Wine bar

Here's our list of the best places to drink wine in East London

The coolest wine bars might be predominantly found in East London, but central London has plenty to offer the discerning oenophile. Here's our pick of the best new wave and old school places to drink wine in the middle of town. 

Two-part Japanese restaurant in Mayfair

Amid all the festive craziness pre-Christmas, a new wine bar opened its doors for the first time in E10. Swirl is a new bar that sees three local entrepreneurs joining forces. Arch Deli owner Michaela Zelenaska has teamed up with Pandemonium Wines founders Viliam and Prianka for the new wine bar in one of Tilbury Road's railway arches.

It sounds like they're bringing something genuinely new to London's burgeoning wine bar

Goodbye Horses has opened a combo wine and ice cream bar just across the road, and it looks spectacular. We went down to have a scoop of ice cream and behold The Dreamery.  

If you're a wine buff who loves the thrill of the new then heading out in London on Beaujolais Nouveau night is the perfect pairing for you. Be the first to try the fruits of the latest harvest with various events, wine tastings and parties going on around town for it. 

If you've enjoyed a great biodynamic or organic bottle of wine in a London restaurant recently, there's a decent chance that it was imported by Dynamic Vines. They supply restaurants across the capital from Mountain and Lita to The Plimsoll and Peckham Bazaar. Now the wine buyer team there are getting ready to open their first wine shop and bar, dealing directly with the public. They've picked a good spot too, a

If the enticing cakes and pastries at Quince Bakery weren't enough to prompt a visit, the arrival of a new wine bar residency at the bakery is a further reason to go. Basket Press Wines is an importer of low-intervention wines and ciders from Central and Eastern Europe. Run by husband and wife team Jiri Majerik and Zainab Majeriková, they're now popping up every weekend at Quince.

Zainab used to be head

Christmas season has now properly kicked off, and as the nights get colder the idea of mulled wine becomes very attractive. Making the most of that is a wine bar group in London that's created a mulled wine trail. 

Coming from the people behind the new wine bar Quill (in Borough Yards) and Plume (in Covent Garden) the trail is between those two venues, starting at either one (just turn up, no

Islington now has a second boozer turned wine pub to check out. We went to see what Godet on Essex Road has to offer.

Five years after throwing open the doors of her Irish restaurant just off the King's Road, chef and writer Anna Haugh is now in the process of unveiling her latest enterprise in the area. The Wee Sister is Haugh's new wine bar and it really is a close sibling, being right next door to the restaurant.

The bar has taken over another wine space, Last Drop Wines. As Anna explained to us, "It's an Irish wine bar

Binch wine bar in Hackney has been a local favourite since opening back in 2021. Opened by Frenchman Sylvain Bertozzi the small bar and bottle shop is certainly one of the best wine bars in East London. Now news reaches us that Bertozzi is looking to expand to nearby North London, opening a bar on Essex Road.  

South West London wine lovers who are looking for a nice bar and bottle shop in their neighbourhood should make a note of the arrival of the Vining Street Wine Club in Brixton. It's the latest opening from the same team as the Crystal Palace Wine Club, who say they're "committed to breaking down the pretentiousness of the wine industry". Their slogan actually is "Wine without the bullshit".

To that end, they'll be

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

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