Best Wine Bars in Warsaw
All five bars on this list hold a Star Wine List award for 2026. Mielżyński na Burakowskiej in Powazki, Rausz in Ujazdow and Mielżyński na Czerskiej in Sielce keep exceptional programmes. Lalou Wine Bar and Wine First, both in Mirow, keep programmes of natural and conventional wine. Mielżyński na Czerskiej offers over 500 wines to buy or drink on site, with seasonal small plates, and natural wine is poured there. Lalou Wine Bar keeps an extensive collection of French wines, including rare vintages. Mielżyński na Burakowskiej joins the bar to a shop and pours international wines by the glass. Rausz in Ujazdow is a wine shop and bar with a selection and knowledgeable staff.
How this list is chosen: Bars with a deep wine list, a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a natural-wine focus, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Lalou Wine Bar
Lalou Wine Bar sits in Warsaw's Wola district, operating from a contemporary building on Krochmalna Street after a four-year run as a wine shop and tasting room. The pivot to a full wine bar format marks a meaningful shift in how the space engages with its audience, placing it inside a growing tier of specialist wine destinations reshaping Warsaw's drinking culture.
Mielżyński na Burakowskiej
Deep wine list
One of Warsaw's earliest dedicated wine venues, Mielżyński na Burakowskiej sits in the Wola district near Powązki Cemetery, drawing a committed crowd of wine drinkers who treat it as a reference point rather than a casual stop. The Mielżyński name carries weight across Polish wine culture, and the Burakowska address delivers that same depth of list in a neighbourhood that rewards those willing to look beyond the city centre.
Mielżyński na Czerskiej
Deep wine list
The second Warsaw outpost of Robert Mielżyński sits in Mokotów on Czerska Street, running around fifteen tables with sightlines into an open kitchen. Where the original built its name on wine retail and hospitality in Poznań, this address leans into the wine-bar format proper, placing serious bottles alongside food in a neighbourhood that rewards that kind of focused ambition.
Rausz
Deep wine list
Rausz on Wilcza 27 is a Warsaw wine shop and bar built around an unfashionable premise: serious producers at accessible prices. In a city where natural wine bars tend to run expensive or precious, Rausz operates with a low-key register that makes it a genuine neighbourhood fixture rather than a destination performance.
Wine First
Wine First holds a Star Wine List award (2026), placing it among a select tier of Warsaw wine bars that compete on curation and depth rather than atmosphere alone. Located on Żelazna in the Wola district, it operates where an industrial neighbourhood is actively reconsidering its identity, making it a useful indicator of where Warsaw's serious wine scene is currently anchoring itself.
Planning wine bars in Warsaw
- Which bars on this list hold a Star Wine List award?
- All five bars on this list hold a Star Wine List award for 2026 in our guide. They are Mielżyński na Burakowskiej in Powazki, Rausz in Ujazdow, Lalou Wine Bar in Mirow, Wine First in Mirow and Mielżyński na Czerskiej in Sielce.
- Which bars on this list have an exceptional wine programme?
- Mielżyński na Burakowskiej in Powazki, Rausz in Ujazdow and Mielżyński na Czerskiej in Sielce have exceptional wine programmes. Mielżyński na Czerskiej offers over 500 wines to buy or drink on site and pours natural wine with seasonal small plates. Rausz pours natural and conventional wine. Mielżyński na Burakowskiej pours natural and conventional wine by the glass from a bar joined to a shop.
- Which neighbourhoods are the bars on this list in?
- The bars on this list are in Powazki, Ujazdow, Mirow and Sielce. Mielżyński na Burakowskiej is in Powazki. Rausz is in Ujazdow. Lalou Wine Bar and Wine First are in Mirow. Mielżyński na Czerskiej is in Sielce. Mirow is the neighbourhood on this list with two bars.
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