Vino Villa-Greenwood, IN

The hubs and I recently treated ourselves over the weekend to a date night, not something we get to enjoy very often but when we do we are always clueless as to what to do or where to go! As broke as we've been lately I was looking for ideas on the cheap but I still came up with nil! I looked for days and when Saturday rolled around I still didn't have a clue where we were going to go or what we were going to do.

Around 6 or so my mom showed up to watch the baby and off we were, destination unknown! We ended up in Greenwood initially thinking of sushi but decided that we were going to try something new.  Thai food.  So we stopped at Thai Spice.  We were hoping to have our heads blown off by spicy cuisine. We ordered our appetizer of Sun Dried Beef.  It was quite yummy.  We ordered our entree and decided to split it between us.  We ordered Nur Padd Namanhoy and asked for it Thai Spicy, the hottest that you could order it.  Our waitress called us brave.  We received our entree pretty quickly and it looked very yummy! It tasted just as good but was not as spicy as we expected or as some of our friends who enjoy Thai have led us to believe.  (After some Facebook discussion apparently we tried the wrong Thai food. We will have to try again somewhere else!) Overall it was extremely tasty! We enjoyed our dinner and then decided to head over to the mall. 

We visited Le Gourmet Chef, one of my favorite stores in hopes of finding something I've been in search of for a few weeks but didn't find what I was looking for.  Instead I found many other things that I promptly added to my wishlist.  A wishlist that is growing by the minute much to my husband's dismay!  Next we decided to hit up Teavana, seriously if you haven't visited this place you, my friend, are missing out! Much unknown to the guests that frequent there, you can order a cup of your favorite tea.  I seriously love this place!!!

After we got done with the mall it was still only 8:45pm!!! So I suggested the wine bar/shop/restaurant that we've been to once before, Vino Villa. We've only been there once, because like I said we don't get out very often, but it is one of our favorite places!  Downstairs on the main level there is a wine shop, with lots of wine and fine cheeses, on the second floor there are a few rooms all with a different decor and comfy chairs, on the third floor there is a wine bar and right now during the summer they have a few tables on the patio.  We've only visited the first and second floors and we've now eaten in two different rooms.  The atmosphere in this place is awesome, I can't describe it any other way, I just love it there.  The waitresses are very friendly and extremely knowledgeable.  My husband already knew what wine he wanted to drink but I had no idea until I flipped the menu over and discovered that they had two sangria's for the summer.  I'm a sucker for a good sangria!!!

I opted for the Raspberry/Peach White Sangria and it was ahhhh-mazing!!! The waitress told us that the peach juice they made the sangria with was from the peach tree out front. The sangria was complete with raspberries and blueberries and peaches. My husband ordered the Cameron Hughes Pinot Noir.  

Raspberry/peach white sangria.

Cameron Hughes Pinot Noir.

Since it had been a couple of hours since dinner we decided to order something to eat.  On our previous trip we had eaten the antipasti platter and enjoyed it thoroughly so we decided to give that another go.  As we were waiting on our waitress to make it back around to us we noticed a small list on a wine bottle silhouette of different meats.  

We read, and re-read that list trying to decided if we wanted to add on of those meats to our platter.  It wasn't until our waitress returned to the table and suggested a few that we made a decision.  I wanted to try the "Stagberry" and my husband wanted to try the "Gin and Juice." Odd names for salame but we were intrigued by the descriptions for them.  The Stagberry is described as, "finely ground elk studded with organic wild blueberries soaked in Indiana honey wine."  The Gin and Juice is described as, "lamb salame spiked with juniper and orange zest."  We also inquired with our waitress about the types of cheeses on our antipasti platter, on our previous trip we enjoyed two of the cheeses but one was Swiss and neither one of us are fond of Swiss.  Boy am I glad we asked because our waitress told us we could tell her the types of cheeses we prefer and they would base what they put on our plate per our preferences.  A few short minutes later she brought us our platter and a loaf of bread.  Our platter included goat cheese, Gouda, and brie (our 3 favorite cheeses!), capicola, salami, and bresaola (different Italian meats), a wonderful medley of mixed olives, and Giardineria (a spicy vegetable mix). Plus our additional meat choices!

A platter fit for a king. And his queen!

Our warm loaf of bread.

We barely had enough room to finish all of our food and our wine but it was so good! We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and I would venture to guess that Vino Villa will be our go to place for future date nights! So if you're in the Greenwood area and you're looking for a good wine for dinner/gift/whatever or if you're looking for somewhere to enjoy some fine meats, cheeses and wine, or somewhere to take your date then Vino Villa is the place to go! The staff there is very helpful and will answer all of your wine questions, even if you have a lot and the atmosphere can't be beat.