Vin Sur Vingt Wine Bar - Upper West Side — Restaurant in New York

I was fairly disappointed, sadly.

The menu had a lot of choices but they didn’t actually have a fair number of them — making it a guessing game where you’d ask for something on the menu and they wouldn’t have it, so you’d ask for something else and they wouldn’t have it, and so you’d try one more time and… yep, wouldn’t have it. Finally we asked them to tell us what they did have and he came back with a more expensive bottle for which he wasn’t quite sure the price. Frustrating way to order.

So in frustration I just almost-randomly ordered a $15 glass — which was on the cheaper side but still a fair amount of money. It was awful. I literally had a tastier glass of wine in a plastic cup at my kid’s preschool art show an hour later. This wine was so thin, so flavorless, and had so much of a benzene flavor (for lack of a better word) that I almost asked if they’d let it sit out overnight.

People rave about this place, and I hope this was just an aberration — but, wow, was I disappointed. I had one glass and called it a night, because it just wasn’t worth having a second. Really unfortunate, because it seems like it should be an awesome place.

In response to the reply… To the extent that they’re implying that wine should taste like it was left out overnight because it’s organic, I’ve had plenty of organic wines and they are not supposed to taste like that. It was bad. Nor was it that the wine lacked sugar — which is an odd sort of thing to say, to be frank. It was that the wine tasted stale and “hot” like benzene. My wife — a professional chef who’s cooked in some of the best kitchens in the world and knows wine very well — likewise thought it was undrinkable. This wasn’t an “I didn’t like it” situation. They either screwed something up (storage, etc.) or just served a really terrible wine. It was objectively bad.

The reply frankly makes me think less of this place — because serving a bad glass of wine from time to time happens, but if your response is to basically claim that it wasn’t bad it was just “organic…” well, that tells me they’ll serve more bad glasses, and won’t ever fix...

UPDATE (in response to the owner): We gave you the benefit of the doubt and went this past Saturday. NONE of the items you mentioned were on the menu. Please advise. Thank you. We've been living on Riverside Blvd for almost 5 years and Vin Sur Vingt has always been our go to. We LOVE it! Tonight we found out that the menu has been changed: all the vegetarian/easy to make vegan options have been removed. No more tartine with avocado or the tartine with tomatoes. Not even a salad! The salad was to die for! The 4 of us had to go to Cipriani. We are seriously hoping and pleading that whomever manages Vin Sur Vingt on Riverside Blvd comes to their senses and goes back to the original menu, which was perfect for every type of diet and palate. Please and...

I enjoyed this place, I went extremely late around 10:47pm. The kitchen was closing so ordering food had to be done immediately.

I ordered the SOUPEÀ L'OIGNON (I’ve never had French onion soup before and ALWAYS have wanted to try it) it was ABSOLUTELY amazing! In addition, I also tried Tarte Flambee De Potrion, it was tasty but wasn’t what I expected at all. I wouldn’t order it again. My friend ordered the Escargot, I wouldn’t have a clue if those were delicious or not. Not really into eating snails BUT to each his own. Lol

The glass of wine I decided on was the Alsace Kuentz-Bas Riesling Cuvee Tradition. I’m a Riesling type of girl, I’ve also noticed these days that finding Riesling is a rarity but maybe not at a wine bar so that brought me joy.

I would definitely return mostly because of the classy atmosphere it was really...