Press
Vin Room wins 2011 Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. Three years in a row. 26 Calgary Restaurants are 2011 Award of Excellence winners.
Vin Room hosting a 2011 Decanter World Wine Awards
Global Tasting powered by Enomatic this October
This October, Vin Room, Calgary, Canada will be giving guests the opportunity to try award -winning wines from the 2011 Decanter World Wine Awards, as part of Decanter’s Global Tastings programme in partnership with Enomatic. We are proud to be the only venue in Canada to offer the DWWA and will be offering 16 award winning wines by the taste.
Vin Room in Calgary Herald- Best Patios. August, 2011
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/your+through+Calgary+patios/5218461/story.html
Vin Room Receives Gold Award at Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival – April 2011
http://playhousewinefest.com/sites/playhousewinefest2/files/VPIWF_AwardsLunch2011vF.pdf
Vin Room receives 5 Mentions in Avenue Magazine’s 2010 Best Restaurants – March 2011
- Best Place to Take Out of Town Guests- Runner Up
- Best Late Night Dining- Honorable Mention
- Best Patio –Honorable Mention
- Best Wine List- Runner Up
- Best Small Plates- Honorable Mention
Vin Room featured in Food Service World Magazine
Vin Room featured in City Style and Living Magazine
http://www.nxtbook.com/dawson/ksmedia/citystyleandliving-spring11/#/22
Vin Room in Avenue Magazine’s “Renovations and Reimaginings”
Vin Room Wins “Best Service” in Where Magazine’s “Where to Dine” Awards, January 2010
http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/where_calgary_magazine/wherecalgary_jf11/2011010401/
Vin Room Management Team in the Calgary Herald, November 2010
“Growth of Female Entrepreneurs Reflected In Mission Wine Bar”
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Women+Calgary+Room/3825822/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
Vin Room Announces New Executive Chef Claire Cameron- August 2010
Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival Award Winner – April 24, 2010
The Calgary Herald’s wine blogger Shelley Boettcher brings her “Uncorked in Calgary” to video with a new weekly series starting today. Each week Shelley will feature a different “bargain” wine from some of Calgary’s most interesting wine personalities. On this edition of Wine of the Week, Shelley heads to the Vin Room for a 2007 Finca Resalso from Spain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYjsvsbGAKY
Vin Room wins “Best Wine List” – Avenue Magazine – Feb 25, 2010
Vin Room featured on Food Service World Feb 2010
”Best New Restaurant of 2009″ – Dec 23, 2009. John Gilchrist, Calgary Herald
Listed as one of five wine bars to try in Canada – “A World Of Wine”
Joanne Sasvari – Canwest News Service. Dec 5, 2009
Vin Room makes – “The Best of Calgary’s Food Scene”
Shelley Boettcher, Trent Edwards, Emma Gilchrist, Yvonne Jeffery, Lisa Kadane, Michelle Magnan
And Robin Summerfield , Calgary HeraldMay 15, 2009
“Vin C’est Bon – Mission gets some good eats and a whole lotta wine”
Tara MacKinnon, Fast Forward Weekly. Feb 12, 09
“…..the coolest second-story lounge in the city and a patio so large it’ll likely offer the best outdoor sitting in the city come summer.”
www.CalgarySun.com. Feb 13, 2009
Featured in CitySpice.com
Vino Divino Calgary Style – Feb 2009
“There is so much more to Vin Room than just the wine bar…….they will have enough of what it takes to be a success.”
Adrian Bryksa, www.R4NT.com. Feb 11, 2009
”On any given night you’ll encounter a throng of ladies toasting to single hood and success at the newly opened Vin Room”
www.VitaminDaily.com. Jan 29, 2009
“4.5 out of 5”
Tom Firth for CBC radio’s Homestretch. Jan 15, 2009.
“The busiest place of all? Hands down, the new kid on the block — Vin Room …… will likely become the model for many more wine bars to come.”
John Gilchrist, Jan 13, 2009 Calgary Herald.
“The seriously sexy decor is just as easy on the eyes.”
Meghan Jessiman, Calgary Herald’s Swerve. Jan 9, 2009.
Vin Room makes top “50 things we love about our city’s food scene”
Jan 9, 2009 Calgary Herald.
“………sommelier Karen Kho has hit a home run with the wine list. Put simply, I love this place.”
Jan 7, 2009 www.Chowhound.com
“A Vin-ning Idea”
www.sweetspot.ca, Dec 19, 2008
“Taking over the former Mission Cycle space, Vin Room is aiming to make its mark with an intimate atmosphere, a gourmet small plates menu, and more vintages than
Goodwill.”
Richard Trapunski, www.Martiniboys.com. Dec 12, 2008.
