Wine bar

Wine bars really have made a huge comeback in the past few years and this next opening really highlights that trend. One of the Savoy's main cocktail bars is about to get a complete relaunch as The Beaufort Wine Bar. 

The bar is set almost at the centre of the hotel's ground floor and has been subject to quite a few revamps over the years. The latest sees it getting a 250-bottle list, with about half of that available by the glass, as they'll be making good use of the Coravin system. Head Sommelier Romain Audrerie will be in charge. He opened Chiltern Firehouse and most

A new series of tutored wine tastings has just begun at Fortnum & Mason's Piccadilly store. We signed up to one of their Cellar Sessions to see what it was all about. 

What was once Milk Beach is now Bar Blondie. Milk Beach's Elliot Milne has brought in top sommelier Alexandra Price to team up on this European-influenced wine bar and restaurant - we went down for a look. 

London's boom of interesting sommelier-led wine bars continues with the opening of SANE in Islington. We went down to experience Maxime's vision for the place.

A former Fat Duck sommelier has opened his own wine bar in London. We went down to Clerkenwell to check out Raku Oda's Ebi. 

We head to North London to discover the best wine bars of Islington. Stoke Newington, Finsbury Park and more...

Not content with having Stable Wines, Godet and Hector's on their doorsteps, the folks of De Beauvoir now have a shiny new wine bar to check out.

De Beauvoir Wines has seen everyone's favourite local grocery store, the De Beauvoir Deli, give their former cafe a wine bar makeover. "It felt like the natural next step," says owner Harry Davies. "We wanted to create a place where you can drop in for a glass of wine after work and always feel looked after."

The wine list has been put together by the deli's manager Alex. "He wanted to create a wine list that reflects the kind of

The stretch between Borough and Southwark now has a compelling new bar and restaurant offering, courtesy of Lady of the Grapes. We went down for a few glasses of wine and to peruse the French bistro menu.

We've been following the progress of this one for quite some time now, but there's finally a date in the diary for Ebi to open its doors. This is going to be one of those extremely interesting wine bars you're going to want to know about. Why? Well, because the founder is Raku Oda a very well-respected sommelier and master of wine student who was previously the sommelier at Heston's The Fat Duck in Bray.

For a year or so now, Raku's been having Ebi pop-ups at the Islington hair studio Teto, which have been run by his wife Tomoko while he searched for somewhere permanent to open.

28/5/26 - updated with soft launch offer

For seven years, Lady of the Grapes has been one of the best wine bars in Covent Garden. Now they're heading to Borough as part of one of the area's best-looking buildings, the Menier Chocolate Factory. The new Lady of the Grapes SE1 will have the same focus on female winemakers as the original, but in a much larger space. Each of the two levels of the bar will have a different approach.

On the ground floor, there will be the main restaurant, seating around 60, with 20 more on the terrace. Like the original in

26/5/26 - updated with the opening date

Vagabond have been on a bit of a growth spurt recently, having recently unveiled their own urban winery in Canada Water. Now they're opening what's being described as their largest bar yet, in the middle of Soho. 

If you're still unfamiliar with the way Vagabond works, it's centred around their enomatic-style wine system, which lets them offer around 120 wines available by the glass at any time. Just

Milk Beach has a big restaurant in Soho, but they originally began life in Queen's Park. However, that first Milk Beach is about to be reborn in a new guise, Bar Blondie. 

The new Bar Blondie will be a wine bar that's run by Elliot Milne (who's behind Milk Beach) with award-winning sommelier Alexandra Price (previously Bar Crispin and Plates). Leaving behind the Australian influence of Milk Beach, this time the bar is looking to Southern Europe for inspiration. 

That means the menu here will now take its cues from French and Italian cuisine, with dishes

We went to expand our wine tastes with the eclectic Eastern European-focused list at new Notting Hill wine bar Sova.

Weezie's brings pizza and wine together, coming from the same team as Amie Wine Studio (and opening next door). We went down to Belgravia to check out London's latest wine bar/pizzeria. 

From new openings near Hyde Park to old-school favourites, here are our pick of the best places to drink wine in West London.