Vinotopia

Was very surprised by the quality wine selection. The food offerings paired exceptionally well with the vino list. We had great service. Look forward to trying other items on the menu.

Great spot to taste excellent wines. Eat a wonderful meal and then go see a movie on big screen either top tier digital picture and sound. It’s an evening of great entertainment in one location. Will definitely go back again and again.

This place has too many managers. You can tell by the lack of customer service. Drinks are super overpriced and never strong. This place will do in a pinch only!

As with the other reviewers, the food was mediocre and the service was bad. We had reservations and they placed us in view of the fire but also close to the door, which was open and a cold wind blew in consistently through the meal. How romantic. The wine was very good but overpriced. And as we shivered and waited (and waited) for our food, it became clear that this restaurant was not worth the cost or hype.

This restaurant consistently has a fantastic menu and delivers beautifully presented food. The atmosphere of the fireplace and romantic lighting is nice. The lights down below are just stunning. The fish and chips are highly recommended. And the hazelnut crusted chicken really good too.

Vinotopia works in a pinch when you want something before a movie. The bartenders are nice enough, although everything is carefully measured, and they don’t go out of their way to give you a smile.
The kitchen can be very slow. Thankfully they’ve recently changed their policy to where you can take your food and beverages into all the theaters, including General Admission.
The food is mediocre at best. I was a big fan of the nachos, however they are no longer on the menu. I have yet to find anything else that is better than a C+ on the food menu.
Please bring back the Nachos!!!

For a wine bar in a movie theatre this is really quite good. Not as much as a buzz as Sundance in SF, but a really nice btg wine list, served by a pleasant bartender Kris. Thanks for the great service.

The views and décor are amazing. The place looks amazing and is great to just sit and relax with that said the food and service are horrible. The food isn’t even that great. You can get better elsewhere and I would go anywhere else around here to eat. The food isn’t worth it and the staff are very very slow.

Service is frantic and inconsistent. They get terribly confused if you order food for a movie. Last time I was there they oked me to sit outside and then no one helped me-​or gave me a menu. I left after about 20 minutes. An overpriced joke. Go somewhere else as there are several good options right there.

Where do I start? Happy hour was not as advertised on website and they refused to honor it stating that the website was old. Beer was warm and they said they had problems with it lately. Server didn’t listen at all and messed up the meal. All in all would not go again. Spend the evening in one of the better restaurants near here.

I like this place but they took out my beer a couple years ago and they haven’t brought it back. I just figure if I’m gonna spend what they charge for beer, I want it to be my fav !

Friendly staff, decent food. If you have some time to wait awhile you will enjoy the outdoor seating and the great atmosphere. If not, then go elsewhere because that bar serves all of the drinks to the theatres and you will be last in line so it may take awhile. Good food though and nice staff.

We ended up coming here for Valentine’s Day last minute as we failed to make reservations a head of time. Well actually we did the day of, via OpenTable, but the hostess said they weren’t accepting any additional reservations for the day although we were sent a confirmation …
Anyways, we found a spot in the bar. I ordered a cesar salad and I ate about 3 – 4 bites. It tasted stale, the lettuce was pretty brown, and their sauce tasted too fishy and was too yellow for my liking. My boyfriend had a burger which was well done although he ordered it medium rare. Go figure.
We have been here before just for drinks and those did not disappoint. I would only recommend this place for drinks, they have so many wines to choose from if you are a wino.

Service is amazing and so is the atmosphere but the $ 34 Thanksgiving dinner was awful. Ok so the turkey was salty old pressed breast meat, stuffing was hard as croutons, gravy was thin and obviously packaged, veggies were old and wilted to nothingness, sweet potato mash was good though! But the fresh made cranberry sauce had zero sweetness added, big big no no. Thank goodness for the great service and awesome tunes playing and my very hott hubby to look at.

