The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers
Native
Native is a small, catch-led Sheffield seafood restaurant with a concise but genuinely curated, seafood-first wine list. The programme achieves real mutual elevation on the core raw, cured and shellfish plates — an almost entirely unoaked list that answers the kitchen's hardest fish traps by the glass — while leaving the spicier and sweeter-savoury curveballs less fully served and offering nothing sweet or fortified at the close. It will most reward the diner who comes for oysters and simply-cooked fish and wants a well-matched glass for each plate without committing to a bottle.
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La Bottega
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Italian small plates and grill
La Bottega is an Italian small-plates and grill restaurant in Sheffield with one of the most serious and wide-ranging wine lists in the city. It achieves real mutual elevation across the whole menu, from everyday regionals by the glass to a genuine cellar of icons, all thoughtfully bought and clearly communicated. It will most reward the committed wine lover who wants both an easy glass and a bottle worth making an occasion of.
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Sardinian and Italian
Domo is a wholehearted Sardinian restaurant in Sheffield whose almost-entirely Sardinian and Italian list is a genuine pleasure to drink from. It achieves real mutual elevation by pouring island wine with island food, and it teaches as it goes, with a wine map and library that make the unfamiliar approachable. It will most reward the curious drinker who wants to explore Sardinia properly, by the glass or the bottle.
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Sardinian small plates and rooftop wine bar
Kelu is a Sardinian small-plates restaurant and rooftop wine bar in Sheffield whose almost entirely Sardinian list is the point of the place. It achieves genuine mutual elevation by pouring island wine with island food across several glass sizes, held back only by a heavy reliance on one producer and the absence of a dessert wine. It will most reward the drinker who wants to explore Sardinia by the glass in a relaxed, grazing setting.
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Modern British small plates
Bench is a small, natural-wine-focused modern-British small-plates restaurant in Nether Edge, Sheffield, cooking bright, acid-driven Mediterranean-and-Middle-Eastern food. Its list is short but genuinely thoughtful — high-acid whites, a skin-contact orange and light chilled reds chosen to sit with the food, generous by the glass and carafe — held back only by its size and the absence of any sweet wine. It will most reward the curious drinker who loves natural wine and is happy to graze and take a steer from the floor.
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