Wine bar

• Boxcar Bread & Wine is a new bakery by day, wine bar at night for Connaught Village

  

  If there are two things Londoners are obsessed with right now, it's bakeries and wine bars. So the arrival of Boxcar Bread & Wine is going to be a boon for the well-heeled denizens of Connaught Village as it's a neat combo of both. It comes from the same team behind Boxcar Bar and Grill and Boxcar Baker & Deli in Marylebone. 

  This new neighbourhood spot, taking over

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• New Spitalfields bar 68 & Shanghai pairs wine and katsu sandos

  

  Regular Hot Dinners readers will know that we're very much in favour of all the new wine bars opening in London of late and this latest Spitalfields addition sounds very promising. 

  68 & Shanghai comes from the team behind 68 & Boston in Soho, who also run the nearby Yuu Kitchen (as well as Opium, The Last Talisman and Lucy Wong). It's replaced what was the

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• The Vinery is Heathrow's new wine bar with its own sommelier app

  

  Air travel is almost always a stressful experience, so we're heartened to hear about the arrival of a new wine bar at Heathrow that'll make any delay there a lot more bearable.

  The Vinery has just opened in Terminal 2 and, as the name suggests, it's all about the wine. The list here will celebrate English wine, although it will also feature wine from around the world, and there are special wine-tasting events planned

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• Quill wine bar to open in Borough Yards from the Plume and Finch team

  

  Borough Market and the London Bridge area has had a lot of interesting openings this year, from Oma to ...

• Test Driving Sol's - a cool new wine bar for Bayswater

  

  The arrival of Sol's in Bayswater is the latest interesting opening for the area. We went down to see what this deli by day, wine bar by night had to offer. 

• Test Driving Stem + Stem - a triple threat in the City of wine bar, restaurant and florist

  

  With an experienced team behind it, this florist, wine bar and restaurant in the heart of the City is offering something fresh and new to Londoners. We went to check out Stem + Stem by Mansion House. 

• Monmouth Street Wines is the new wine bar pop up from The Oystermen duo

  

  We'll confess we had no idea that Matt Lovell and Rob Hampton - the duo better known as The Oystermen - had opened a wine bar called Bedford Street Wines in Covent Garden a few years back. But you live and learn and now the pair are at it again. They're just about to launch a pop-up wine bar and bottle shop, Monmouth Street Wines, in Covent Garden's Seven Dials.

  They've taken over the corner site at the

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• Test Driving Goodbye Horses - a groundbreaking new wine bar in Islington

  

  An old pub in Islington has been transformed into something really rather special. We popped along to new wine bar Goodbye Horses to check it out.

• Oy Bar bring their oysters and wine to Balham, with Wimbledon next

  

  We're a bit slow to this, as Oybar has been open in Balham for almost a month, but the duo behind this new oyster bar are already working on their second place. Owners Evgeniy and Catriona are gearing up for a Wimbledon opening later this year.

  As the name suggests, oysters are the main thrust of the menu with options available depending on the season. They can be enjoyed as an Oy shot, with a shot of vodka or a

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• Sol's wine bar, deli and bottle shop continues Bayswater's renaissance as a foodie destination

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  We're always interested when a hitherto unexciting part of London suddenly starts to see a slew of interesting food and drink openings. Right now, that area is Baywater. Hot on the heels of the arrival of Jeremy King's The Park and the imminent opening of all the places at The Whiteley comes new wine bar Sol's. And while a new wine bar is always a good thing, this one sounds particularly

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• Islington gets a combo wine bar, coffee shop and gelato bar with an ex-Papi chef

  

  Updated 21/6/24 with opening date and menu details

  Lucky Islington residents are about to get a new coffee shop, wine bar and restaurant and an ice cream parlour, all in the space of a month or so. The three businesses by co-founders Alex Young and George de Vos are taking over the old Michael's Den pub on the borders of Islington and De Beauvoir.

  First to open will be the coffee shop

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• Charlotte Street is getting an Alsatian wine bar and restaurant called July

  

  Updated with the opening date

  Opening in the spring but confusingly named after a summer month, July is going to be an Alsatian-inspired restaurant and wine bar hitting up Charlotte Street. And while this is the first hospitality venture for the pair behind it, they've brought in a team that shows they know what they're doing.

  French-Swiss food writer Solynka Dumas and Julian Oschmann are the

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• Cloth restaurant and wine bar to open in Farringdon

  

  What do you get when two wine importers team up with a notable London chef? An oenophile’s dream dining destination is opening near Smithfield Market in Farringdon. Called Cloth, the restaurant and wine bar is opening in a Grade-II-listed building opposite St Bartholomew on an historic row that survived the Great Fire of 1666. It comes to you courtesy of wine importers Joe Haynes and Ben Butterworth, along

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• Test Driving Bruno - a jewel of a wine bar in Victoria Park Village

  

  Michael Sager's new Victoria Park wine bar, Bruno, is a really personal project. We popped over to take a look.

• Lower Wine Bar opens near Waterloo Station

  

  If the seemingly constant threat of train strikes has you on edge, there is a heartening escape route near Waterloo Station and it’s likely to have oenophiles particularly excited. Lower is a wine bar and cellar shop that opened in a very low-key fashion in February, giving its three local owners time to hone the concept of their first project together. You may have already spotted the steamed-up windows,

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