Wine Connection Tapas Bar & Bistro Robertson Walk

I like this place for its affordable range of wines & the music! Nice to visit on both weekday & weekend. Have not tried the food yet. Friendly & attentive staff on both of my visits here.

This place is popular and very nice. I’m still adamant that they are strongest with pasta and weakest with pizza (although never tried but no one wants to order). The steak and tuna steak I think are just ok. Salads are above average. This venue is huge but it’s popular so it can be fully packed at peak times. Nice selection of wines that are super cheap.

Lovely foie gras platter but their fish and chips weren’t too good. The pork schnitzel was not too bad but could have been better. Overall ambience and service was good.

My friends and I went there this night for dinner, and we like it a lot! We didn’t expect too much because a lot of people here said it’s only cheap but not delicious. When we got there, we found it was true that the food and wine are cheap, but they were really spanish and delicious. The service is impressive as well. We will definitely recommend it to the others! Super!!! The paella and pizza there are really incredible. Paella tastes really good, not salty and greedy with lots of sea food. Pizza is thin and crispy, highly recommended!
But you may need to wait for about ten to twenty minutes outside the restaurant for a seat, but the queue moves pretty fast.

Cheap wine is the only thing good here. I’m honestly surprised this place is so popular. Also, don’t get the tuna steak– its drenched in oil and you can smell it. Don’t come here for food; come here for the atmosphere and wine.

Excellent price for wines and awesome food for pairing! The business model here is on quantity so very good bottles of wine go for a very reasonable price.

I was here on a Sunday evening this time. The food was simple — salads and bread basket -, but still good value for money and very tasty. The bread is IMPECCABLE! The crust is uniquely original in Singapore!
The wine selection is very broad, and it is not as expensive as you would assume in Singapore. You can’t go wrong.
The service is smooth, fluid, attentive, sometimes a little in your face.
Compared to my last visit, the place improved. If service gets a little more «invisibly excellent», it will deserve the 5 stars.

Great, cheap wine. It was amazing how extensive their selection was and each bottle was about half the price of what it would have been in other restaurants. The wine is really excellent. The service is a little lackadaisical. The food is decent, although I would prefer to go to another of the restaurants around there for the food (Bella Pasta or Ippudo, especially) and then come here to drink.

You don’t come here for the food, you come here for cheap (but decent!) wine and awesome atmosphere!
With that said, i think their food offerings are still acceptable, especially for the portion and price point. I would recommend the truffle pasta and parma ham pizza.
It’s really one of my favorite place to go in town, but!!! unless you get here early enough you most likely will have to wait for a table. so come here early.

This watering hole is one of my favourite! Maybe cause all drinks and food is cheap? Maybe cause there’re eye candies in the crowd? Maybe the music gets better as it gets later (may actually be due to more drinks in me but who cares)? Regardless of what your reasons are, this place is one of the best places to chill out on on a weekend.
Awesome wine at awesome prices. My personal favourite has got to be the Birds and Bees. Looks like red wine, smells like red wine but… tastes fruity and nice. I have had people, who hates red wine, finish glass after glass of Birds and Bees.
For main dishes, you can never go wrong with the muzzels. Oooo they taste so good and at that price, you have gotta order it. Parma Ham Pasta in Truffle Oil is so good too.
At the end of the day, remember the price you’re paying vs the quality of food you’re getting :)

In a country with 2 distinct restaurant segments — curiously cheap (hawker food) and extremely expensive (nearly everything else) — Wine Connection is one of the few establishments which actually sits inbetween these segements. It’s a refreshing option with decent food, well priced drinks, and good ambiance. I wish I had found this place sooner!
With house glasses of wine at $ 6/​class ($ 19/​50cL) and beers for $ 9, the drinks are very well priced. Throw in well priced food (about $ 12-​$ 20), a large open area with modern décor and a large patio situated right on Robertson Walk, and you have yourself a winner!
With a large selection of beers and a good selection of well-​priced win — you definitely come here for the drinks. The only reason it’s not 5 stars for me is because the food is average: I’m not a fan of their margarheita pizza ($ 12) — the crust wasn’t thin enough so it was a bit dough-​y and the cheese and sauce is a bit thin — but their apple crumble ($ 6) is alright, and cheese plate was average, coming with 5 slices of cheese and 2 slices of bread ($ 12). I wouldn’t’ go out of my way for the food here, there are certainly better options in the area, but if you’re hungry it’s passable. They also have tapas which looked good, but I didn’t have the chance to try them.
I’ll definitely be back to this place to have some drinks with friends!

Love this place. Extensive wine list at very good prices (as one would expect, the main business is wine).
Attentive service, good food. Need to come early to enjoy it as it tends to be absolutely packed every night.

I was surprised to see this place packed to the brim on a weekday evening! It was my first time there for a small gathering. The restaurant could fit about 80 pax (both indoor & outdoor seating).
1. Pan fried sea bass fillet — Ok. Not impressive. The fish was fresh and pan-​fried well but it lacked flavor.
2. Sausage & mashed potatoes — My friend ordered this and I had a bite out of it. The sausage was pretty salty. I didn’t really like it. I am not a big fan of sausage so my opinion is probably biased to begin with.
3. Pizza (margarita) — Good! Crispy, thin pizza! Yummy. A classic.
4. Tiramisu — Meh. Too much cream, not enough espresso or anything else.
5. Wine — Good. Can’t remember what bottles we had though.
Ambiance — Earthy tones and wooden furnitures. Dimly lit. Would be ideal for a date if it wasn’t so crowded and noisy. Perfect for the after-​work-​grab-​a-​drink with friends crowd. Good pizza & wine.

