Traveling can be a bear these days. With all that competition for parking (not to mention, remembering where the car is), the arduous bag weighing, sustaining a death grip on your drivers license, stressing about what you look like in the x-ray security camera (can they see underwire?!?), maintaining control of your teeny tiny bottles of liquid, BOTH shoes, AND your iPad… oh yeah, and lest not forget your child as you’re dashing to your gate — I think it’s safe to say that airline travelling ranks right up there with things that make Mommies want to drink wine.
Lots of wine.
Because after the flurry of activity of navigating rush hour traffic on 635 and ensuring your bags have accommodated the required pre-flight check-in time frame (God forbid you land without clothes) AND you’ve arrived at your gate at the requested boarding time so as not to be embarrassed by the gate attendant mispronouncing your name loud enough to hear within a 1/8 mile radius over the speaker system, your flight is most assuredly 4 hours delayed.
Plus you have a small easily bored human being to entertain for THAT MUCH LONGER.
Now, thank goodness, we Mommies have an oasis of calm at DFW. Like a homing pigeon, you will find yourself instinctively drawn to the freshly remodeled Terminal A, Gate 17, and sink into the chairs of the swanky new Vino Volo.
Vino Volo, where you can pretend that you’re the hip and cool mom who jet-sets with her perfectly accessorized tot, not the one who dashed out of the house like a mad woman dragging her half-zipped rolling bags down the driveway to an open trunk screaming, “Get in the car NOW, we’re going to miss our flight!”
No. That’s not you.
You are the fun urban mom who is not ashamed to bring her miniature traveling companion into the quaint airport bistro featuring small bites and wines from around the world. The sophisticated calm and modern menu is exactly what you needed to prep for the next leg of your journey.
Who cares if the flight is late? Your little one will surely be content sipping her Izze soda, and noshing on penne and cheese while you dabble in a California Kings wine flight accompanied by the smoked salmon rolls made with succulent crab meat and draped on crispy crostini that melts in your mouth. You might even split the artisanal cheese plate between the two of you – just know that she’ll share none of the dried cranberries and it’s all good.
That olive looking thing with a tail is a caper berry. And yes, you can eat it.
We had the exclusive opportunity to sample Vino Volo at their pre-opening for friends and family this week (Take that TSA — we weren’t flying anywhere!). The sophisticated atmosphere and amazing wine selections made me start searching for low cost flights just so we could get past security to visit again. I must return so I can try the braised pork tacos, chickpea and chorizo chili, and the brie and prosciutto sandwich. And don’t get me started on the chocolate torte and how it pairs heavenly with Vino Volo’s endless selection of decadent red wine.
Thankfully Vino Volo is in 22 airports nationwide (and growing), so there’s a good chance that the next time we’re stranded in say, Detroit, there’s a chic alternative to that disgusting airport food and cheap smelly beer. I mean, at Vino Volo, even the terrorist-proof knives are upscale shiny plastic – without a wrapper.
Definitely check out Vino Volo (the English translation is “wine flight” – get it??) the next time you fly anywhere. In the ridiculous marked up world of airport food prices, Vino Volo is refreshingly reasonable, and there’s something on the menu to please everyone. So plan your connections with enough time to enjoy a glass of Copain Chardonnay and some vanilla bean cheesecake. While you’re there, grab a bottle of my favorite Cloak & Dagger Zinfandel for whoever is meeting you at the other end of your ticket (and one for yourself) and distance yourself from that crazy lady who flew out of the house with her pre-printed boarding passes in one hand and the panties she forgot to pack in the other.
Opinions above are purely my own. I was not compensated for this review but I would not be offended by any swag Vino Volo would like to send my way. 😉
Management at Vino Volo DFW
Vino Volo is Princess Cupcake approved.
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