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Michael Harden, Reviewer
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Red Vault is one of the Windsor newcomers making a particular style pitch.
For all the talk of Chapel Street's Windsor end being the edgy new south-of-the-river hot spot, evidence is a bit thin on the ground. There may be a slightly down-at-heel, attractively jumbled feel to this part of the strip that contrasts nicely with the increasingly plasticised and chain store-ridden northern stretch but the new businesses that have been attracting the talk are scattered about like dots waiting to be joined. The house style for this emerging precinct is far from established. Red Vault is one of the Windsor newcomers making a particular style pitch. First impressions might have you popping it into a typical Chapel Street box: another joint with a well-sized renovation budget that stretches for the deluxe, plush end of the spectrum - complete with raised communal table, screens made from twigs, cushioned and upholstered banquettes, ottomans and burnt-red carpet. A dinky fireplace with a feeble gas flame in a rear alcove does nothing to dispel the feeling tha...
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Clem Bastow, Reviewer
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Red Vault is the sort of wine bar you wish more venues would turn in to.
Thanks to the gentrification of many eateries and booze halls during the '90s, the term "wine bar" gained some sinister connotations. Favourite pubs were turned into pastel-toned and wood-panelled "wine bars", soulful acoustic duos played Eric Clapton covers at "wine bars", men and women in a symphony of Tencel jeanswear drank at "wine bars". Fortunately, Windsor's Red Vault not only reclaims the term from the depths of '90s hell but does so in a way that most "wine bars" would find incomprehensible: it actually serves wine. Good wine, at that, and lots of it. Take that, Tencel army! More completely titled the Red Vault Wine Lovers Bar, this newish venue lives up to its name, presenting upwards of 350 varieties of fermented grape juice for your delectation. Where the wine portion of the drinks menu was once, for most bars, a simple collection of "red", "white" and - if you're really lucky - "sparkling", Red Vault's wine list is dizzying indeed. From pinot gris to sparkling red to...
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