I’m thankful for this place as it’s a great hiding place for anyone trying to avoid seeing familiar faces out at the main roads of Robertson Quay and Mohd Sultan.
Yup, I’m not at work today. It’s a great sunny afternoon and we’re surprised to find this wine spot that’s open. They even have $ 15 lunch promotions — no one must know about it because there’s hardly anyone here save for the lone Ang-​mo… And erm, us.
Beer is $ 9 now (only 2 choices of beer in the day); the $ 5 tapas and all are only after 4pm. We ordered Hawaiian pizza, it’s thin-​crust (way too thin), 12-​inch, and if you want chili flakes it’s okay, not cheese though — they charge $ 2 for it (say WHAT?) The Hawaiian pizza tastes a little lacking of something.
The service is sub-​par, everyone looks as if they’re waiting to come alive in the evening — which is a sight I’d like to witness.
I do realise this review is slightly unfair seeing that I’m visiting a wine bar in the daytime, so here’s one more star for the free plain water and the light lounge music: D
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I went there with four friends. Although the place is a little noisy it is quite packed so I do not understand why it has such bas reviews. I went there on a Wednesday evening — completely packed.
They have a good selection of wine at affordable prices. All the wines we tried (4 of them were good), from the Rioja, to the croze hermitage, to the cote du Rhone and to the Chilean wine… all good choices.
I had the cold cuts platter — it was good. Not the best ever but good, and and $ 15 only.

Don’t be fooled by the $ 5 tapas. There’s a reason why they are $ 5. Bad, just bad.
The only thing that got me coming back to this place is the cheap wine, and the big space. This place is great for groups. Not so much on a weekend evening where it gets very busy and noisy, but it is a great place to not fret about getting a table when you’re a big group in the afternoon or early evening.
Friday/​Sat evenings — too busy, too noisy, some random eye candies.
I wish the food is better though. So far, they have always disappoint. I have decided to only stick to drinks plus the cheese platter at most. Though this outlet’s menu is the most extensive, the other outlets seems to have better food though.

My least favourite in the Wine Connection family, even though it’s also the newest.
Located in Robertson Walk, they’ve got a pretty big space with a generous outdoor area as well, and they’ve filled it to the brim with tables and seating options. It’s always packed, though, and it’s hard to get a table if you arrive late in the evening.
The food doesn’t impress me at all, and, much like the other Wine Connection, this isn’t a place you come to for the food, even though they’ve tried to pay extra attention to the menu in this particular one. The wine is cheap, but the selection is not as extensive as the other Wine Connections.
Everything is pretty average, but the things that really make me despise this place are 1) the incredibly loud, cacophonic music that prevents any real conversation from taking place, and 2) the harried staff that can actually get pretty rude.
Not worth a visit, in my opinion. I’d much rather hang out at the other Wine Connection close to the taxi stand — it’s quiet, less crowded, and they have far more options to choose from when it comes to wine.

Looking for a great place to ‘migrate’ to after a romantic dinner? Or are your friends tired of paying exorbitant prices for a glass of house reds that taste like bleurgh?
Though a little out of the way (I usually walk here from Clarke Quay — it takes a good 15 minutes to get here), it is worth the trip — though a table is hard to guarantee, unless you have reservations. The restaurant itself oozes with the fragrance of the wine corks and the wood from the caskets, and the al fresco dining area is very enjoyable as well — being by the river, it’s pretty windy.

If you’re looking to get drunk on cheap, this is the place to be. With the generous specials offered, you’re set to get a decent bottle for about $ 40. Ambience was sexy — Loud music, dim lights, longish, sleek décor. Only drawback was that we were seated near the kitchen and despite the window film used to block the view, one could see the flames from the other side and also feel the roaring heat through the window. The staff had awesome skin tight dresses as uniforms though, with a way too generous slit down the back.
Ordered up bottles of pinot grigio and German riesling in quick succession. With the DJ spinning live, and us bopping to the music, let’s just say we didn’t quite make it home before our carriage turned into a pumpkin that night.

I came here last weekend and was pretty impressed by their décor exterior — and as I flipped through their menu, I noticed that they had $ 5 Tapas options, and I was like, ooh! We so gotta dine here! Hah. It’s hard to get good Tapas around Singapore — and I’m always on the lookout for good places and options. So, we thought, what the hec, eh? I liked the ambiance — and the bustly kinda feel. The restaurant’s pretty big, not wide but long and it can fit quite a bit of people, so you’ll pretty much get a seat. It has a somewhat commercial feel to it though.
What I Love: The staff are pretty quick. Food arrived very quickly. We ordered a Vegetable Salad — which was very fresh and good. For drinks, I had a Mojito, and my date, a glass of wine. We also got Tapas, but that’ll be discussed in the What I Don’t Love section. Hah.
What I Don’t Love: The music was very loud actually. I couldn’t really hear my date at all — and it was bit distracting. Though the décor is nice, and there’s music, the staff were a little off. Like the service was okay, but it just seemed forced. Like they won’t very pleased about working there? I just didn’t get a good vibe. We ordered all the traditional Tapas, and like 5 plates — and they arrived really quickly. The Patatas Bravas was average. Hmmmm. Didn’t really taste like what I’ve had before. The Cheese Balls were the only nice thing. The Anchovies on bread was urgh. Croquettes were urgh. And the Meatballs were the absolute worse — salty and not tasty at all. Hugely disappointed. Was happy to leave actually. It just seemed so commercial and there was nothing special about it. Sorry — not going back. Ever.