The Best Wine Bars in Los Angeles

Wine bar searches in Los Angeles can start with these 13 venues, including Bar Covell, Buvons and Stir Crazy. They are listed by Star Wine List or pour from deep wine lists in the En Primeur Club guide. Many receive recognition from Star Wine List. We choose venues by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards.

Read the entries in alphabetical order. Each shows the venue's town or city, a short description and awards from independent sources, with a link to its full guide page.

How this list is chosen: Every bar here is listed by Star Wine List or pours from a deep wine list. En Primeur Club chooses among them by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards. Entries appear in alphabetical order.

Augustine Wine Bar
Los Angeles, United States
A wine bar on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, Augustine occupies a stretch of the San Fernando Valley where neighborhood drinking culture has grown considerably more serious over the past decade. The room leans toward low-light intimacy, and the format favors wine over cocktails without abandoning the latter entirely. Worth knowing for the Valley's evolving bar scene.
Bar Bandini
Los Angeles, United States
Bar Bandini occupies a low-key stretch of Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park, where the ritual of the drink matters as much as the drink itself. It sits within a tier of LA bars where format and pacing define the experience more than spectacle. For an evening built around considered cocktails and unhurried conversation, it holds its own against the city's most deliberate drinking rooms.
Bar Clara
Los Angeles, United States
Bar Clara occupies a ground-floor address on South Olive Street in downtown Los Angeles, operating within the city's quieter, more technically focused cocktail tier. The bar draws regulars who favour a lower-key format over the high-concept theatrics that defined the previous decade, with a drinks programme rooted in careful preparation and a sense of neighbourhood permanence.
Bar Covell
Los Angeles, United States
Bar Covell has anchored the Los Feliz wine bar scene for nearly fifteen years, operating on a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard that most LA bar-goers have historically overlooked. The format is deliberately low-key: no cocktail theatrics, no reservations pageantry, just a considered list of natural and European wines in a room that rewards slowing down. It remains one of the neighbourhood's most consistent reference points for the category.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Buvons
Los Angeles, United States
Buvons sits on Loma Avenue in Long Beach, operating at a remove from the main current of LA's bar scene — which, for the right visitor, is precisely the point. The drive from central LA runs anywhere from 30 minutes to well over an hour depending on traffic, and the neighbourhood context shapes the experience before you even walk in. It belongs to a category of destination bars that reward the effort of getting there.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Cosette Wine Bar
Los Angeles, United States
A plant-filled hideaway perched above Rolling Greens in Studio City—think classic old-world + cool-climate California pours with farmer’s-market bites. Swing by for golden-hour glasses, Bottle Wednesdays, or Pasta Thursdays and bask in this greenhouse.
El Prado
Los Angeles, United States
On Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park, El Prado sits at an address that puts it squarely in one of Los Angeles's most contested drinking corridors. The bar draws on a format that has gained traction across American cities: classical technique applied to local and Latin American ingredients, executed at a counter-level scale where the craft is visible and the pace is deliberate.
Lily’s Bar
Los Angeles, United States
On Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, Lily's Bar earned a Star Wine List recognition in 2026, placing it among a small tier of Los Angeles bars where the wine program carries as much weight as the spirits list. The address puts it in the thick of Hollywood's mid-century bar corridor, a stretch that rewards those who plan ahead.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
lolo wine bar
Los Angeles, United States
Lolo Wine Bar sits on Sunset Boulevard in Los Feliz, where the corridor between Silver Lake and Hollywood has quietly become one of Los Angeles's more interesting stretches for low-key drinking. The format favors wine over spectacle, placing it in a neighbourhood tier defined more by conversation than by concept. Practical details including booking and hours are best confirmed directly with the venue.
Sam’s Place
Los Angeles, United States
A laid-back natural wine bar in Highland Park that keeps things simple: no website, no socials, just good wine and a great vibe. It’s got a cozy, unpolished feel with booths to settle into and a patio that’s well-suited for birthdays or group hangs. Feels like your cool friend’s spot that everyone’s quietly obsessed with.
Stir Crazy
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Ranked #86 on the LA Times 2024 list of 101 Best Restaurants, Stir Crazy occupies a 500-square-foot room on Melrose Avenue where a coffeehouse stood for roughly three decades. The Euro-Californian menu is deliberately unhurried, and the wine program punches well above the room's modest footprint. It is the kind of neighbourhood restaurant Los Angeles rarely produces with this much intention.
Also recognized by Esquire, LA Times, Star Wine List
Tabula Rasa
Los Angeles, United States
Tabula Rasa occupies a dimly lit space on Hollywood Boulevard where Los Feliz meets East Hollywood, carving out a distinct position in the Los Angeles wine scene through programming that sets it apart from the neighbourhood's bar circuit. The room commits to atmosphere over spectacle, and the events calendar gives regulars more reasons to return than a static drinks list alone could provide.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Tabula Rasa Bar
Los Angeles, United States
Tabula Rasa Bar is the kind of neighborhood spot where the wine flows, the music’s always good, and the vibe is effortlessly cool. With a strong focus on natural wines, craft beers, and a rotating vinyl soundtrack, it’s well-suited for low-key nights that turn into lingering conversations. Come for a drink, stay because it feels like your new favorite hangout.

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