Viento — Restaurant in Osaka

Food: 3/5 Average at best if you like free spirited/non cohesive flavors Service: 4/5 Service was good Value: 3/5 Not a good value in my book (didn't go there for drinks) Ambiance: 4/5 Bar and table seating

Dropped by Viento several years back, had some high expectation based on some of the reviews that I had read online.

Ended up ordering a red sangria, olives, a house pizza and a beef roast.

The service dish turned out to be some pickled vegetables.

The red sangria wasn't what I would expect from a traditional sangria.

There is no prep work for olives so not much to say about the olives..

The pizza had a house made crust and actual cheese so that was a plus, but sadly it had what looked and tasted like low quality sausages. Given that the restaurant is named Viento, I expected some Chorizo or even a proper Spanish Salchicha as the topping for the pizza, I was certainly mistaken.

Next came the beef roast skewer, it took a while to get cooked given the size of the cubes of meat. The portion was large, and it was served with some greens, potato salad on a bed of french fries and a side of ketchup. That had me going like hmm...

The beef cubes didn't have any noticeable flavor that I could associate with any of the latin american/caribbean or Spanish cuisine that I am familiar with. The seasoning of the meat certainly left me perplexed because it wasn't appetizing and didn't enhance the flavor of the beef.

It was not a Brazillian/Agentinian Churrasco based sauce, nor was it a Middle Eastern Kebab flavoring with herbs and spices, nor an American Shish Kebab with BBQ sauce, nor a Japanese Kushiyaki, nor was it a wine reduction sauce of any kind that I could imagine.

Perhaps the concept of the restaurant is to be free like the "Wind" (Viento means wind in Spanish) and not have any particular attachment to any regional cuisines or food standards.

What I can say is that the flavors for the various dishes were very eclectic and non coherent, without any synergy, there was no rhyme nor reason for how the dishes were composed and seasoned. Pretty much felt like someone decided to get some ingredients together and cook them and call it a dish.

Perhaps it is a restaurant where people go for drinks and socialize, certainly it can't be...

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