Chicken Fried Steak, Eggs and Hashbrowns for $6.37?
So for a place that smells like shit and often has the worst kind of live music, I like this place.
A dive bar for Concord locals filled with cougars and cubs and older married couples on a night on the town.
A good venue to see live bands, grab a beer, shoot some pool, or play darts.
If you're a guy, make sure to wear your biker jacket and bandana, or plaid hoodie, and style your hair a la Richie Sambora.
If you're a lady, don't forget your ripped up concert t-shirt or tank top, stretchy bedazzled jeans with strategically placed tears and thigh-high boots.
This place sucks only because there's never anyone under the age of 45. If you want to find a desperate cougar on a binge, this is the place for you!!
The bartenders are actually pretty speedy, but the beer selection leaves much to be desired. Anytime we come here to play some pool we have to deal with drunk a-holes who don't understand bar rules (no, you don't get to stay on the table when you lose, dumbass). The food is great when you've been drinking for a while.
Ah... where to start on Vinnie's?.... One word: COUGARS!!!! Men, beware! Haha... nah, the cougars are alright. They're pretty fun actually, always up for dancing. On most nights it has more of an "older" crowd (hence the cougars...) but no matter, because the drinks are great. The bartenders are cute, friendly, polite, funny. There are pool tables and darts to play with and the game section of the bar is always crowded. Food is ok. Oh- order the deep fried pickles. It's not on the menu but if you order it, they'll serve it. DELICIOUS! The music is always great, even when the band is not as great. It's not so much the music quality that gets you going (though really good bands play here...) but the atmosphere. There are always people up for some dancing and mix that up with drinks- well, you can't go wrong at Vinnie's!
Review Source:I have only been here twice- Â but the live music killed me
I love live music, but - when you are the furthest seat away from the band, you should be able to hear the conversation of your table-mates
The food seems OK, and the drinks priced out right, but the loud music killed it for me and made me want to leave immediately. My opinion might change on a night without a band...
We tried.... literally... to get a drink here but the two bartenders completely ignored us. We wanted to watch the game and eat dinner. We sat there, drinkless, for an entire quarter, and no one waited on us. No one said anything. The place clearly caters to locals and does not make out of towners feel welcome. We ended up eating at a pub down the street. Booooooooo.......
Review Source:I came to Vinny's with a friend for a show another friend was in. The band was decent.
There wasn't a server and ended up getting my own drinks. Â I was hungry but without any servers, I wasn't about to leave my friend to wait for who knows how long for food.
I didn't see or experience the trouble indicated by the other Yelpers but they had a Security guy out in front. If you like to watch goofy drunks, this place is for you.
The Bartenders were quick and very pleasant. The three stars are mostly due to them. The drinks were very reasonably priced. Maybe that's why there so many drunks.
I may not be back but I'm probably a bit more generous due to a good time with my friend.
I went here with a friend on Halloween night last year. We were completely decked out as zombies (peeling faces, bloody wounds and rulers sticking out through our destroyed clothes) and wanted to find a cool place where our hard work would be appreciated.
We checked out a couple of bars in the area where we thought it might be kinda happening, and each place we went seemed to be as dead as we appeared. We even stopped by Farringtons, where we could tell people were essentially waiting around until they found someone to hook up with (this determined by the bored looking guys and the girls with costumes skimpier than some lingerie I've seen.) Some guy even told us we should leave because we "didn't belong" there. WTF? Anyway, we were getting pretty annoyed, so we headed towards EJ Phair.
That's when we saw that Vinnies of all places, appeared from the outside to be poppin'.
We went in, and knew we'd found our place. Sure, the crowd was much older than she and I (some people probably even older than our ages combined), but most people were dressed up in cool and creative costumes, everyone was chill, and the dance floor was packed with people having a great time. The 80's style cover band was excellent and the drinks were right on. Everyone got along really well it seemed, and no one minded sharing their tables with a couple of zombie chicks, let alone their bar.
We both had the time of our (after)lives, whether it was dancing with the guy dressed like Jesus or talking to a woman in her 50s who wanted us to know that she wished her sons would date women like us. We agreed that night that if we decided to hit up a bar again for any reason, that we'd certainly go to Vinnie's where we could be ourselves and feel comfortable while having a couple of drinks. Isn't that what a bar is for anyway?
I've been to this dive bar a couple of times. It kinda of smells like bathroom throw up in there. They have Jager on tap, and apparently lots of salsa, line dancing during the week. No offense, this is a last resort type of bar -- decent prices, like 3 tv's, darts & pool tables. That's Vinnie's.
Review Source:I have gone to Vinnie's a few times here and there. It is a blast just sitting back drinking a brew and laughing at other patrons there. The booth I like to sit in had a bullet go through it( luckily not when I was there). Its kinda like "Deliverance" meets "American Me". White trash,cholos,bikers,meth heads are just part of beautiful mosaic named Vinnie's. I got way to many stories to tell. Case and point,if you think you're life sucks at least you ain't a Vinnie's folk. PROST
Review Source:LINE DANCING! What?
