Vin Rouge

2010 Hillsborough Rd, Durham
(919) 416-0466

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Carlye Daugird

If you like french food you are going to love this place! Seriously really amazing macaroni and cheese. I kid you not get the mac and cheese and there's enough to share for 3 or 4 people. Their salads and french fries are also amazing but don't fill up too much because you will definitely want to get dessert. I highly recommend the chocolate mousse or the apple bread pudding great gin and tonics I recommend conniption gin. And I've never had a bad waitress waiter sitch.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Alleah Salone

We had a big party so did a family style dinner. The steak and salmon was delicious. The mashed potatoes were so creamy and delicious as well.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jason Piche

Brunch was great. Croque Madame was perfect. Attentive service, French bistro atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

A R

Excellent experience, from the welcome greeting to the “I hope you had a great time”. The servers, very caring. The food, a pleasure. Everything high quality. You should try the duck. It’s delicious!!!!!! Food is well prepared and you don’t feel bad after eating. Not fatty or oily at all. A great French experience. We will surely come back when we are in town.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ebony Boston

Absolutely delicious. Warm inviting, slightly intimate depending on were you are sitting. Beautiful. quaint

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Austin Gilmore

I was very disappointed by my experience at this restaurant. I had always heard that Vin Rouge had great food (although I mainly heard about their Mac and cheese which I had tried years ago, which was meh...) and I was excited to give it another chance after many years.
For the food, we tried to go with some classic French foods, so we chose: escargot, steak tare tare, trout, and paté. I've had all of these before and they're some of my favorite French foods, but some of them were just okay and others were outright horrible. The escargot literally tasted like dirt, which in past experiences with it at other restaurants, had just been loads of butter and garlic. Hard to go wrong with that. The other dish that was less than passable was the trout, which lacked much flavor, was over cooked, and somehow, again, tasted like dirt. Not that these dishes tasted bad, but they literally had the distinct taste of dirt. The steak tare tare and the paté were passable, but definitely not good enough to be the saving grace of this meal and 100% not worth the price of this restaurant.
On top of the food being bad, the service was not good at all. While the server was nice enough and personable, we ordered within maybe 5 or 10 minutes of sitting down, but had to wait something like an hour before the first dishes slowly started coming out. In the end, we stayed in the restaurant around 2+ hours, mostly due to the massive wait time.
After giving this restaurant another chance after maybe 15 years, it does not deserve the reputation that it has relied on all these years, and is definitely not worth even close to what they are charging.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 2

Hugh T

Great food and friendly service! The staff was gracious from the moment we walked in and went out of their way to make it feel like a special night for my wife and me. Highly recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bachir Hama Abdou Ide

The food is good but don’t go there if you’re hungry bcz they took time

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 3

Elif Yildirim

We waited 1.5 hours to eat our dinner because they were caring their pick up orders more “perfectly “ than their usual- sitting customers.
Time-Management/ management 0
Service 5
Food 4. It’s better to be a take out customer rather than regular.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

Teresa Acosta

Great food. Funky French atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Escargots, Trout Amandine, Hanger Steak, Frisée Aux Lardons, Bouillabaise Rouille

John Hite

Always a top notch experience! From the moment you walk through the door until you leave, it's always great. Host staff and wait staff are excellent.

We visited this time for our 25th anniversary.

Started with a cocktail and wine. Snails and a cheese plate. I'm not into snails, but my wife lives them. The cheeses were delicious!

Hanger steak for me, fish for the wife. Perfect! Got an on-the-house chocolate something or other for our anniversary. Soooo decadent!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jennifer Melcher

I had an intimate wedding dinner here in the red room. It was perfect for our group of 14 (but there was room for a couple more). The service was incredible. I felt so well taken care of the whole time, and the food was magnificent (as it always is here). They printed custom menus with our names and date which I thought was a sweet touch. I would highly recommend for a high-end private event!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rakiah Anderson

I wanted to try this restaurant as a birthday treat. The atmosphere was nice and lended itself to the special occasion. The cheese and wine were so good, but the lamb/potato chef’s special (pictured below) was absolutely awful; it was too salty and had a weird texture. I also noticed they delivered my entree to the wrong table, took it back, walked out the room, and then brought it to me. Of note, I appreciated the candle lit dessert they provided at the end of my meal.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Shlomo Turano

The head chef Steve showed us unbelievable kindness and hospitality. It was a meal we’ll never forget. Thank you so much.

Food: 5

Service: 5

mylo hutchens

fantastic! from start to finish. cocktails were great. server was very knowledgeable and warm towards our dietary restrictions.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

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