Café des amis Champagne and Wine Bar

For that little spice of something different as a couple, on a date or with friends; poke your head around the corner on the road next to Covent garden tube station to find Cafe Des Amis. This champagne and wine bar is a two floor setup with modern squared fittings [...]

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Manouche Wine Bar

Manouche is a wine bar that lives on the downstairs floor of goodge and Mortimer street. The wine selection as one would expect is pretty thorough and there is also a good selection of more run of the mill drinks. This venue is very simplistic and dark. It is quiet even of a [...]

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Mortimers Wine Bar

Outside Mortimer’s is the french cafe of wine bars, a flood of wooden table and chair combinations and simple plant decor which fool you into thinking your experience here will be the height of class and sophistication. Within, the bar sits to the right of the assortment of further seating where we head [...]

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Duttons Wine Bar

Duttons is a big busy brooding pub with a large and noisy crowd, friendly enough and one of those kind of atmosphere’s that’s so filled with bustle that the bar itself feels messy with a thousand drinks spilled upon it and the poor barmaids looking drowned in orders of fifty drinks or more [...]

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Weaver’s Wine Bar

An extension of the existing “the Weaver” pub next door, this is for those who dont really want to associate with playing pool, watching football or listening to drunk men rambling on in a corner about better times. This more up-market experience tries to push a wine-bar image with leather couches, candle-light although [...]

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Vats Wine Bar

A floorboard clad long wine bar, well buried up a pedestrianised road in the rich pickings behind Russell Square. This is an established older, middle-market sophisticated wine bar with some fine examples and not for those living on the cheap. The place is communal and glowing with wine knowledge, old bottles on random [...]

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The Bung Hole

Sounding something like an old well filled with sewage this seemingly small pub masquerades as a wine bar and then once you are inside tells you that all the wine decor splattered around the place is for show and that the wines available are severely limited and frankly not particularly nice. The ground [...]

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Elvino Wine Merchants

El Vino, I am told, is an institution in London wines. The venue looks like a very old bakery from the front but inside it becomes a deep set bar and cafe behind the shop front with a very thorough stock of interesting wines. In the summer an area to the right [...]

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Balls Brothers

A traditional pub sign above a doorway and downward steps into a basement wine bar - the name “Balls Brothers” tells you nothing about what’s inside. Instead of some comedy-toilet-humour-gay venue we find a very traditional wine bar, with well stocked bar, expensive drinks and a maze of interconnecting rooms and low-ceiling hallways [...]

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Gantons Wine Bar

Seeing what looks like a red version of a small Yates bar I head in this direction with my mate Alex and undeterred by the “wine bar” sign, I make my way into want can only be described and a “trendy, up-beat, party bar”. It was a friendly venue with bright lights in [...]

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