12 wine bar places in London we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in London | Wine Bar across every city.
London's wine-bar boom has been driven by low-intervention bottles and railway-arch rooms that treat the kitchen as seriously as the list. Hackney is the dense centre of it, with P. Franco, Sager + Wilde and Behind clustered across the borough, while Noble Rot in Bloomsbury and 40 Maltby Street in Bermondsey carry the format into other corners of the city.
Behind ★ 4.2
hackney · 20 Sidworth Street, London E8 3SD
Andy Beynon's one-Michelin-starred fish counter on the edge of London Fields in Hackney London, opened October 2020, runs an 18-seat kitchen table.
P. Franco ★ 4.8
hackney · 107 Lower Clapton Road, London E5 0NP
Liam Kelleher's natural-wine room on Lower Clapton Road in Hackney London, opened 2014, runs a wall-of-wine shop by day and an evening counter.
Sager + Wilde ★ 4.6
hackney · 193 Hackney Road, London E2 8JL
Michael Sager and Charlotte Wilde's bar on Hackney Road in east London, opened 2013, ran the bridge between London's old wine-bar scene and the natural-wine.
Forza Wine ★ 4.4
peckham · 133a Rye Lane, London SE15 4BQ
Bash Redford's wine bar atop the Peckham multistorey carpark in south London, opened 2018, runs Italian-leaning natural wines and small plates with a rooftop.
Noble Rot Bloomsbury ★ 4.7
fitzrovia · 51 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1N 3NB
Daniel Keeling and Mark Andrew's wine-magazine-meets-bistro on Lamb's Conduit Street in Bloomsbury London, opened 2015, runs serious old-world wines.
Quality Wines ★ 4.3
clerkenwell · 88-94 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3EA
Will Lander's wine shop and bar next to Quality Chop House on Farringdon Road in Clerkenwell London, opened 2019, runs a focused natural-leaning Continental.
Diogenes the Dog ★ 4.2
kennington · 96 Brixton Road, London SW9 6BE
Sunny Hodge's neighbourhood wine bar on Brixton Road in Kennington London, opened 2017, runs a serious natural-wine list and Mediterranean snacks at counter.
Top Cuvee ★ 4.0
islington · 177-179 Blackstock Road, London N5 2LL
Mike Garrett and Bryan Connell's natural-wine bar on Blackstock Road in Highbury London, opened 2019, runs a small-plates kitchen and a wine club delivery.
40 Maltby Street (wine) ★ 4.5
borough-bermondsey · 40 Maltby Street, London SE1 3PA
Gergovie Wines's importer-run wine bar and kitchen inside a Maltby Street railway arch in Bermondsey London, opened 2010, the home address of London.
Brilliant Corners ★ 4.1
Dalston · 470 Kingsland Road, London E8 4AE
Amit and Aneesh Patel's vinyl-and-natural-wine bar on Kingsland Road in Dalston London, opened 2013, runs a casual Japanese kitchen, Klipschorn speakers.
Quality Wines ★ 4.2
clerkenwell · 88-94 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3EA
Will Lander's wine shop and bar next to Quality Chop House on Farringdon Road in Clerkenwell London, opened 2019, the city's smartest neighborhood wine-shop.
40 Maltby Street ★ 4.5
borough-bermondsey · 40 Maltby Street, London SE1 3PA
Gergovie Wines's importer-run wine bar and kitchen inside a Maltby Street railway arch in Bermondsey London, opened 2010, the home address of London chef.