The Best Wine Bars in New York City

This list covers 25 wine bars in New York City, including 25 Hours, Seed Library and Stars. Each is listed by Star Wine List or pours from a deep wine list in the En Primeur Club guide. Several are in West Village or East Village. We choose venues by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards.

Use the alphabetical order to find entries by name. 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.

25 Hours
New York City, United States
25 Hours is a wine-focused bar in Long Island City, Queens, recognized by Star Wine List in 2026. Sitting across the East River from Manhattan, it occupies a position in a borough that has steadily built its own drinking culture separate from the well-documented bar scenes of the Lower East Side or the West Village. For wine drinkers looking beyond the island, it represents a deliberate detour worth making.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Bar Florine
New York City, United States
A wine-focused bar on East 92nd Street recognized by Star Wine List in 2026, Bar Florine sits at the quieter end of the Upper East Side's drinking scene — far from the downtown cocktail circuit but drawing a crowd that knows what it wants. The Star Wine List recognition signals a program with depth and editorial credibility in a neighborhood not typically associated with serious wine bars.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Bar Maeda
New York City, United States
Bar Maeda on Charlton Street brings a Tokyo-style cocktail sensibility to the western edge of SoHo, where Hudson Square's residential quiet makes it feel more like a neighbourhood fixture than a destination bar. The program draws on Japanese bartending discipline — precision, restraint, hospitality — in a city where that approach has moved from novelty to a recognised point of craft. A reliable address for serious cocktails without the theatre.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Chin Up
New York City, United States
On Chrystie Street in the Lower East Side, Chin Up occupies a clear niche in New York's gin-focused bar scene, where a specific spirits program anchors the entire drinks list. The bar draws visitors looking for depth over breadth, with a menu built around botanical clarity and a food program calibrated to complement rather than compete with the drinks.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
City Winery New York City
New York City, United States
City Winery New York City occupies a sprawling Hudson Yards-adjacent address at 25 11th Avenue, combining a working urban winery, live music venue, and full-service restaurant under one roof. It sits in a category of its own among Manhattan entertainment concepts — part production facility, part concert hall, part wine bar — drawing both wine-curious locals and touring music acts seeking an intimate performance space.
Dandelion
New York City, United States
Dandelion is a wine bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, recognised by Star Wine List 2026, that operates as a genuine neighbourhood anchor in one of Manhattan's most storied stretches. Its West Village positioning places it among a small tier of bars where the list drives loyalty rather than foot traffic, and where regulars return not for the occasion but for the routine.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Folk
New York City, United States
Folk at 689 6th Avenue in Park Slope brings Indian-influenced cocktails to a Brooklyn bar scene better known for natural wine lists and amaro programs. For the borough's more attentive drinkers, it represents a distinct counterpoint to the neighbourhood's dominant European-leaning drink culture.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Golden Ratio
New York City, United States
Golden Ratio, on Greene Avenue in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill, has earned a Star Wine List recognition for 2026 on the strength of a sustainability-forward drinks program and one of New York's more serious nonalcoholic menus. The bar sits in a Brooklyn cohort that prizes ingredient transparency over spectacle, making it a useful reference point for the city's current direction in considered drinking.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Have & Meyer
New York City, United States
Have & Meyer occupies a corner of Williamsburg's Havemeyer Street that sits closer to the neighborhood's pre-gentrification grain than its post-2010 cocktail bar wave. The address alone signals something about positioning: this is Brooklyn drinking culture at a remove from Manhattan's technical showmanship, with sourcing and place as the editorial spine of the program.
June
New York City, United States
June Wine Bar has anchored Carroll Gardens' natural wine scene since its early days as a neighborhood-first bottle shop with pours. Located at 231 Court St in Brooklyn, it operates in a tier of low-intervention wine bars where the floor staff's knowledge carries as much weight as the list itself. A recent addition to the team has given the program fresh momentum.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Kaia Wine Bar
New York City, United States
South African wines occupy a rare position on New York City wine lists — and Kaia Wine Bar on the Upper East Side has spent years correcting that absence. Founded by South African native Suzaan Hauptfleisch, the bar at 1446 1st Ave gives Cape winemaking traditions a dedicated platform in a city that has historically overlooked them, drawing a loyal crowd that returns for the depth of the list rather than novelty.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Kees
New York City, United States
Positioned on one of Greenwich Village's most storied blocks, Kees at 1 Cornelia Street brings a focused approach to modern cocktail classics alongside snacks, earning Star Wine List recognition in 2026.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Kindred
