{"id":2376,"date":"2009-01-22T20:19:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T19:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2021-10-31T19:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T19:45:38","slug":"vinopolis-nothing-to-wine-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=2376","title":{"rendered":"Vinopolis &#8211; nothing to wine about!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are several restaurants\u00a0and bars in the <a title=\"Vinopolis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vinopolis.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vinopolis<\/a> complex. I have been to most of them, on more than one occasion. The <a title=\"Cantina Vinopolis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cantinavinopolis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cantina Vinopolis<\/a> in particular delivered much better food than I was expecting, and off course being where it is, it&#8217;s hard to beat the wine list. If you do the wine tour first you can normally find some of the wines from that on the wine list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s a large room, so works well for groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Blue Bar, situated next to Vinopolis is a relaxing venue. It has a good cocktail list and does a mean white wine Kir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP2291.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2380\" title=\"IMGP2291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP2291-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP2291\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP2292.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2381\" title=\"IMGP2292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP2292-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP2292\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a title=\"Wine Wharf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winewharf.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wine Wharf<\/a> is a fairly conventional wine bar with an excellent wine list and good bar service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a title=\"The Brew Wharf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brewwharf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brew Wharf<\/a> is a livelier venue that is good for groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The complex also has the only <a title=\"Majestic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.majestic.co.uk\/About\/Stores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Majestic Wine Shop<\/a> I am aware off in London that lets you buy individual bottles rather than cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">UPDATE : March 2010 &#8211; Vinopolis is not such a serious wine venue these days, seems to\u00a0attract a lot\u00a0of hen and stag parties. Majestic has also been replaced by <a title=\"Laithwaites\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laithwaites.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laithwaites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Food 5.7<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Service 5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ambience 4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several restaurants\u00a0and bars in the Vinopolis complex. I have been to most of them, on more than one occasion. The Cantina Vinopolis in particular delivered much better food than I was expecting, and off course being where it is, it&#8217;s hard to beat the wine list. If you do the wine tour first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=2376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vinopolis &#8211; nothing to wine about!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,7,8],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-bookings","category-london","category-uk","tag-vinopolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29744,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/29744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}