Our Favourite London Wine Bars

The best wine bars in London (and just beyond) that are worth going out of your way for.

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There's a particular kind of late spring afternoon, where the light finally does something warm and golden, the air is sizzling with energy, and sitting inside working suddenly feels like a crime. This is the universal call to leave work early, grab a friend or lover, and find somewhere to sit with a cold glass of something excellent. Ideally with some small plates alongside it, and ideally somewhere that makes a Tuesday feel like an occasion.

Or sometimes you just want a great bottle to take home. To put on ice while you assemble a cheeseboard, open the windows, and let the evening arrive at its own pace.

London does both of these things extraordinarily well right now. The wine bar scene has changed completely in the last decade - there are neighbourhood spots across the city stocking bottles you haven't seen before, with lists that move through natural, biodynamic and low-intervention producers with real knowledge and conviction. Some have kitchens. Some are just a bar and a fridge and a brilliant selection. Some are definitly worth getting on a train for.

We've been collecting our favourites for a while. Resulting in this ever-growing list - 21 places, spread across the city and one gloriously beyond it. Old reliables and exciting new openings. We'll keep adding to it.

CENTRAL LONDON & THE WEST END

Marjorie's

Foubert's Place, Soho  ·  marjorieslondon.co.uk  ·  @marjories.london

Named after founder Michael Searle's late grandmother - a committed Francophile, by all accounts with excellent taste - Marjorie's arrived in Soho in 2025 and immediately felt like it had always been there. Parisian in atmosphere, thoughtful in every detail, with a wine list that runs exclusively French: small-batch producers alongside classic varietals, chosen with a clear point of view.

The food is modern French rather than classic bistro - chef Giacomo Peretti (ex-Le Gavroche) gives familiar dishes a contemporary edge that works beautifully with the wine. It's the kind of place you take someone for a long lunch and emerge from hours later slightly surprised by how much time has passed. Off Carnaby Street but a world away from it.

Noble Rot

Bloomsbury, Soho & Mayfair  ·  noblerot.co.uk  ·  @noblerotbar

If there's a pilgrimage site for wine lovers in London, this is it. Noble Rot started as a wine magazine - the kind with actual opinions and personality - and became three of the city's best wine bars and restaurants almost by accident, or at least by the kind of logic that says: if you love this thing, you should make a room for other people who love it too.

All three sites have that feeling. Atmospheric townhouse rooms, Anglo-French food done with real care, and a wine list that has won more awards than we have space to list. The Bloomsbury original on Lamb's Conduit Street is the one to start with - a Michelin-listed restaurant that never makes you feel like it is one. Order something you haven't had before. The team will point you in the right direction.

The 10 Cases

Endell Street, Covent Garden  ·  10cases.co.uk  ·  @10cases

The concept here is great: the list changes constantly because they only ever stock ten cases of any given wine. When it's gone, it's gone. The result is a list that forces you to be curious - and a room full of people who are genuinely interested in what's in their glass.

The Cave à Vin next door is walk-ins only, which we appreciate. Grab a seat, ask what's good, enjoy the pour. The 10 Cases describes its list as the best value in London and it's not an idle boast. An unpretentious classic that's been excellent for years.

DakaDaka

Heddon Street, Mayfair  ·  @dakadaka.london  ·  Opened January 2026

Opened in January 2026 on Heddon Street - London's small but mighty restaurant row in Mayfair - DakaDaka brings modern Georgian cooking to the fire. Wood-fired breads, khinkali dumplings filled with broth, charcoal-grilled skewers, slow-cooked stews built around spice combinations that feel genuinely new. The natural wine list has been curated by Honey Spencer, one of the most exciting sommeliers working in London right now, with a particular focus on Georgian and natural producers.

It's been one of the most talked-about openings of early 2026, and deservedly so. Georgia has one of the world's oldest winemaking traditions - skin-contact amber wines made in clay qvevri buried underground - and the list here gives you a serious education in what that looks like. Go hungry.

Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels

Neal's Yard, Covent Garden  ·  compagniewinebar.com/london

Tucked into Neal's Yard - the cobbled courtyard just off Seven Dials - Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels brings a slice of Left Bank Paris to WC2. From the founders of the Experimental Cocktail Club, this one is all about wine: an extraordinary selection by the glass, served in beautiful glassware, with space indoors and outside that feels unfussily elegant.

The small plates are good. The wine list is better. Plan your evening well - because The Barbary is just steps away on the same courtyard and it would be a shame not to follow a glass of wine - or two - with dinner there. Counter seats, live fire, North African flavours that will rearrange how you think about dinner. Find them at @barbarylondon and thebarbary.co.uk - book separately.

WEST LONDON

Sova

Blenheim Crescent, Notting Hill  ·  sova.london  ·  @sova.london  ·  Opened April 2026

Brand new as of April 2026 and already generating the kind of buzz that the best places generate before the reviews arrive. Sova is a wine and vinyl bar in Notting Hill focused entirely on Eastern and Central European producers - Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Slovenia - with a particular love for skin-contact and low-intervention bottles. The wine list has been put together by sommelier Cristian Vega (formerly of Wilton's) and the food comes from Moldovan chef Denis Calmis, whose cooking has an Eastern European warmth that pairs beautifully with everything in the glass.

The vinyl angle isn't a gimmick - the music is part of the atmosphere and it works. A genuinely exciting new addition to the neighbourhood, and to London's wine bar scene.

Sol's

Leinster Terrace, Bayswater  ·  sols.london  ·  @solslondon

Sol's opened quietly in 2024 and helped put Bayswater back on the map as somewhere worth going for dinner. It's an Iberian-inspired wine bar and deli - walk-ins only, which gives it a neighbourhood ease - with a list that tilts towards Spain and Portugal and a selection of bottles to take home that's worth a detour on its own.

Small, personal, unpretentious and very good. The kind of place you wish existed at the end of your own street. Arrive early and try to snag one of those precious seats lining the front.

EAST LONDON

Sager + Wilde

Hackney Road  ·  sagerandwilde.com

When Sager + Wilde opened on Hackney Road in 2013, it changed something. It proved, quietly and without making a fuss about it, that serious wine didn't need a white tablecloth or a Michelin star. It just needed people who cared, a good room, and the willingness to let the list speak for itself.

Thirteen years on, it remains one of the best wine bars in London. The east London natural wine scene that now feels like a given? Sager + Wilde came first. Their second site - Paradise Row in Bethnal Green - is equally good. Go to both.

Hector's

Ardleigh Road, De Beauvoir Town  ·  hectorslondon.co.uk  ·  @hectorslondon

Named after owner Jimmy's grandfather, Hector's is a neighbourhood bottle shop and wine bar in De Beauvoir that runs entirely on its own terms. No reservations (groups of six max), open Wednesday to Sunday only, with a list of European wines chosen with the kind of personal knowledge you only get from people who actually love the subject.

It's small, it's warm, and it's exactly the kind of place you keep to yourself for as long as possible before eventually telling everyone. They stock bottles to take home too - always a good sign.

Goodbye Horses

Halliford Street, De Beauvoir Town  ·  goodbyehorses.london  ·  @goodbyehorsesldn

Also in De Beauvoir - the neighbourhood is slowly becoming one of the best places in London for a glass of wine - Goodbye Horses is intimate, carefully put together, and exactly what a neighbourhood wine bar should be. Walk-ins always welcome, bookings available for up to eight.

The team have just opened a sister venue - Stable Wines on Essex Road, launched December 2025 - which is already getting very good word of mouth. But the original has a particular quality to it. The kind of room that feels genuinely like someone's own - very on-trend - dining room, in the best possible way.

