Joyce is the spin-off bar from Brockley’s Salthouse Bottles, perfectly balancing knowledgeably-curated wine lists with a laid-back sense of fun (read: there are hula hoops on the snack menu). Slink downstairs on weekends to discover Cave Cuvée, a pared-back, Parisian-inspired den where you can sample some of the bottles stocked upstairs alongside cocktails, music, and small plates.ĭetails: 250a Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AA | Open Fri-Sun, 5-11pm | Book here Now it’s gone from temporary pivot to fully-fledged business venture, and they’ve opened a second dedicated bottle shop, Shop Cuvée, in Bethnal Green. Apparently, this was quite popular during lockdown. Less than a year after opening, old Johnny Pandemic came along, and they had to rapidly switch from dining in to supplying locals with wine. Once upon a time, there was Top Cuvée, a Highbury restaurant from the Three Sheets team with (as you might guess from the name) an emphasis on wine. And it all comes with a neat menu of European tapas from Casa Fofò‘s Fabien Spagnolo, from native oysters to pig’s head croquettes.ĭetails: 19 Kingly St, Carnaby, London W1B 5PY | Open daily till 11pm (6pm Sun) | Book here Sommelier Alex Price is behind the all-natural wine list here, with an emphasis on French regions as well as wines hailing from the volcanic soils of Greece and Tenerife. Instead, the interiors are a cross between grown-up kebab joint and a giant backgammon board, with mauve zig-zags running round the walls and high, zinc-topped tables. A wine-focussed spin-off of the casual Spitalfields restaurant, BC eschews the classic wine bar aesthetic of bare brick walls and candlelit alcoves. Here are the ones to cross off your bucket list…īar Crispin is wedged into that excessively busy stretch of Kingly Street, where punters spill out onto the street and the city gets a distinctly European vibe. These days London is furnished with a bounty of natural wine-focussed bars, stocked with cool and interesting bottles from small producers and up-and-coming growers. In short, they’re all practices that make far less of an environmental impact, and just so happen to make wines that are extremely delicious, too. There are the organic wines (no pesticides or creepy chemicals), the biodynamic wines (where grapes are grown in blissful harmony with natural cycles and the rest of the farmland), and the low-intervention wines (not adding a load of extra stuff to the fermentation process).
It’s the umbrella term for the growing trend in winemaking to just, well, let the grapes get on with it. But don’t overdo it.If you haven’t tried natural wine yet, then consider this a (minimal) intervention. 2) There are too many varieties of bottled water. I learned some valuable things while writing this: 1) Waters absolutely do not all taste the same. Riese called it shocking that some companies can make money selling what is essentially purified tap water. Lastly, when buying water, look for natural spring water instead of purified water. (“I’m just amazed how different water can taste,” said Riese.) Secondly, there’s no need to buy bottled water for the purposes of hydrating just get a good filter. To prepare, I had a fun chat with a water sommelier (yes, a water sommelier!), Martin Riese, who gave me some helpful water pointers, some of which I’ll try to quickly summarize (Riese did not participate in the rankings): First, water is interesting and has varying flavors and textures, like any other beverage. Nonetheless, I tried more than 70 different waters for this piece.
I went to six grocery stores, two drugstores, a liquor store and two convenience stores to find as many commonly available waters as possible, but I’m sure I missed a few. Bottled water is also a blanket term: I tried canned waters and boxed waters, even a water that comes in a bag. That’s why I’m here.įor these rankings, I evaluated brands of still water by taste and ranked them, from best to worst. The market is now drowning in bottled water brands, and it can be a mind-numbing endeavor to parse them out. If you’re over a certain age, you likely remember when the concept of bottled water was fairly laughable. Get yourself a reusable bottle and, when buying water, look for nonplastic containers (most of the waters in my top 10 come in more environmentally friendly glass bottles).īottled water is a booming, multibillion-dollar industry: Global sales from 109 countries grew 73% between 20, making it one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, according to the United Nations. Plastic bags, bottles and takeout containers are all an enormous detriment to the Earth. This piece is not an endorsement of bottled water. We have a lot to get to, so let’s jump right into the official Bottled Water Power Rankings.įirst: Everyone should have access to safe drinking water.
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