Best Wine Bars in London

107 Wine Bar

107 Wine Bar on Lower Clapton Road sits at the quieter, more considered end of East London's drinking scene, a neighbourhood wine bar where the list does the talking. With sparse verified data available, the address alone places it in Hackney's emergent corridor, where low-key formats have quietly displaced the louder bar culture of earlier decades. Visit for wine-led evenings in a setting that prioritises the glass over the spectacle.

51 Cave à Manger

On Exmouth Market, one of Clerkenwell's most characterful streets, 51 Cave à Manger occupies a niche that London's wine bar scene has made its own: serious bottles presented without ceremony, matched to food that earns equal attention. The venue holds a Star Wine List award for 2026, placing it among a recognised tier of London wine destinations. Exmouth Market's compact strip rewards this format well.

Ancestrel Wines

A Star Wine List 2026 recipient operating out of Forest Hill in southeast London, Ancestrel Wines sits at a remove from the capital's more trafficked wine bar circuits. The address alone signals intent: this is not a venue chasing footfall. For those willing to cross south of the river, it offers a focused encounter with wine culture in a neighbourhood that rarely gets the critical attention it deserves.

Authentique Epicerie & Bar

Double-awarded in 2021 and 2026, it occupies a tier of London wine bars where curation and occasion matter more than scale. For a celebratory bottle or an unhurried evening in north London, the address carries genuine credentials.

Bar Crispin

Bar Crispin on Kingly Street has earned Star Wine List recognition three times running, 2022, 2024, and 2026, placing it among the more consistently regarded wine bars in London's Soho. The room sits within Carnaby's pedestrianised grid, where a concise, thoughtfully sourced list draws a crowd that treats wine as a serious pursuit rather than a backdrop to the night.

Claridge's Bar

Deep wine list

Claridge's Bar occupies a particular position in Mayfair's drinking culture: a hotel bar that genuinely earns its place in serious cocktail conversation rather than coasting on the parent property's reputation. Located at Brook Street, W1K, it draws a mix of long-stay guests and neighbourhood regulars who treat it as a destination in its own right. Dress accordingly and expect prices that reflect the postcode.

Coin Laundry

On Exmouth Market, one of Clerkenwell's most consistently animated streets, Coin Laundry has moved through several identities since opening, arriving at a format that sits comfortably between neighbourhood bar and destination cocktail venue. The address attracts a mix of after-work EC1 regulars and drinkers making a specific trip, drawn by a program that has grown more technically considered with each iteration.

Cork and Bottle wine bar

Deep wine list

Cork and Bottle is a long-running wine bar on Cranbourn Street in London's West End, recognised by Star Wine List in 2026. Its basement setting and broad bottle selection have made it a fixture among wine drinkers in an area better known for theatre crowds and passing trade. For those planning ahead, the format rewards curiosity over convention.

Coupette

Coupette on Bethnal Green Road has built a reputation as one of East London's most serious cocktail addresses, drawing drinkers who track bar programmes rather than postcodes. The format is deceptively low-key: a neighbourhood room on a working-class stretch of E2 that happens to run one of the capital's more considered drinks lists, with a particular strength in Calvados and French-inflected spirits.

Dan's

A neighbourhood wine bar and shop in the heart of Dalston, Dan's operates around communal tables, free-flowing wine, and the kind of unhurried conversation that has made it a fixture in N1's drinking scene. Two large communal tables set the format: this is a place designed for sharing bottles and time, not ticking through a cocktail menu. The wine shop element means bottles leave as purchases as often as they do as pours.

Ducksoup

Deep wine list

Ducksoup on Dean Street is Soho's most-referenced wine bar and the flagship of a small London group that includes Rawduck and Little Duck-The Picklery. The room is compact, the wine list natural-leaning, and the atmosphere reliably convivial. Plan ahead: the format rewards those who know what they are walking into.

EQUAL PARTS

Equal Parts occupies a corner of Hackney Road where East London's neighbourhood-restaurant culture has quietly matured beyond its casual origins. Positioned outside London's formal fine-dining circuit, it draws comparison to a generation of technically serious but format-relaxed venues that have shifted how the city thinks about daytime and evening service as distinct propositions.

Goodbye Horses

Goodbye Horses is an open London wine bar with food at 21 Halliford Street, N1 3HB. Use the official goodbyehorses.london site for current planning.

Hector’s

Deep wine list

Hector's is a natural and low-intervention wine bar in De Beauvoir, the quiet residential pocket of north London between Islington and Dalston. The bar draws a neighbourhood crowd that values producer-led pours over trend-chasing. It occupies a position in the city's growing circuit of serious, unhurried wine bars where the list does the talking.

