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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

Sager and Wilde

86/100
  • London, East London
  • Natural wine bar; small plates, charcuterie, cheese, toasties
  • By the glass
  • wine-bar mid-range to premium
  • Beta
  • Assessed June 2026
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These are confidence labels — how sure we are that what we publish still reflects the restaurant's current practice. They are not a judgement on the restaurant; the wine and cooking are scored separately, out of 100.

  • Beta — assessed and scored, but we are still confirming some details (such as the current wine list), so it is published with that caveat.
  • No label — a fully confirmed entry.
  • In development — not yet a review; it appears so you can see where coverage is coming.

Some restaurants change their menus often, and we cannot always keep pace. The date beside the label says when we looked.

We assessed Sager and Wilde in June 2026 from the menu and wine list as they stood then. Dishes and bottles move on; how to drink well here changes far more slowly. We name bottles from the list we saw and say what to reach for by style, so the advice outlasts the list. Once you are seated, At the Table in the Vinealto app reads the list in front of you.

Sager and Wilde is a Hackney Road wine bar where a decade-deep, low-intervention cellar is the reason to book and the kitchen cooks the salty, savoury plates that flatter it. The wine programme achieves genuine mutual elevation (grower Champagne, mature back-vintages and a Coravin tier that opens rare bottles by the glass, almost all of it natural and fairly priced), let down only by a thin fortified and dessert corner. It will most reward the curious drinker who wants to explore natural wine in good hands, by the glass or the bottle, without being made to feel they should already know it all.

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Brawn is an east London neighbourhood restaurant whose natural-wine list is one of the most distinctive and best-value serious cellars in the city. The wine programme achieves real mutual elevation through a shared savoury, mineral sensibility between kitchen and list, limited only by self-imposed boundaries (no Sherry, almost nothing off-dry) that leave its single hardest plate served well rather than ideally. It will most reward the curious drinker who wants to explore grower and low-intervention wines by the glass without a destination-dining bill.

  • By the glass
  • accessible neighbourhood
  • Assessed June 2026
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