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- Test Driving Bottle + Rye - a Parisian-style wine bar in the heart of Brixton
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.
- Test Driving Caia - an absolute gem of a neighbourhood wine spot on Golborne Road
Notting Hill has a bouji new wine bar with some serious open-fire cooking going on. We headed west to try it out.
- Robin and Sarah Gill are opening Bottle & Rye - a Parisian-style wine bar in Brixton
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
... - Test Driving Provisions Wine Bar on Holloway Road - the return of a real neighbourhood gem
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.
- Highgate's Bottle wine shop expands to become a licensed cafe too
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
... - Provisions on Holloway Road is bringing back its wine bar
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
... - Bar Daskal is a Spanish wine bar in Borough Yards from the Barrafina team
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
... - Vin-Yard is a mash-up wine and pizza bar by Top Cuvee and Yard Sale Pizza this May
You could never accuse the folk at either Top Cuvee or Yard Sale on letting the grass grow under their feet. And now, the two hardest grafters in town are teaming up for what promises to be an epic collaboration.
Vin-Yard will take over the basement space at Yard Sale Pizza's Hackney Road location. It will be, they say "the perfect marriage of wine bar and pizza parlour. Top Cuvée have come up
... - Drop on the Common is a new Clapham Common wine bar by the Ten Cases team
Drop Wine, by the team behind The Ten Cases and Parsons, were one of the first to kick off wine delivery on demand (something which proved very useful indeed during the lockdowns). On top of that, they also have a shop on Drury Lane, which is also a small wine bar (see the pic above). Next up - they're heading south to Clapham Common, and this will be both a shop
... - Vinoteca's new Borough Yards opening will be a wine bar with views
Updated 10/2/22 with opening date
As new food hub Borough Yards gets ready to open, details have been trickling in about what to expect from the various bars and restaurants opening there. Now we're hearing about the Vinoteca that will launch there with what sounds like a striking design.
The two-storey wine bar, shop and restaurant will feature a ground floor zinc-topped bar, perfect for pulling up
... - Dan's wine bar opens in Dalston
Dalston Junction is becoming quite the oenophiles dream destination with the addition of yet another interesting-sounding wine bar. Joining the likes of Weino Bib and Newcomer Wines is dan's, a self-styled "free-flowing wine bar and shop".
The man behind it is Dan Long from the online natural wine merchant Natty Boy Wines. But the bar is actually named after the Australian booze merchant Dan Murphy's.
Dan's background is
... - The Wong Kar Wine team are heading to London from St Petersburg
We were sad to see the back of Corazon, Soho's popular taco spot which failed to make it out of lockdown. Now there's news of what's going to take its place. It'll be a new restaurant from the team behind St Petersburg's Wong Kar Wine. Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina are the brains behind the operation which opened in St Petersburg back in 2014.
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- Caia is a new wine bar for Golborne Road
Rishabh Vir and Tim Lang, two of the people behind Portobello restaurant Fiend, are getting ready to open something new in the area. This time they're taking over a site that was last a Flat Iron location to open wine bar Caia.
The wine comes from a list by Beth Brickenden (also behind the wine at Fiend) and we're told to expect Old-World wines from producers old and new, alongside
... - Wolfox cafe and wine bar eyes up the old Savoy Taylors Guild on the Strand
It's been home to a tailors since the early 20th century and its distinctive frontage on the Strand is Grade II listed, but next year the historic Savoy Taylors Guild is going to switch from cutting cloth to serving food.
The site's been taken over by Wolfox a coffee and restaurant group with places in Brighton and Leeds. Here at their first London opening they're planning a "high end cafe and wine bar".
If that follows
... - Test Driving the new Carousel wine bar - the residency restaurant's permanent Fitzrovia home
Residency restaurant Carousel has moved from Marylebone to Fitzrovia and added a brand new wine bar in the process. We went down to check it out.
