W Wineoteca

Came here for dinner on a saturday night with three of my friends. The food was excellent, the service was good, and there was no loud music like the last time… Wait… Yes, there was! We wolfed down the delicious appetizers and started on our entrees — my friends got steaks, and I got the short ribs — everything was great! All of a sudden a guy with a professional video camera walks in from the next room shining a very, very bright light (attached to the camera) in everyone’s faces and out of nowhere a bunch of teens and their parents (apparently there was a birthday party in the next room) pile in. The singers come on and everybody starts dancing! So now we got music that’s way too loud for that small space, people dancing in front of the stage (there’s no dance floor), and a bright light shone by the cameraman in our faces.
There were two middle aged couples, at separate tables, who were enjoying their dinner right up to the invasion and they were in shock. They promplty asked for the bill, paid, and got up and left — leaving food and full glasses of wine. We munched on our food for another 10 minutes and left as well. This is just unacceptable. This place is by no means cheap and for the money I am paying I don’t expect my comfort to be diminished for the sake of others. We should either have been warned about the situation in advance or been seated in the space on the other side of the stage — overlooking the street.
The manager needs to learn some basic business concepts. 80% of business should be coming from 20% of your clients. You should be catering to couples and small groups who will just randomly drop in for a dinner — not to groups who will celebrate an annual event and bring their own liquor.
There are a ton of places that will treat you like king for less than these guys charge and I will take good food with great atmosphere over great food with a bad atmosphere any day.
If I ever come back it will be either on a weeknight or for lunch on a weekend, but I don’t see that happening for a while.