3 strikes your out! Consistently the slowest service ever. Each time I have entered there is nobody to greet you and the bartenders pretend they can’t see you standing there. Both times I had to walk up to the bar, where I was ignored for the second time. It’s not until your annoyed and waving your hands that anyone will hep you. Then you are pointed to a table –not escorted there and then you will wait again. Especially because they are visible annoyed at being asked for their attention.
I went again this afternoon and was late to my movie due to slow service. In a shorter amount of time, my friends went to BJ willy’s downstairs and had appetizers and drinks, walked upstairs and got seats before my family was delivered any food. The bartender knew we were rushing to a movie, but took all the walk in take out orders before even bringing us water. She then told me that I was wrong about my movie time (I wasn’t). We ordered 2 burgers and 2 kids meals (easy right?). After 35 minutes and our movie starting in 5 minutes I went up to the bar to check on our order and to prepay to hurry our process. After complaining about the delay I was met with an eye roll and that they had new staff.
They did bring my food and the theater trays so I could take everything into the movie. This was a good solution but quite messy with a 2 ½ year old eating in a dark theater.
I hope Vinetopia gets better. Love the wine list and booth seating. It’s just not worth the anxiety that comes from trying to actually get seated, place an order and then get your food.

Ordered a beer and a wine to take into a movie — forced to wait in a weird «side line» to get to the bar — felt like I was not worthy of real service. Then I could not take two drinks, even though one was for my wife. I had to go to the movie line and send my wife back for her drink. (We are both in our 50’s, so not like we are sneaking booze!) When she returned with her $ 12 glass of Cabernet we both had an OMG moment — We paid $ 12 for one ounce of wine!!!
Come on — if the movie and restaurant business is that bad, find another profession.

Why do I always feel rushed at this place? Bartender and waitstaff always start off with «what time does your movie start?» Followed by a lecture about the theatre doors opening 45 minutes early and only having 34 seats in it. Hey, I’m a grown @$$ man; I don’t need help with timeliness.
Bartender last night (June 1) was rude with young looking patrons; demanding in request for ID and talking over them. Very curt.
Five (5) TVs at bar were on the same channel featuring baseball. How about a little variety? (Other sports, news, etc.).
The food and drinks are decent but overpriced. I’d rather go to a normal theatre and have dinner and drinks at a nearby restaurant.

I was gracious enough to give this place 1 star because the service was good.
We spent $ 165 for 2 people for the worst meal I have had in a LONG time (That included drinks)
Don’t order the salmon –The unknown salad on top was nasty. And the medallions… actually, the medallions were pretty good but the rest of the plate wasn’t worth it.
The salads were gross too, ask for no croutons, and specify your dressing or you won’t get any.
Also, the 2 tablespoons of Merlot in my glass wasn’t really worth the $ 8.00 or whatever I got charged.
We probably wont be eating here again.