I just went here to get a drink since I just came from a nearby restaurant called EJ Phair. My friends and I were like, "yeah, let's just go to Vinnie's" since we didn't have anything else to really do.
It seems like a typical bar where people in their 40's go. However, it was  cool atmosphere. After getting a round of beers and sitting at a table, a guy started to play some country music and people started to line dance! What! It looked fun but I didn't join in.
I hear on Thursdays that they have a Salsa night.
I'd come here again for a drink.
I'm reviewing this place as a lunch time restaurant and not for it being a bar. Â Although I'm surprised to see what people out here (California) consider to be a dive bar. Â This place is swanky compared to East Coast dive bars as far as I'm concerned.
The food here is pretty much what you would expect. Â Service is what you'd expect. Â Decor is pretty much what you would expect. Â We usually order the fish and chips which are pretty good. Â Fish is crispy and not fishy tasting.
It's just another average kind of place.
I really like this place. Â But let me just say if you're looking for a girls night out to get all dressed up-go to WC, not here. Â
This place is not a posh bar.. its just a bar. Â Great prices, never have a problem getting darts or playing pool. Â I've always enjoyed the live bands.
Additionally, people watching here is awesome.
This place has a cool vibe! Â Me and some buds stumbled upon Vinnie's after the Judas Priest concert at the Concord Pavilion and we weren't disappointed. Â They have my two favorite beers on tap: Guinness and PBR! Â What's not to love??? Â They also had a great live band playing: The Synthetics. Â They did a great job playing some hits from the 80's and 90's. Â Next time I'm in the area, I'll definitely hit this place again!
Review Source:Fun bar, always something going on during the week. Great bartenders, stiff drinks. Typcially OK bands, nothing to write home about, but always entertaining. Crowded on the weekends, but for the most part friendly patrons.
They do have an issue with some strange odor every once in a while, probably something to do with the grease traps.
They serve food and it's not too bad.
Good people here !
I love this crappy dive bar for a couple of reasons. My friend and I try to go to Vinnie's at least once every two weeks.
The bands that play, for the most part, are good enough to dance to. And by dance I mean jump around like a fool (It's a pretty good exercise routine). We are in our 20s and pretty much don't care that most of the other people dancing are double our age.
I have never had an issue with any of the bartenders. They make solid drinks and they are always fun to joke with.
A big reason I like this bar so much is because even though it's a dive bar it's pretty clean. The bathrooms are never trashed, the tables get cleaned off and the dance floor is never sticky.
Yes, the people who go to Vinnie's are older and a little broken down but it's got a fun vibe. The only time there has been a problem when some overflow from Time Out showed up. They all seemed to want to fight eachother.
This place is very predictable, it has it's own bar flies and groupies and you know what? That's OK! Â I love playing here; Â I play, they feed me, they give me drinks, they pay me, everyone has fun!! Â What else can you ask for?
Yes, there are bikers, drunks, druggies, mexican's looking for dancing partners, just like any other BAR that serves alcohol! Â But Vinnie's has it's own nice group of people that come here every weekend that are cool and friendly and will stick up for you if you're run into trouble. The owner is very cool and is a straight shooter. Â ----not a crank whore
Oh my Lord! Drunken Grannies in denim mini skirts with rhinestones on the butt dirty dancing and rubbing up against grandpas with phil spector hair and billy idol outfits. Much geriatric debauchery! Much wrinkly decolletage on display! Much 70s-80s metal! Bartenders were nice and speedy.
Patrons are touchy-feely and wierd as hell. Great place to go feel like you're in a time warp or an alternate reality!!
How could you not fall in love with this place? Â The bands take me back to the years I was too young to remember and the staff is very chill. Â Drinks are priced nicely and I've heard the food isn't too bad either. Â Some people my age don't get this place, but that's fine with me...go to Crogan's. Â Get there before 9 to get a good seat...unless dancing to the 70's top 10 is your thing.
Review Source:My Vinnie's experiences...
1.) Lamenting over failed relationships with an extremely inebriated old timer who just got kicked out of his house. He had the bartender call him a cab 4 times during the course of talking to me, but never actually left. He kept buying me shots of Hennesey  and telling me how much he liked me. I went to the bathroom and he was gone. Couldn't have worked out better.
2.) As an AC/DC cover band warmed up....a heavily tattooed man in a tank top and a half a mouthful of teeth grabbed the microphone and proceeded to propose to his girlfriend as he fought back tears. She said yes and they embraced....and he bought their entire group single red roses from the mexican flower lady roaming through the bar. Very touching.
3.) After a full sunday of drinking and watching football with a very hot waitress serving me...I followed the lead of an old guy who was clearly a regular and called the waitress a bitch in a joking manner. She took offense and commented I was clearly too drunk. I pointed out that the other guy had been doing so the whole day. She responded that it was her dad. So that was OK.
The place serves great French Dips, the bartenders are awesome, and its big and spacious. Weekend nights get crowded with the type of crowd that has given Concord it's less than sophisticated reputation.
But hey...its a good time nonetheless.
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