Steak Bruschetta
Esca Restaurant & Wine Bar

Esca Restaurant & Wine Bar

437 Main St Middletown, CT 06457, 06457-2838, United States

Cafés • Kebab • Pizza • Fast Food


"Great atmosphere and decor, very good northern Italian food and other diverse selections, excellent appetizers and charcuterie, surprisingly large well prepared portions, amazing bread, responsive service, but, sadly a self inflicted wound on the wine by a restaurant that calls itself a wine bar. Wine should be stored and served at 55 to 65 degrees. This is challenging for many restaurants who will hover around room temperature. Unfortunately, the bottle we ordered, a well selected unusual norther Italian gem, was nowhere near even that. It was every bit of 80 degrees. Literally warm to the touch as if it were close to bright lights or the kitchen. We had to put it in the water bottle chiller. At this temperature, for any length of time, wine “cooks”, a trade term indicating spoilage. Unfortunately, ours was close to “cooked” indicating long term poor hot storage. This is sad because Esca has a smartly selected list with some delightful options. It makes no sense why they would invest in very nice wines and then undermine them. We thought maybe it was our bottle alone but we saw other reviews complaining about the warm wine. The average customer might not notice but anyone with any wine expertise will. Please Esca, fix this.We would like to come back for your delightful food but frankly, we would be hesitant to order another bottle.What an unnecessary loss…"

Jail House

Jail House

897 Pleasant Valley RdWI 53095, West Bend, United States

Steak • Cheese • American • North American


"If you are a veteran, if you are a patriot, if you love America and are sickened by those who have no respect for the flag, then avoid this place. The utter disrespect shown in continuing to fly this flag, torn, tattered, and tied off like that is disgusting.Why go to social media over this? Please know, I went to their owner/manager first. She said, “Yeah, I know. We have a new one, just haven’t had time to put it up.” Well, if you had enough time to disrespect Old Glory by taking the upper right corner of it and tying it to the flag pole, then you had enough time to show true respect to the flag by taking it down and properly disposing of it!To the Washington County Restaurant Foodies Facebook page, who deleted my post about this because they only post positive things that promote restaurants, you are cowards.To the thug behind the bar who called me out for going to social media over it, your arguments and logic are flawed. First, I didn’t run right to social media. I went to him first, asked for management, and addressed it with her. AFTER her cavalier response, THEN I went to social media. Second, your claim that I put the staff’s livelihood at risk by posting about this on social media, look inwardly first. Your disrespect for the flag puts their livelihood at risk. Third, your statement that it takes a lot of nerve to sit in their restaurant and eat their food while posting about this, I paid for my food. That argument is silly. Finally, your statement “how dare I challenge her patriotism her dad served”…I say she should then be doubly ashamed of herself!"