Vinotopia was offering a Groupon for half-​off of four-​course dinner for two, so Wife N and I decided it was time to head out on a Vino/​Cine date to dinner and a movie (which we’d also acquired a Groupon for).
Dinner, Thursday evening 5:30pm. We sat down and… wait. no menu? It’s an iPad. So, not being a heavy tablet user I had to figure out how to use their menu. It wasn’t hard, but at the same time, there’s just something to be said for sticking to a paper menu versus going overboard on the technology to the point where I found myself wondering how to find the appetizers. This may be impressive and cool for the Gen-​Zero iCrowd, but it was overboard for this diner.
Once we figured out how to find and use the «back» button on the menu, which improved the «menu surfing» experience tremendously, we were ready to order. Our first course consisted of the bacon-​wrapped peppers, followed by a salad for each of us. Wife N had their Caesar, while I had the Endive Salad.
The peppers, normally about $ 9, tasted great with the home-​made blood-​orange sauce, but we felt the pineapple aioli on the side wasn’t a good pairing. Basically, they were 4 bacon-​wrapped poppers. For the normal price, I would have expected more.
We went on to order our salads and main courses. I looked at this lovely Salmon Du Jour (resting on a sumptuous bed of forbidden rice) in all its beautiful iGlory, but sadly, they were «all out of the Du Jour» this evening, so I would have to stick with mashed potatoes or veggies. Meh. I ordered the Trout. Wife N ordered the Bacon-​wrapped Beef Medallions, «rare», with rice and fried cauliflower.
[Sidebar Your Honor… Okay, your technologically-​overboard iMenus had «we’re out tonight» menu items on them? I would have thought you’d keep them up to date — isn’t that the purpose of «live menus» anyway? If you’re out of the salmon, it shouldn’t appear on the snazzy iMenu!]
The Caesar salad was all hearts of romaine. But no leaves. Just a whole bowl of yellow/​white hearts. The dressing was about average. The croutons were wonderful, homemade, flavorful. My Endive salad was good, but suffered from too little of their lovely dressing, and was basically dry.
On to the main course. The trout was decent, nothing to rave about. It was on a bed of green beans, just as shown in the menu, but I found myself still hungry after finishing it.
Wife N’s Beef came out «medium-​rare», which is pretty typical when you order something «rare», so (given medium rare was her desired outcome anyway) she got what she wanted, not what she ordered. (Sadly) It worked out according to plan. The meat was tasty, very nicely done, and definitely not your Costco-​pre-​pack bacon fillets. The rice was excellent. Oddly, we thought the TOTAL STAR of the plate was the deep-​fried Cauliflower. It was really excellent. Crispy, flavorful — completely took us by surprise and left us wanting more.
Topped it off with a slice of Mud Pie for dessert which was reasonably good, about average. The dark cookie crust was excellent, and the sauces were nice.
Service was excellent, though admittedly Thursdays at 6pm aren’t really a busy time for them and the place was mostly empty.
The bill came to $ 81, but we got it for the Groupon price of $ 38. Now, that said: we were a bit disappointed in the quantity of the food. The listed price on my Trout was around $ 17. This for a thin 4-​oz filet on a bed of green beans, no starch. I took it for a $ 11 plate – it was almost the size of what I’d expect would be an appetizer for 2. Wife’s plate was an «okay» value for $ 18. We both were «satisfied» having paid $ 38 for the meal (before tip) but agreed wholeheartedly that we would have been really disappointed in the dinner had we paid the normal $ 81 price. Unfortunately, we both walked away still a bit hungry.
In all, if you’re looking for dinner and a movie it’s an okay value if you’re on a Groupon or other substantial discount. If you don’t have any discounts, this place is far too expensive for the level of food, and I would suggest eating somewhere else. No half stars on Unilocal,but we’d call it 3* on a Groupon, 2* at the full price. Might come back for dinner on another Groupon, but definitely would not eat here at their listed prices.

**HH review only** $ 3.99 & $ 4.99 food items. $ 1 off pints & $ 5 selected wines. HH hours are 3−6pm & 8pm-​close.
Fish tacos, FTW! For five buck-​a-​roos you can enjoy finely battered fillets tucked in double layer corn tortillas with pico de gallo, cilantro coleslaw & chipotle aioli drizzled over. Don’t share this item because one isn’t enough to keep you satisfied. The fillets tasted great, the slaw & pico de gallo were overloaded (not complaining) & the aioli was a perfect blend to top everything off.
The hummus plate, also $ 4.99, isn’t bad but it could tolerate a little something extra to give the hummus more than just the garbanzo bean taste. There was a good amount of traditional items to dress the pita but my only request to Vinotopia is add a few more pita triangles; four isn’t enough. (FYI, the best happy hour hummus plate I’ve encountered thus far was at Hopworks Urban Brewery.)
If you have a drink voucher I suggest using it at Vinotopia instead of the concession stand. The cocktails are pricey & that’s where the voucher comes in; $ 8 for vodka-​cran. Whaaa! You can take alcohol, purchased from Vinotopia only, into a few theater rooms where minors aren’t allowed.
There is outdoor seating overlooking some of Progress Ridge TownSquare but in order to order from their happy hour menu it’s bar seating only. There isn’t a ton of seating but each time we’ve visited a table was available.
So long story short. Vinotopia is A-​OK.