L'Entrepot

L’Entrepôt, situated just by Hackney Downs railway station, is a neighbourhood restaurant & wine bar offering around 30 wines by the glass at any one time.

L'Entrepôt – Wine & Dine – 230 Dalston Lane, Hackney E8

We have walk-in tables available for groups of 2, 4, 6 and 10.

For party bookings, we are able to cater up to 70 people at any one time.

To book a table, please email us at [email protected], or call us on 020 7249 1176.

When booking a table, please leave a contact number and an email address so that we can confirm your booking.

Bookings are preferable, particularly on Fridays and Saturdays, though walk-ins are also welcome.

http://lentrepot.co.uk

L'ENTREPÔT: b.y.o.b. - Miniature Lion

“When we got the place last December,” Borough Wines' retail manager Will tells me, “it was pretty dank.

Though the food menu has graduated from being tucked into the corner of the wine list, the food offering is still dwarfed by the prestigious range of wines on sale by the bottle and the glass.

A decade later it has 5 stores, the restaurant and a growing wholesale business, but selling good quality wine cheaply from the barrel in refillable bottles and the dark art of matching wine with food remains at the core of their business.We are introduced to the hard-working and multi-talented team; “That's Christophe behind the bar,” Christophe twinkles back at us, “he's usually at the market but spends a day a week here.

Granted, it's a small notebook and I have a large, chaotic hand, but even so, we have talked about everything from the difference betweenand(oxidation levels, apparently) and how climate change could render wine appellations obsolete, to their new Parisian chef's menu plans.Looking around, I realise it isn't often a place feels as exciting as this does.

Given the crowd the place is pulling in, everyone else can feel it too.Having good quality wine available at £5 per bottle straight from the barrel, with our refill system.We aim to widen our range, grow our retail business and ultimately have our own vineyard.Hearing the clink of refill bottles coming down the street!Carter, the Borough Wines dog, is travelling with us on our trip visiting suppliers in Italy, France and Switzerland so he would hold the shield.

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L'Entrepot – our restaurant on Dalston Lane | Boroughwinesblog

To make a reservation please call us on 0207 249 1176 or send an e-mail to: [email protected] To see our current menu’s please visit our Facebook Page and Twitter office, storage, wine shop and cafe, we have big dreams for this little warehouse.

Being a wine shop primarily, we want to keep the focus on the wines so the food we will offer will be simple and inspired from where the wine comes from.

Regularly we will have around 20 wines open, so to encourage folks to taste many different styles and characters.

Although we won’t take bookings, we do have a table that sits between 16-20 guests which can be bookable and will be used for wine tasting and winemaker dinners.

From the lovely winery of Domaine Roche-Audran, the biodynamic favourite Cotes Du Rhone of Wilton Way, we will offer a three course spring menu (with matching wines, of course) for the £30.

L'Entrepot (230 Dalston Lane, Dalston, London E8) | The List

London's Best Cheeseboards

There are a number of pubs and bistros around London that use Neal’s Yard for their entire cheese offering.

It goes without saying, then, that they know their cheese, and as a proudly British restaurant they, of course, use Neal’s Yard; there is no finer mid-morning snack than an Eccles cake and slab of Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire in that cavernous bar.

Antidote in Soho have nailed everything that makes a great wine bar – helpful staff, beautiful marble counter tops, a great wine list, and of course an expertly chosen range of cheese and charcuterie.

Using no fewer than five separate suppliers including Buchanan’s, La Fromagerie and Beillevaire, the cheese trolley at Medlar is a reason to visit in itself – a huge, beautiful thing groaning with the very finest British and European cheeses.

Probably one of the most famous cheeseboards in London, the selection at Chez Bruce is as big as at it beautiful, using a number of suppliers including Neal’s Yard and La Fromagerie to construct a comprehensive spread of over 120 British and European cheeses, 20-25 of which will be available on the trolley on any particular service.

Grace and flavour: L'entrepôt | London Evening Standard

Speaking of wine, I had lunch at L’entrepôt in Hackney this week; a sort of wine bar/wine merchant/bistro/enormo brunch space about ten minutes’ walk from Hackney Central Overground, close to The Amersham Arms, a unique establishment where all genres of human life can be found.

Having lunch in a wine merchant’s — for this is a sibling of Borough Wines — can be a perilous affair, particularly on a grey, drizzly day, as sometime after the first glass of Beaumirail Vacqueyras 2010 one will think it an enormously cost-saving and common-sense notion to buy a dozen bottles of this wine.

Cut to two weeks later and you’ll be sat on the glory-free zone that is your sofa, opening the final bottle, shouting at Question Time with purple tramp’s teeth.

God bless the chef, working away in his open kitchen, creating these wonders with so much pride and passion, before clanking his bell for service — again, then again, while the waiting staff pointlessly feng shuied chairs, checked their phones or simply stared into oblivion.

Readers always say to me, ‘I bet you get amazing service everywhere,’ and although I like people to imagine that I float into places in a flurry of tugged forelocks, rose petals and waitresses attempting to wash my feet with their hair, the truth is that in most places I can walk in and be the only customer, plonk myself down brandishing a neon bingo blotter in my fist and rock demonically, shouting, ‘HALLLLO!

L'Entrepôt | Bars and pubs in Hackney, London

Which isn’t to say that this eastern outpost of Borough Wines doesn’t look promising: it does, with its shabby industrial chic, and wine for sale in the barrel and bottle.

On weekdays, the kitchen is open only in the evening (grazing aside) and Saturdays and Sundays focus on brunch; add the fact that the group is best known as a small, fiercely independent wine merchant and you would be forgiven for assuming the food was merely a bolt-on.

From interesting egg dishes to a three-course rotisserie menu, via a few French and Modern Euro bistro dishes, the kitchen staff know how to put an appealing menu together and deliver it to restaurant standards.

Eggs benedict was so perfectly judged that we regretted not trying the oeufs en meurette (in red wine).

The wine list, sourced directly by Borough, is predominantly French and Spanish, with recognised appellations complemented by more off-piste bottles that the staff are delighted to contextualise – the seldom-found aramon grape in a sulphur-free Coteaux d’Ensérune from Languedoc did indeed deliver Rhône-like depth.