{"id":1395,"date":"2015-08-09T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T18:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2016-11-23T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T19:52:44","slug":"vindinista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/vindinista\/","title":{"rendered":"Vindinista Wine Bar, Acton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes a business opens that makes me feel as if I actually don’t live that<\/i> far off the beaten track. Like all hidden gems it’s a slight effort to get there, being a 20 minute walk up from Acton Green, but we don’t have a wine bar this side of the W4 border that compares to Vindinista, even if you take into account Chiswick’s latest and greatest wine bar additions. So it’s well worth it!<\/p>\n

For here is the antithesis of any chain wine bar – even the good ones; an intimate space, a warm reception, a discerning crowd, genuinely knowledgeable bar staff, and a menu of unusual and exciting wines from small producers that can be drunk by the glass, carafe, or bottle.<\/p>\n

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Vindinista (pronounced “van-din-eest-er”) is the creation of Paola Tich, owner of Park and Bridge<\/i>, a charming independent wine shop a few doors down. When you enter this postage-stamp-sized delight, it’s clear that the space has been created with a great deal of loving care and attention.<\/p>\n

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It’s worth sitting by the bar to glean suggestions and tasting notes from friendly staff and to chat about lesser-known wines. Even the non-wine-geek will enjoy the back-story to some of those wines.<\/p>\n

The bar snacks are tasty treats; organic meat platters, truffle cheese on sourdough toast, potted shrimps from Upton Smokery to mention a few. The duck charcuterie was memorable and I was absolutely bowled over by the extravagant truffle cheese toastie. The word “indulgence” doesn’t come close – and top tip – it certainly helps soak-up the booze.<\/p>\n

If you visit one new wine bar in West London this summer 2015, you really should choose Vindinista.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you visit one new wine bar in West London this year, Vindinista is the one. It’s a true independent (run by local wine expert Paola Tich) with a warm, intimate atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}