Vinted Wine Bar & Kitchen

Tapas style restaurants should be fun and multi-experiential and Tapas Wine Bar is every bit of that and more. From Veal cheeks, to Pork Belly Tacos, to Braised Short Ribs, Risotto Balls, Charcutrie Plate, Foie Gras a la Maison, etc. Wine selection is enormous with no clunkers. They even offer half price bottles of wine certain nights which was delightful. How about a 16 oz. can of PBR served in a mason jar, that's how comfortable this place is! Don't get nervous beer geeks there is much more to their beer list than PBR's. Lotsa very good solid micro brews. We were a party of seven and probably ordered 12 or so Tapas plates, beer, wine, drinks, Cognac, desserts...the full monty for $375...that my friends is a real value. Ok you ask, why only four stars. Well it was a 4.5 star experience which you can't show on Yelp and there were a couple of Tapas items that missed our launch. For example the wonderfully seared and,I assume, dry harvested scallops on a bed of pulled pork. Both items would, could and should stand alone but together...well for us it just didn't work. All were flavorful and good in there own right just not together. The Cuban sandwich was another disappointment. Any one who has been to Florida to any of the Cuban enclaves knows what a Cuban sandwich is or roughly the starting point for that type of item. Again while not bad it just missed the mark more than a little.
 Over all our experience was extremely positive and Vinted is a very refreshing alternative dining experience in the other wise cookie cutter humdrum West Hartford area restaurant scene. Bon Appetit fellow foodies Vinted Wine Bar & Kitchen is the real deal!!!

It it possible to have a crush on a restaurant? Because we totally fell in love with Vinted.

Came here on a recent visit for a birthday with a large group.  Which turns out to be the perfect way to sample this. Our waitress was well suited for the task. She helped plan out how many dishes we needed and spaced them out to keep the food coming (but not too fast).

As a result, though, we tried at least half of the menu. Not a clunker among them. But the standouts were the risotto balls, the brussel sprouts, the chicken wings, and the mussels.  Really, though, you can't go wrong. Some are better for sharing than others (the foie gras "hot dog" was a little messy) but it still is the perfect place to come with a big group.  

The wine is also a star here (naturally) with a good variety of different priced wine in various portions for everyone.  Its almost a little overwhelming but again the waitress helped highlight some wines to taste that matched up with the meal.  

And don't pass on the cheese/meats OR the dessert. Can you say macaroons? Yum.  

Overall, our guests loved this place and so did we.  We even saw our friends also celebrating a birthday. A true winner.

While the cocktail, wine and beers were excellent, the food was just OK. The descriptions were enticing so we ordered a bunch of different things. We felt a lot of the items were bland and didn't taste as good as they sounded... especially disappointing because the majority of ingredients are high fat so you if you are going to eat that well it better taste great. May be back for drinks but the food was not a reason to return.