Wine bar

• Test Driving The Dreamery by Goodbye Horses, a spectacular looking ice-cream/wine bar in Islington

  

  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.  

• Luna wine bar sees the Legare team expanding their empire in Shad Thames

  

  Sipping a glass of rosé on a sun-soaked terrace with glorious views over Tower Bridge may feel like a pipe dream when London's temperature is currently in single figures but that's the goal when new wine bar Luna opens on Shad Thames next year. The wine bar is the latest opening from the same team behind nearby Legare, restaurateur Jay Patel and chef Matt Beardmore.

  The bar sounds like it'll be a cosy space, with

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• Where to drink Beaujolais Nouveau in London this year

  

  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. 

• Dynamic Vines picks East Dulwich for its wine shop and bar

  

  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

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• Basket Press Wines kick off a wine residency at Islington's Quince Bakery

  

  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

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• This winter you can stroll across London on a mulled wine trail

  

  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

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• Test Driving Godet - a wine bar/pub that could be the future of London's boozers

  

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

• The Wee Sister is chef Anna Haugh's new wine bar in Chelsea

  

  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

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• Godet wine-focused pub comes to Islington from the Binch team

  

  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.  

• New Brixton wine bar Vining Street Wine Club promises 'wine without the bullshit'

  

  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

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• Boxcar Bread & Wine is a new bakery by day, wine bar at night for Connaught Village

  

  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

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• New Spitalfields bar 68 & Shanghai pairs wine and katsu sandos

  

  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

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• The Vinery is Heathrow's new wine bar with its own sommelier app

  

  Air travel is almost always a stressful experience, so we're heartened to hear about the arrival of a new wine bar at Heathrow that'll make any delay there a lot more bearable.

  The Vinery has just opened in Terminal 2 and, as the name suggests, it's all about the wine. The list here will celebrate English wine, although it will also feature wine from around the world, and there are special wine-tasting events planned

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• Quill wine bar to open in Borough Yards from the Plume and Finch team

  

  Borough Market and the London Bridge area has had a lot of interesting openings this year, from Oma to ...

• The best wine bars in East London

  

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