Wine bar

Late last year, Islington wine bar Vins closed after eight years in Canonbury. But now a new wine bar is getting ready to emerge in its place, as Conviviale has just opened its doors. 

It comes from Cat Barry, who's new to hospitality, having quit her job in tech a couple of years back, but brings with her a love (and large collection) of wine. Originally from Montreal, "another great city with great nightlife, energy and food scene", her aim is to bring some of that vibe to the local area. 

Starting first with the wine, Cat has long had a love of wine and has

The growth in London's wine bars is continuing apace and the latest to open is Tilly's, a new neighbourhood wine bar which has just landed in Shepherd's Bush. 

It's run by Shepherd's Bush local Tilly James, who has "worked in restaurants since the age of 13" but started in London working with Sam Harrison. More recently, she has run The Hawk's Nest and The Bush Tavern before opening her own space, fundraised with £10k support from backers. 

We caught up with her to find out more about Tilly's. "Growing up in Cape Town

They're one of our favourite local wine bars, with shops on Newington Green and Highbury Corner, and now Yield are consolidating their North London holding with a third opening, in Angel.

In a few weeks' time they'll be throwing open the doors to their Essex Road site. As they explained to Hot Dinners. "Our newest site, Yield Essex Road has the same vibe as our St Paul’s Road site, but a very different offering to our flagship in Newington Green, recently voted Coolest Neighbourhood 2026.

"We’ll do both eat-in/drink-in and takeaway, with wines to take away as well as to

Until now, Temper has been known mainly for its steaks and tacos in Soho and the City, but they're about try something different. They're opening a new wine bar called Temper Tantrums in Marylebone. 

They're taking on a space that was until very recently a Be At One bar that's pretty close to Oxford Street (it only just closed at the end of August). Under Temper, it's going to be a combo wine bar and live music space. It's also following the template we've seen from a few bars like this. So it's starting with coffee and pastries in the morning and changing into a wine bar as

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