Wine bar

• Test Driving Baudry Greene - a hit of Euro style and substance on a Covent Garden corner

  

  This cosy new Covent Garden spot segues effortlessly from being a place to pop in for breakfast to a post-work hangout. We slinked in for early evening drinks and snacks.

• Mayfair gets a new wine bar, at Farm Shop

  

  Ever since it opened in the weeks before Christmas, we've been waiting to hear when bouji new deli, Farm Shop Mayfair, was going to open its wine bar.

  The good news for Mayfair-based oenophiles (who aren't doing Dry January) is that the day has arrived. The wine bar can be found underneath the shop

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• Bruno is Michael Sager's passion wine bar project in Victoria Park Village

  

  After half an hour chatting to wine bar owner and importer Michael Sager we're already feeling extremely jealous of anyone living in Victoria Park. In addition to the food and drink delights already there, they're about to get what sounds like the perfect neighbourhood wine bar.

  Of course, Sager has a lot of experience in the game - his first place, Sager + Wilde pretty much reinvented the London wine bar

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• Must wine bar heads to Islington's Camden Passage

  

  12/12/23 - updated with the opening date

  Over the past three years, MUST Wine have been growing their wine bar empire, having opened first in St Albans in 2019, followed by Hampstead and Wanstead in quick succession. They're big on wine tastings and serve up over 70 wines by the glass in their bars; you can also ask for their Little Red Book which features what they call the "really, really special wines". Now

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• Bar du Champagne takes over from Avobar in Covent Garden

  

  Should we read something into the fact that Covent Garden visitors' tastes are leaning away from smashed avos and more towards Champagne? That's one conclusion to be drawn from the closure of Avobar which has been replaced by Bar du Champagne from the same owner (although Avobar is apparently moving to a central London location next year). 

  This new bistro and bar is taking up two floors of the

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• Alfi wine pub and restaurant is opening in Spitalfields

  

  Updated 2/12/23 with new opening date

  When is a pub not a pub? When it's a wine pub of course. That's the distinction a new East London business is making when it opens its doors this month. Alfi is being billed as a wine pub and restaurant by experienced hospitality folk Ben Hodges and Alex Lewis and it's taken over the old Leon space inside Spitalfields market.

  The pub will be the first part to

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• Wine bar Finch heads to Brixton Village, specialising in English Wines

  

  Updated 27/10/23 with opening date and launch offer

  The people of Brixton Village have a new reason to celebrate, they’re about to get a brand-new wine bar, and one that champions English wines, no less.

  It’s called Finch and while it will feature a curated selection of world wines, they’ll be focusing on small and experimental winemakers, whether you fancy a

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• Bar Levan wine bar takes over from Larry's in Peckham

  

  Larry's may be gone, along with chef Nicholas Balfe who is concentrating on his restaurant Holm in Somerset, but Bar Levan is rising in its place. That's coming from Levan co-founders Mark Gurney and Matt Bushnell and will be their new Peckham wine bar. 

  Taking over the old Larry's spot, right next to Levan, they say they're inspired by Parisian bars like Aux Deux Amis and Septime La

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• Must & Lees head to Warren Street for their second wine bar and shop

  

  Updated 13/9/23 with opening date

  Two years after opening their wine shop and tasting room in Islington, Must & Lees are expanding. Their second place will open this autumn on Warren Street, taking over Miel Bakery's old site.

  Owner Chris and his team are aiming to jump straight into Fitzrovia community life, joining the likes of Miel, Honey & Co and Bang Bang on the street. So while their

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• Ken's in Exmouth Market is the next wine bar from the people behind Dan's

   

  The people behind Dan's wine bar in Dalston are getting ready to open something new in Exmouth Market. This time, rather handily in keeping with the current Barbie zeitgeist, the new place happens to be called Ken's. 

• Little Cellars in Camberwell is the new wine bar from the Peckham Cellars team

  

  24/8/23 - updated with the opening date and menu details.

  Michelin-rated Peckham wine bar, Peckham Cellars, is expanding. The team behind it - Helen Hall, Luke West-Whylie and Ben McVeigh - have set their sites on a space in nearby Camberwell where they'll be opening a second wine bar, Little Cellars.

  If you've already been to the Peckham original, you'll find things much the same at the new

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• Clapton's 107 wine bar signs up ex St John chef Elliot Hashtroudi for five month residency

  

  All eyes have been on the wine bar formerly known as P Franco to see who's taking over cheffing duties now that the bar is properly up and running again. This week we got the answer; they've signed up former St John sous chef Elliott Hashtroudi who'll be cooking up a storm here for the rest of the year.

  Asked what his menu will consist of Elliot said it would be "influenced from time at St. JOHN, but it’s an

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• P Franco is reopening as 107 Wine Bar & Shop

  

  Back in March, along with the closure of sibling businesses Bright and Noble Fine Liquor, the super popular Clapton wine bar P Franco closed its doors for what, we all thought, was for good.

  But the team behind the bar weren't going down without a fight and the bar's manager William Gee started a

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• The best wine bars in London

  

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

• Amethyst in Mayfair is opening Vinum wine bar underneath its restaurant

  

  Back when we first visited Carlo Scotto's restaurant Amethyst, we spotted that there was quite a lovely downstairs bar space. But the exacting chef wanted to get his restaurant operating perfectly before he moved on to working out what to do with that bar.

  Now he's about to open

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