New York City, United States
Kindred occupies a third-floor address on West 24th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron district, placing it among a tier of New York cocktail rooms where considered programming and a deliberate remove from street-level noise define the experience. The venue sits within a broader shift in the city's bar scene toward spaces that reward intention over impulse, and where the room itself is part of the proposition.
La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels Centre St
New York City, United States
La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels on Centre Street has held Star Wine List recognition every year from 2023 through 2026, placing it among New York City's most consistently credentialed wine bars. The SoHo address situates it within a neighbourhood that has moved steadily upmarket, and the French-rooted concept brings a European idiom of natural and artisanal wine to a city that has made room for exactly that approach.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
La Compagnie Wine Bar Flatiron
New York City, United States
La Compagnie Wine Bar, on West 24th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron district, earned Star Wine List recognition in 2026, placing it among a selective tier of New York wine bars where curation and cellar depth take precedence over cocktail programming. The address puts it a short walk from Madison Square Park, in a neighbourhood that rewards those who look past the obvious.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Much Obliged
New York City, United States
Much Obliged on Avenue B brings a thoughtful wine-forward drinking program to Alphabet City, earning Star Wine List recognition in 2026 alongside a small plates menu that extends the case for serious drinking east of First Avenue. The format suits both a deliberate evening at the bar and a quicker early stop, positioning it as one of the more considered options in a Lower East Side-adjacent neighbourhood that rewards exploration.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Oddball
New York City, United States
On Avenue B in the East Village, Oddball operates at the intersection of retro-futurist cocktail culture and unexpected flavor pairing — a bar that earned Star Wine List recognition in 2026 by applying serious ingredient logic to formats that feel anything but conventional. The address puts it squarely in a neighborhood with long institutional memory for counter-culture drinking.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Parcelle Chinatown
New York City, United States
Parcelle Chinatown at 135 Division Street occupies a corner of Lower Manhattan where wine bar culture and neighbourhood life intersect. Part of the Parcelle family, it functions as a local gathering point rather than a destination-driven showroom — a place for deliberate pours in a neighbourhood that rewards those paying attention. The list skews natural and European, with pricing that invites return visits rather than single-occasion splurging.
Seed Library
New York City, United States
Seed Library, on East 30th Street in Midtown Manhattan, operates in the precise tier where ingredient provenance shapes the cocktail program as seriously as technique. Recognised by Star Wine List in 2026, it sits within New York's growing cohort of bars where the sourcing question — what is in the glass and where it came from — matters as much as the mixing.
Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's 50 Best
Seirēn
New York City, United States
Seirēn on 7th Avenue in Chelsea brings the Iberian conservas tradition to New York City, with a Spain and Portugal-influenced menu built around tinned fish and tapas-style sharing. Recognised by Star Wine List 2026 for its wine program, it occupies a niche in the city's bar-restaurant overlap where preserved seafood and natural wine share equal billing.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
St Jardim
New York City, United States
St Jardim occupies a corner of West Village at 183 W 10th St, where the neighbourhood's long tradition of intimate, craft-led bars finds a quiet expression. A reservation-first approach is advisable for evening visits.
Stars
New York City, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Esquire selected Stars in New York City for its 2026 Best Bars in America list.
Also recognized by Esquire, Grub Street
Stone & Soil
New York City, United States
A Star Wine List–recognised bar on East 28th Street, Stone & Soil operates at the intersection of Japanese hospitality principles and sustainability-led cocktail craft. The programme draws on omotenashi service philosophy and brings a considered, low-waste approach to a Midtown South address that functions as a genuine neighbourhood anchor rather than a destination showcase.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
The Argyle
New York City, United States
The Argyle is a Caribbean-influenced bar on the Lower Level of 326 7th Ave in Chelsea, recognised by Star Wine List 2026 for the depth of its drinks program. The wine focus is serious enough to earn that designation, but the Caribbean culinary thread keeps the experience grounded and specific. Plan your visit with some lead time — this is not a walk-in-on-a-Friday proposition.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
With Others Brooklyn
New York City, United States
A Star Wine List-recognised bar on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, With Others Brooklyn operates in the tradition of serious New York drinking rooms that treat the wine list and cocktail programme with equal editorial weight. The Bedford Avenue address places it inside Williamsburg's maturing bar corridor, where the conversation has shifted from novelty to sustained craft.
Also recognized by Star Wine List

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