107 Wine Shop & Bar

Lower Clapton Road, E5  ·  107wine.co.uk  ·  @107_e5

Formerly the legendary P Franco - one of east London's most quietly influential natural wine spots - 107 reopened in 2023 with the same spirit and a fresh identity. A long communal table, resident chefs turning out whatever looks good that day, and a wine list that moves through small producers with real curiosity and care. The kind of place where every visit feels slightly different, because the list and the kitchen both keep moving.

Unpretentious, warm, and very good. Lower Clapton doesn't always get the attention it deserves as a food destination, but 107 is as good a reason as any to make the journey.

NORTH LONDON

Godet

Essex Road, Islington  ·  godetlondon.com  ·  @godetlondon

From Sylvain Bertozzi - the French proprietor behind Hackney's well-loved Binch wine bar - Godet arrived on Essex Road and immediately reframed what a pub could be. It's wine-focused, music-obsessed, and genuinely lively in a way that feels earned rather than engineered. The food menu is fun. The wine list is very good. The atmosphere is excellent.

The kind of place you go for one glass at 6pm and leave at midnight having made three new friends - one of them a dog.

Top Cuvée

Mountgrove Road, Highbury  ·  topcuvee.com  ·  @topcuvee

A collaboration between sommelier Brodie Meah (Dinner by Heston, Leroy) and the award-winning Three Sheets cocktail team, Top Cuvée has been one of Highbury's great neighbourhood pleasures since 2019. Small plates influenced by Parisian wine bars, a natural wine list where the by-the-glass selection rotates daily, and a cosiness that makes it feel like a real local even on your first visit.

The kind of place that gets better every time you go, because the list keeps moving and the kitchen keeps finding new things to do.

Provisions

Holloway Road  ·  provisionslondon.co.uk  ·  @provisionsldn

Part wine bar, part deli, part importer - Provisions on Holloway Road has been doing things properly since 2015. The room has that quality of good wine bars everywhere: dim lighting, bottles lining the walls, the sense that the person who chose everything in the room actually cared. Topa, a Basque pintxo bar that lives within Provisions, adds a food offer that goes well beyond what most wine bars attempt.

They have a second site on Hackney Road. Both are excellent.

SOUTH LONDON & BOROUGH

Kolae

Borough Market, Southwark  ·  kolae.com  ·  @kolae_london

From the team behind Som Saa - one of east London's most loved Thai restaurants - Kolae is set in an old coach house in the heart of Borough Market and is unlike anything else in London. The menu draws on Thailand's southern provinces, with a flavour profile that's fiercer and more complex than you might expect: rich coconut curries, ferociously good salads, open-fire grilling that fills the room with smoke and spice.

The drinks list is inventive, and has an impressive selection of wines by the glass - all chosen to pair well with Thai food. Go early and stop at Neal's Yard Dairy next door first - pick up some cheese and Breakin'Bread for later.

Ploussard

Battersea Rise  ·  ploussardlondon.co.uk  ·  @ploussardlondon

Our local, and one we're quietly possessive about. Named after the ancient Jura grape variety (also known as Poulsard), Ploussard is a small restaurant with a very big wine list - exclusively low intervention, biodynamic and natural, sourced with clear conviction. The food is Parisian-influenced small plates done with seasonal care; the atmosphere is exactly right. Even the leftovers are considered: wine that isn't finished gets turned into vinegar for the kitchen.

We've had some of the best evenings of the last few years at the tables on Battersea Rise. It's the kind of place that makes you feel lucky to live near it.

Bar Levan

Rye Lane area, Peckham  ·  barlevan.co.uk  ·  @bar_levan

Sibling to the excellent Levan restaurant next door, Bar Levan has become one of the best reasons to make the journey south to Peckham - and Peckham has plenty of good reasons already. Dark-red decor, a curated playlist with regular DJs, and a wine list that runs through organic and biodynamic producers from across Europe with real enthusiasm and care.

The small plates have personality - miso devilled eggs, rotating terrines, a croque monsieur that earns its place on the menu. The vibe is exactly right for a long Friday evening when you want somewhere that feels alive without feeling like it's trying too hard.

