Bars & Pubs

Green & Blue

Part wine shop, part wine bar, Green & Blue has more than one way to please local oenophiles. Proprietor Kate Thal is a champion of small-scale, high-quality wineries....

Dulwich: 36-38 Lordship Lane, SE22 8HJ

Kensington Wine Rooms

Enjoyable wine bar with food

Notting Hill: 127-129 Kensington Church Street, W8 7LP

Terroirs

Artisan-made food and ‘natural’ wines

Strand: 5 William IV St, WC2N 4DW

Vinoteca

Vinoteca is much more than a ‘wine bar’. Yes, you can come in and savour one of the 15 or so wines by the glass, but you can also buy a bottle or a case from the...

Farringdon: 7 St John Street, EC1M 4AA

Vivat Bacchus

What is it about quotations and wine bars? Scrawled throughout this rambling venue you’ll find ‘Champagne is a way of life, a state of mind, and better than...

Farringdon: 47 Farringdon Street, EC4A 4LL

Wonder Bar

Anyone who professes to not liking wine is liable to be converted here. Selfridges Wonder Bar, overseen by their sommelier and wine buyer Dawn Davies, is one of...

Marble Arch: Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, W1U 1AT

Amuse Bouche

Affordable Champagne bar in Soho

Soho: 21-22 Poland Street, W1F 8QG

Apartment 195 (branch of Jamies)

Chelsea: 195 King's Road, SW3 5ED

Cork & Bottle

A cosy, tucked-away place for those in-the-know, this basement bar is one of the few independent establishments left around Leicester Square. A Mumm Champagne window...

Leicester Square: 44-46 Cranbourn Street, WC2H 7AN

Gordon's

One of London’s oldest bars, Gordon’s is adorned with sweaty, stained alcoves and cobwebs. Surprisingly this appeals to a young, trendy crowd, but you’re still...

Strand: 47 Villiers Street, WC2N 6NE

Negozio Classica

Negozio Classica is fashioned after an Italian enoteca. Therefore you can buy wine to take away or drink-in (there’s a corkage charge of £6.50 per bottle), and...

Westbourne Grove: 283 Westbourne Grove, W11 2QA

Albertine

In business over 20 years, Albertine nevertheless keeps up with market trends, recently installing shiny pine shelving to show off bottles to take away at lower...

Shepherd's Bush: 1 Wood Lane, W12 7DP

Amuse Bouche

Parsons Green: 51 Parsons Green Lane, SW6 4JA

Apostle (branch of Jamies)

City: 34 Ludgate Hill, EC4M 7DE

Assembly (branch of Balls Brothers)

City: 14-15 Seething Lane, EC3N 4AX

Balls Brothers

Though Balls Brothers could be seen as a more modern version of Davy’s, Its wine bars are also dominated by hunting prints, brass rails and plenty of Burgundy and...

London Bridge: Hay's Galleria, Tooley Street, SE1 2HD

Balls Brothers

City: 11 Blomfield Street, EC2M 7AY

Balls Brothers

City: 158 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4LN

Balls Brothers

City: 2 St Mary at Hill, EC3R 8EE

Balls Brothers

St James's: 20 St James's Street, SW1A 1ES

Balls Brothers

Mayfair: 34 Brook Street, W1K 5DN

Balls Brothers

City: 5-6 Carey Lane, EC2V 8AE

Balls Brothers

Victoria: 50 Buckingham Palace Road, SW1W 0RN

Balls Brothers

City: Bury Court, 38 St Mary Axe, EC3A 8EX

Balls Brothers

City: Mark Lane, EC3R 7BB

Balls Brothers

City: Minster Pavement, Mincing Lane, EC3R 7PP

Balls Brothers

London Bridge: The Hop Cellars, 24 Southwark Street, SE1 1TY

Balls Brothers

City: 52 Lime Street, EC3M 7BS

Bangers (branch of Davy's)

City: Eldon House, 2-12 Wilson Street, EC2M 2TE