Best Wine Bars in the East Village

The East Village takes its wine as seriously as its dive bars. Natural pours, rotating lists, and candlelit rooms where the staff knows what they are actually serving.

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  1. Adore

    East Village · 320 E 6th St, New York, NY 10003

    An East Village Japanese wine bar that feels like a Tokyo backstreet got quietly teleported downtown. It’s all clean lines, low light, and a tightly edited list of Japanese bottles you won’t pretend to recognize. But wi…

  2. Ruffian

    East Village · 125 E 7th St, New York, NY 10009, USA

    One of the originals of NYC's natural wine bar movement, focused almost entirely on Eastern European bottles (Georgia, Slovenia, Croatia) with one of the deepest Georgian wine pours in the city. The list is organized in…

  3. Smithereens

    East Village · 414 E 9th St, New York, NY 10009, USA

    New England seafood that took a wrong turn into the East Village and never looked back. Semi-subterranean, moody gray-and-blue, with wall sconces doubling as wine ice buckets. The lobster roll is made with lobster-shell…

  4. Ops

    East Village · 176 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003

    An East Village pizzeria that treats dough like a long-term relationship. Slow, patient, and very serious about it. The room is spare and softly lit, the pies come out blistered and beautifully charred, and the wine lis…

  5. Book Club Bar

    East Village · 197 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009

    A book-lined bar where you can sip a Negroni while pretending you’re the mysterious protagonist in a novel no one’s written yet. The staff knows their liquor and their literature, so let them pick a wine and a reading r…

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What's on the Best Wine Bars in the East Village list?
Best Wine Bars in the East Village features Adore, Ruffian, Smithereens, Ops, and Book Club Bar. 10Spot hand-picks and updates the full list.
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10Spot curates Best Wine Bars in the East Village from locally loved spots and refreshes it as new favorites open. The East Village takes its wine as seriously as its dive bars. Natural pours, rotating lists, and candlelit rooms where the staff knows what they are actually …

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