40 Maltby Street

Maltby Street, Bermondsey  ·  40maltbystreet.com  ·  @40maltbystreet

A genuinely special place. Set in the railway arches of Bermondsey - in the warehouse of Gergovie Wines, one of the city's finest importers - 40 Maltby Street operates on its own quiet terms. No reservations. Open Wednesday to Saturday only. Low-intervention wines poured without ceremony alongside modern European small plates that are, consistently, some of the best cooking in south London.

It's been here for years and shows no signs of fading. The kind of place that reminds you why London's food scene is worth paying attention to.

Bermondsey Corner

Bermondsey Street  ·  bermondseycorner.co.uk  ·  @bermondseycorner

An independent family venture on Bermondsey Street that is simultaneously a cafe, a bottle shop, a wine bar and a grocer - and pulls all of it off with a warmth and ease that bigger places rarely manage. The wine selection runs through natural and minimal-intervention producers; the food is considered and seasonal; the atmosphere is exactly what the word 'neighbourhood' is supposed to mean.

Worth combining with 40 Maltby Street and the White Cube for a proper Bermondsey afternoon. Start at the Corner, see what's on at the White Cube, and end under the arches.

Dynamic Vines

Lordship Lane, East Dulwich  ·  dynamicvines.com  ·  @dynamic_vines

Founded in 2005 by sommelier Frederic Grappe, Dynamic Vines has long been one of the UK's most respected importers of organic and biodynamic wine. The East Dulwich shop and bar - on Lordship Lane, next to Mons Cheesemonger and Moxon's Fishmonger - opened in late 2024 and is exactly what you want from a wine bar that knows its producers intimately.

Every bottle is priced the same as on their website. No corkage. No service charge. You can drink it there with a cheese board and vinyls playing, or take it home. It's almost unreasonably good value for what's in the glass. Go on a Saturday, browse the neighbours, and plan an excellent evening.

Ancestrel

Stanstead Road, Forest Hill  ·  ancestrel.com  ·  @ancestrelwines

One of south-east London's best-kept secrets, and increasingly not a secret at all. Ancestrel is a natural wine importer and wholesaler that opened a bar and bottle shop in Forest Hill, and the neighbourhood has never looked back. The list is serious - they work directly with small producers across Europe and know their bottles inside out - but the atmosphere is anything but. Friendly, relaxed, and exactly the kind of place you end up staying longer than planned.

Open Thursday to Sunday only, walk-ins always welcome. Groups of six or more are asked to call ahead. If you're in south-east London and haven't been yet, go this weekend.

WORTH THE JOURNEY BEYOND LONDON

The Mount Vineyard

Sevenoaks, Kent  ·  themountvineyard.co.uk  ·  @themountvineyardkent

For those willing to venture beyond the postcode - and on a warm May day you really should consider it - The Mount is a 28-acre estate in Sevenoaks with 10 acres of vines, producing award-winning still and sparkling English wines that have been turning heads since their first harvests. Kent Wine of the Year 2017, and still going strong.

The restaurant is open Wednesday to Sunday, serving stone-baked pizzas and small plates alongside their own bottles and a fully stocked bar. There are direct train links from London Bridge, which makes the whole thing feel more like a day out than an expedition. Go in May when the vines are just starting. Eat outside. Drink something made from the hillside you're looking at. It's one of those afternoons.

A NOTE ON TAKING A BOTTLE HOME

Several of the places on this list - Dynamic Vines, Hector's, Sol's, Provisions, Bermondsey Corner - are as much bottle shops as they are bars. Buy something to drink there, and then buy something to take home. Best of both worlds.

The cheeseboard is half the joy of a good bottle. A few crackers, some excellent cheese, whatever's in the fridge that looks good alongside it - that's the evening sorted. And if you happen to need crispbread for that board, well. We might know somewhere.

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