Lower

Lower on Lower Marsh holds a Star Wine List award for 2026, placing it among London's recognised wine bar addresses south of the Thames. Located at 19 Lower Marsh in Waterloo SE1, it sits in a neighbourhood better known for its market street character than its drinking credentials, which is precisely what makes the address worth knowing.

Luna Wine Bar

On the cobbled stretch of Shad Thames, within sight of Tower Bridge, Luna Wine Bar occupies a quiet tier of London drinking that resists the city's louder cocktail theatrics. Intimate in scale and unpretentious in character, it draws neighbourhood regulars and passing visitors in roughly equal measure, offering a focused wine-led format in one of the capital's most historically layered riverside settings.

Netil House (Creative Workspace)

Netil House occupies a converted warehouse on Westgate Street in London Fields, operating as one of East London's more quietly influential creative workspace addresses. The building draws freelancers, small studios, and independent operators into a neighbourhood that has become a reference point for the city's post-industrial creative economy. It sits in Hackney's broader ecosystem of repurposed industrial space turned cultural infrastructure.

Newcomer Wines

Newcomer Wines has held a Star Wine List award every year from 2021 through 2026, making it one of Dalston's most consistently recognised drinking destinations. Positioned on Dalston Lane in east London, the bar sits inside a neighbourhood that has become a reference point for independent wine and drinks culture. Five consecutive annual recognitions signal a programme with genuine depth and staying power.

Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit

Deep wine list

Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit sits on one of Bloomsbury's quietest Georgian streets, operating as both a serious wine bar and a kitchen that treats the glass as equal to the plate. The Lamb's Conduit Street address gives it a neighbourhood character the Soho original lacks, drawing a crowd that reads the wine list the way others read a menu. An essential stop for anyone who takes London's wine culture seriously.

Olfaclub

A wine bar on St James Street in Walthamstow, Olfaclub occupies the quieter, more considered end of London's natural wine scene. The address puts it in E17 rather than the centre, which shapes both its crowd and its pace. For those tracking where interesting wine programming has been moving in the capital, the postcode is itself a signal.

Passione Vino

Deep wine list

A long-standing Italian wine shop and bar on Leonard Street in Shoreditch, Passione Vino operates a weekday format that lets you drink from the same bottles it imports directly from artisanal and family-run producers across Italy. Walk-ins are welcome, bookings are possible, and the selection skews toward producers most London wine lists never stock.

Selfridges

Deep wine list

Selfridges on Oxford Street is one of London's most enduring retail landmarks, with a food and drink offer that has expanded well beyond the department store format. At 400 Oxford Street, it sits at the junction of Marylebone and Mayfair, drawing both destination shoppers and those navigating the capital's dense West End. The building's scale and address make it a reference point for understanding London's commercial and cultural geography.

Streatham Wine House

Deep wine list

A laidback wine bar and shop on Streatham Hill, this South London outpost pours over 60 wines by the glass from an organic, biodynamic, and natural wine list that would hold its own in Bermondsey or Bethnal Green. The format is relaxed, the selection is serious, and the address alone tells you something about where London's wine culture is heading.

The Black Book

Deep wine list

The bar draws a returning crowd that comes for the wine programme rather than the spectacle, sitting at the quieter, more considered end of a neighbourhood built on noise and theatre.

The Duke Organic

An Islington pub that positions itself squarely within the organic and natural drinks movement, The Duke Organic at 30 St Peter's Street brings considered curation to a neighbourhood better known for its cocktail bars. Where nearby venues compete on theatrics or technique, this one argues the case through provenance, a bar built around what's in the bottle, not just what's in the glass.

The Sourcing Table - Peckham

Deep wine list

The wine bar and shop format positions it within a growing tier of retailer-venues that treat the floor as both discovery space and drinking destination.

The Winemakers Club

Deep wine list

Few wine bars in the City fringe manage this depth of producer relationships.

Vagabond Wines (Soho flagship) - 14–16 Ganton Street

Deep wine list

Vagabond Wines on Ganton Street operates on a self-pour enomatic system that turns the gap between wine list and glass into something hands-on. The Soho flagship draws a crowd that returns not for occasion dining but for the kind of exploratory drinking that builds over multiple visits. It sits at the intersection of wine retail, education, and bar culture in a neighbourhood that rewards that kind of hybrid format.

Veraison Wines

Veraison Wines on Camberwell Church Street has earned Star Wine List recognition in both 2023 and 2026, placing it among London's more credentialled neighbourhood wine bars. The format leans toward serious list-building over atmosphere theatrics, making it a reference point for south London's quietly growing wine culture. For those tracking the city's shift away from central bar districts, Veraison is a useful marker.