Terroirs

Terroirs is the bar that brought serious natural-wine drinking into central London at a time when nobody else south of the Thames was bothering. The William IV Street room has been open since 2008 with the same buying team for most of that run, and the chalkboard by-the-glass programme remains one of the most genuinely curatorial in the city.

The list reaches deep into Loire, Beaujolais and the wilder corners of natural Italy. The buyers travel constantly, and what you drink any given night reflects whatever shipment landed that week. Prices have held reasonable in a postcode that has no business allowing them, which is the practical reason this room outlasted its imitators.

The food is bistrot-classical and built to support the wine without competing with it. The downstairs room runs busier than the upstairs counter. Sit at the counter if you can. The crowd is the most evenly mixed of any wine bar on this list — trade, civilians, theatre-goers, and the occasional resident who has been coming for fifteen years.

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