Best Wine Bars in Los Angeles

Accomplice Bar

Accomplice Bar is a cocktail destination in Los Angeles that sits within the city's shift toward technically precise, atmosphere-forward drinking programs. The bar draws a crowd looking for considered pours in a setting where the room itself does as much work as the glass. Check current hours and availability directly before visiting.

Alma's

Alma's occupies a position in the Los Angeles dining conversation where the sum of its room, kitchen, and floor team carries more weight than any single element. In a city where competition for attention is constant, the interplay between what arrives on the plate and how it is presented and explained shapes a visit into something more considered than most. A reference point for collaborative, front-to-back hospitality on the West Coast.

Augustine Wine Bar

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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.

baby battista

Baby Battista occupies a corner of Silver Lake's Glendale Boulevard corridor where the neighbourhood's appetite for Italian-adjacent comfort meets a kitchen temperament shaped by technique over nostalgia. The room draws a loyal local crowd, and the approach, wherever it lands on the spectrum between old-world and California, reflects the broader Silver Lake tendency to take its food seriously without announcing it.

Bar Bandini

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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

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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

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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.

Bar Sinizki

Bar Sinizki occupies a corner of Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village where the bar functions less as a destination than as a fixture, the kind of place locals return to on weeknights without planning. Positioned within a Silver Lake-adjacent corridor increasingly defined by neighborhood-first drinking, Sinizki sits alongside peers like Bar Next Door and Mirate as part of a quieter, more grounded side of the Los Angeles bar scene.

Barbrix Wine Shop and Restaurant

On a stretch of Hyperion Avenue where Silver Lake's residential blocks give way to a denser commercial strip, Barbrix occupies the hybrid territory between wine shop and neighborhood restaurant that Los Angeles does better than most American cities. The format, browse bottles, drink them with food, is more European in spirit than Californian in execution, and the room tends to attract the kind of regular who knows the difference.

Buvons

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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.

CAFÉ TRISTE

Café Triste sits on N Broadway in Los Angeles's Chinatown corridor, a stretch that has absorbed successive waves of creative energy without ever fully resolving into a single identity. The address places it squarely in a neighbourhood where bars and café-adjacent spaces compete on atmosphere and editorial coherence as much as menu depth. For LA drinking, the context matters as much as the glass.

Cosette Wine Bar

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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 Chucho

This dive bar in Mar Vista feels like it’s been plucked right out of Silver Lake. Grab a glass of natural wine at El Chucho and drink it on the sidewalk.

El Prado

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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.

Force of Nature

Force of Nature is a hidden speakeasy above Abbot Kinney. It's a converted attic with a killer vibe and rooftop patio. The menu highlights female winemakers and spirit makers, and it’s quickly become the spot everyone’s heading to in Venice. By the team behind our fave, Crudo e Nudo!

Gold Line

Gold Line occupies a corner of North Figueroa Street in Highland Park, a neighbourhood that has become one of Los Angeles's more interesting proving grounds for neighbourhood bars with serious drinking programs. The address puts it deep in the corridor where Eagle Rock meets NELA's bar scene, drawing a crowd that expects more than the category usually delivers.

Good Clean Fun

A natural wine bar that feels like your coolest friend’s living room, pouring pouring small batch, thoughtfully made bottles and hosting fun tastings. Come for a glass, stay for the wine education and immaculate vibes.

Homage Brewing

A go-to birthday spot in Chinatown that starts casual and somehow turns into a full night out. Come for the beer, natural wine, and light bites, stay once it shifts into dancing as the night goes on. They’re always hosting something too: pop-ups, markets, and a crowd that feels IYKYK.

Justine's Wine Bar

Justine’s Wine Bar is a cozy, psychedelic wine bar with vegan food offerings in Frogtown. With glowing orbs, dreamy murals, and a selection of natural wines, it offers a fun atmosphere for wine enthusiasts.

La Pharmacie du Vin

The charming European natty wine bar and shop.

Lily’s Bar

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.

Little Joy Cocktails

There's a pool table here!

lolo wine bar

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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.

nico's

Natural wine bar and shop with a cool-kids-basement vibe. Upstairs you’ll find bottles to take home; downstairs it’s all low light, good tunes, and community hangs. Think monthly board game nights, stand-up, open mics, and whatever else keeps the night interesting.

Sam’s Place

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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.

Seco

On Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, Seco operates within a section of Los Angeles bar culture that prizes technique over spectacle. The cocktail program sits in a neighbourhood that has reshaped how the city thinks about drinking, drawing a crowd that reads menus carefully and orders with intent. For anyone tracking where LA's craft bar scene is heading, this address is worth understanding.

Solarc Brewing

A whimsical neighborhood hang with colorful mosaics everywhere you look. Solarc is both a brewery and a natural wine spot. Expect live music, game nights, and a super friendly, creative crowd.

Stanley's Wet Goods

Stanley's Wet Goods on Venice Blvd. pairs natural wine, craft beer, and zero-proof drinks with a seated bar, communal tables, and an outdoor terrace.

Stir Crazy

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list

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.

Tabula Rasa

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.

Tabula Rasa Bar

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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.

The Airliner

The Airliner is back with a fresh new identity. Downstairs is sultry and moody, serving Asian-inspired comfort food like spaghetti with roe and brown butter, crispy chicken wings, and black sesame brown butter rice crispy treats...best paired with one of their sharp cocktails. Upstairs, the vibe flips into a glowing listening bar of natural wood and pink orb lights, where DJs spin and natural wine flows late into the night. The Airliner is shaping up to be Lincoln Heights’ new it spot.

The Grant

Neighborhood cocktail bar with a rotating lineup of food pop-ups. It’s the well-suited spot to wind down with a well-made drink, especially if you’re looking for a post-Dunsmoor stop just down the street. Welcoming and exactly the kind of bar you want in your back pocket.