Stamford Summer Bar Tour - Stop [5] Vinny's Backyard

So far the tour hasn't strayed more than 4-5 blocks with two downtown stops (Tigin & SBC) and two downtown outlier stops (Murphy's & Casey's). To keep it interesting BlogStamford headed North into the quaint hamlet of Springdale.

My friend grew up in Springdale and has been back for a extended break. He's been harassing me to come to his local haunt, Vinny's Backyard forever but any time I walked out the door to meet him I realized I could just as easily walk to any number of downtown bars instead. That was before I took a sacred bar tour vow. I'm like a monk... or Batman... is their room for two Bat-Men is Stamford?

So I ventured to Hope St. to Springdale. I was told to look for it in a strip mall across from the Twin Rinks. You can pretend in other parts of town you're living some urban existence, but it doesn't much more suburban than when you're headed to have a beer in a strip mall. Not to sound snotty, but I didn't have high hopes for an establishment that could have conceivably been sharing a row with a Build-A-Bear Workshop.

All that aside I had a good time here. Some good brew, excellent wings, and although I haven't had, I heard the pizza is great. The place is split into two sides, a sports bar and a family dining room. We went on a Sunday night so I didn't get a good sense of the crowd, but Springdale locals is a safe assumption. Vinny's isn't looking to be the Monster B's of Springdale, drawing from all over town, luring people onto party buses to be trucked North. If you have a friend up that way, it's worth a shot.