Part-wine bar, part-restaurant, this City staple aims for simplicity. Done out in plain walls and clean woods, the bar area is as straightforward as any pub, albeit a little brighter; there are restaurants adjacent and below.
Five wines of each colour are available by the glass, including a Chilean chardonnay and a French chablis; the 50-odd varieties by the bottle run from a sauvignon blanc from the Van Zylshof Estate in South Africa to rarer reds from the likes of Italy’s Guerrieri Rizzardi; most bottles are priced in the £20 to £30 range.
The wine-bar menu features uncomplicated comfort-cooking: sirloin steak sandwich, Welsh rarebit with a cheese and ale topping, and so on.