Wine bar

They've quietly been getting a strong following in Clerkenwell and now The Drunken Butler (now renamed Tehran-Berlin) are getting ready to open a wine bar opposite their restaurant. 

Announced by owner Yuma Hashemi (who once had something of a

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Highbury Corner in Islington is doing rather well for wine bars right now. Not only does it have Yield and, a short 10-minute walk away, Provisions (both shops by day, wine bars in the evening) but one of Islington's best restaurants has also just opened a wine bar next door. 

Trullo's wine bar takes over what used to be their shop. It's a tiny space

Given the current cost of living crisis we're all for a new wine bar that's bringing down the cost of drinking good wine.

In the same month we lost one of London's oldest restaurants (fingers crossed that's only temporary) it's good to hear that another of London's eighteenth century hostelries is being resurrected.

The Bleeding Heart Wine Bar's doors have been closed since the pandemic. And faint hearts

Updated 7/11/22 with opening date

It was only a matter of time: Shoreditch is getting its first natural wine bar. Starting out in 2020 as a next-day-UK-wide-wine-delivery service during lockdown, Oranj is morphing beyond being an online portal to a dedicated bar and kitchen, where you can sip low-ABV reds from Jura while chatting with rotating guest chefs doing residencies in a

We're always keen to hear about new wine bars opening in London. The arrival of 56 Smithfield in Farringdon couldn't be more handy in these cash-pressed times, particularly when you hear that this new spot is selling all the wines at their original, local winery prices. If you fancy drinking in, then just add a fiver as a corkage fee.

The folk behind it are the family who run organic vineyard Château De La

They already have wine bars on Drury Lane and in Clapham and now Drop Wine bar has just opened another - this time in Kensington.  

The Drop (also a wine delivery app) comes from Ian Campbell and Will Palmer, who also happen to be the pair behind The Ten Cases and Parsons in Covent Garden. The Drops are all run independently, however, and this West London outpost is owned and

Bring two wine importers, a charcuterie genius and a chef trained up at London's hottest restaurants together and you have the team behind this hit wine bar on Newington Green.

Robin and Sarah Gill, who are the people behind Darby's The Dairy and more, have transformed a corner of Brixton into a small Parisian-style wine bar. We went down for a look. 

Notting Hill has a bouji new wine bar with some serious open-fire cooking going on. We headed west to try it out. 

Updated 5/7/22 with opening date and soft launch info

Irish chef Robin Gill is keeping himself nicely busy this summer. In an announcement today, one day before the opening of his new Kensington restaurant, Maria G's, Gill revealed that he and his wife Sarah also have a

Provisions on Holloway Road has reopened its wine bar for the first time since the lockdowns. We went to try their amazing charcuterie boards and wines by the glass.

Back in the dark days of the lockdowns, we happened about Bottle - a lovely wine shop in Highgate that seemed to stock some particularly good wines and beers. Now we hear that they've just expanded into the site next door to become a fully-fledged 'licensed cafe and store'.

That licensed cafe bit is important because while they are now a wine bar, they're also going to be open from breakfast serving up

Not seen since the heady pre-Pandemic days, popular North London cheese and wine store Provisions has decided to bring back its wine bar. For three nights each week the Holloway Road shop will transform from a store to a casual wine bar.

There'll be room for 20 folk to sit up at the counter to enjoy a wine offering that's focused on organic and biodynamic wine. Of course there's food to go along with

The openings at Borough Yards, the new development close to Borough Market are continuing apace - and that includes three new openings from the same people, the Harts Group. They're planning to open both a Barrafina and a Parrillan - but also a new Spanish wine bar, Bar Daskal.

We see it as something of a sibling to their The Drop wine bar at King's Cross. It has a list that's