Wine bar

  • Test Driving Bruno - a jewel of a wine bar in Victoria Park Village

    bruno wine bar victoria park london review

    Michael Sager's new Victoria Park wine bar, Bruno, is a really personal project. We popped over to take a look.

  • Lower Wine Bar opens near Waterloo Station

    Lower Wine Bar opens near Waterloo Station

    If the seemingly constant threat of train strikes has you on edge, there is a heartening escape route near Waterloo Station and it’s likely to have oenophiles particularly excited. Lower is a wine bar and cellar shop that opened in a very low-key fashion in February, giving its three local owners time to hone the concept of their first project together. You may have already spotted the steamed-up windows,

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  • Test Driving Alfi - wine pub, restaurant and all round vibey space in Spitalfields

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    Spitalfields Market just got a hot new place to try out with both a wine bar and restaurant vying for attention. We headed east to take a look at Alfi.

  • Test Driving the Farm Shop wine bar - a hidden oasis in Mayfair that's surprisingly good value

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    Mayfair deli Farm Shop has an excellent, old-school wine bar hidden underneath it. We went down to try the food and wine out.  

  • These Days Aperitivo Bar launches its kitchen with an ex Culpeper chef in charge

    These Day's Aperitivo bar launches its kitchen with an ex Culpeper chef in charge

    Last year, These Days opened their Aperitivo Bar on the Bermondsey Beer Mile and at the time of opening the food was mainly just snacks - bread, cheese and charcuterie. That's about to change as they get ready to open their kitchen, bringing a full menu to the

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  • Yuki Bar sees ex-Noma sommelier opening in London Fields

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    This weekend a new East London restaurant/wine bar opened its doors officially, and there are a number of reasons why you should have Yuki Bar on your radar.

    The key point of interest is the man behind it, Yukiyasu Kaneko. Kaneko was formerly the sommelier at Noma and also P Franco before working with former Koya chef Junya Yamasaki at Yess Aquatic in LA. This will be his first solo project. It's being billed as a small

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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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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  • Charlotte Street is getting an Alsatian wine bar and restaurant called July

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    Opening in the spring but confusingly named after a summer month, July is going to be an Alsatian-inspired restaurant and wine bar hitting up Charlotte Street. And while this is the first hospitality venture for the pair behind it, they've brought in a team that shows they know what they're doing.

    French-Swiss food writer Solynka Dumas and Julian Oschmann are the couple bringing July to London. They've

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  • Alfi wine pub and restaurant is opening in Spitalfields

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    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

    New 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

    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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