Wine bar

• Planque in Haggerston will be a 'wine drinkers' clubhouse' with restaurant by Seb Myers

  

  Taking over two railway arches in Haggerston, Planque will have a wine bar, restaurant, members' club and store, with a key focus on natural and low intervention wines

• 28-50's next wine bar will be in Chelsea

  

  The next wine bar from 28-50 (the third in the group) will be on the King's Road. Expect European food alongside a strong selection of European wines - many of them available by the glass. 

• BookBar on Blackstock Road will be a bookshop, winebar and meeting space

  

  The mid-section of Blackstock Road is becoming quite the food and drink hub. There's Patron (currently delivering lovely French dishes across town), Shop Cuvee selling natural wine and cheese, and Grin and Beer it with their craft beer.

  Joining their ranks, whenever hospitality businesses are allowed to reopen, will be BookBar which couldn't be more a product of the times.

  This combo space will be a wine bar, coffee shop,

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• Test Driving Milk Beach - an all day spot in Queen's Park which now has room to flex its kitchen muscles

  

  This all day neighbourhood spot has had a dramatic revamp and, even better, has a huge alfresco space too. We headed west to check it out.

• WC find a new Water Closet to convert into a wine bar in Bloomsbury

  

  After success with their first loo-turned-wine-bar in Clapham, WC are at it again. This time they're renovating a Victorian loo in Bloomsbury to become their second wine bar. 

• The Italians wine bar and bistro heads to Marylebone's Devonshire Street

  

  The team behind Chiswick deli and pizzeria, The Italians, are preparing for a Marylebone opening this winter. The Italians' new home on Devonshire Street will be a wine bar and bistro.

  As with their Chiswick site, the key thing will be the sourcing of top drawer Italian food and drink. The all Italian wine list will change seasonally and there'll be loads available by the glass. They'll be baking focaccia fresh in-house

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• Silver Lining in Hackney will be the UK's first orange wine bar

  

  updated with bar opening info 29/9/20

  During Lockdown, popular restaurant Silver Lining revealed its plans to become the UK's first wine bar focused entirely on orange wine. In its first phase, it opened as a takeaway bottle shop with over 50 varieties of orange wine to choose from.

  Now they're opening as a fully functioning wine bar with an entirely orange wine list and serving up seasonal

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• 163 Upper Street will be a new wine bar and kitchen from Highgate's Wine Cellar team

  The team behind The Wine Cellar on Highgate's Swain's Lane are opening this new wine bar and kitchen, serving up a wide selection of wines and food designed to go with them.

• Noble Rot Soho sees the Noble Rot team take over The Gay Hussar for their second restaurant

  A truly iconic Soho restaurant is revived by the team behind Noble Rot who are promising to be custodians of its history but bring the menu fully into the 21st century.

• The Black Book in Soho sees former members' bar TRADE become a wine bar for all

  

  It used to be known as TRADE, the members' bar for people in the hospitality business, but now it's being replaced by The Black Book, a new wine bar that's open to all of Soho.

  The team running things is still the same - Gearoid Devaney and Xavier Rousset (Blandford Comptoir), and will focus "rare and interesting" wines alongside a brasserie-style menu. So wines by the glass will

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• Silo is coming back to Hackney Wick - but as a wine bar

   

  One of the big new openings of 2019 has announced its reopening - but it's not quite the same as when it left. Silo, Douglas McMaster's no-waste restaurant in Hackney Wick, is going to temporarily return as a wine bar - the Silo X Wine Bar, to be precise. 

  The menu - continuing to be a no-waste affair - has been reconfigured a little and includes: 

  • ‘Siloaf’ & aged butter
  • Koji quavers & dip and a Soy egg with lava
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• The Nook wine bar and deli opens in Islington, taking over from Linden Stores

  

  With people not heading into the centre of London to work, neighbourhood bars and restaurants are getting a lot more attention - and this new opening in our own local area caught our attention. The Nook has taken over the space that used to be Linden Stores, so we popped down to find out more. 

  The owners are Angus and Lale Oztek-Pook. Angus is front of house and Lale the chef. Lale studied at Le

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• Watch House Coffee opens in Somerset House in the former Fernandez & Wells sit

  Taking over the old Fernandez & Well site, Watch House will serve up coffee by day, moving through to small plates, wine and British cocktails by night.

• Vagabond Monument offers self-pour wines and beers in the old Santander bank

  

  Perfectly timed for the end of Dry January, Vagabond Wines are opening a huge new wine bar in the heart of the City. Vagabond Monument is taking over the space occupied by the old Santander Bank.

  The Monument branch is the eighth Vagabond in the group and it's a big one. The general premise is to serve yourself wine - so you load a card with money and then use the enomatic machines to pour your own glass of wines. The new City branch

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• A new 28:50 wine bar has arrived in Covent Garden

  

  9/12/19 - updated with opening details

  A brand new 28:50 has quietly launched in Covent Garden. The wine bar group started off in Fetter Lane and grew to three different sites over the years, but right now only the Marylebone wine bar remains. The bar was previously launched by Xavier Rousset, but he left to open Blandford Comptoir and Comptoir Cafe. 

  The original venture focuses on 30 wines by the glass,

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