Wilson’s Wine Bar at No 77 Ladywell Rd, next door to Plenty, the wholefood pantry, will be opening on Thursday March 7.
The neighbourhood wine bar and restaurant is been set up by Joel and Alina of Oscar’s with their business partner and chef Henry Freestone.
To begin with Wilson’s will be open Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings only but as summer approaches Joel and Alina say they will open on more days and offer lunches at weekends.
Joel says Wilson’s will be a food focused wine bar “with Henry in the kitchen knocking out classic European flavours to accompany the wines.”
Bookings are already being taken at www.wilsonslondon.co.uk and there’s a sneak preview of some of the menu.
Oscar’s couple Joel and Alina to open Wilson’s wine bar at No 77 Ladywell Rd
A Wilson, the long neglected shop unit at No 77 Ladywell Road, is getting a facelift and will soon be home to a new business.
The shop, originally a bootmakers, later a recruitment agency for medical staff and an accountant’s office, is being transformed into Wilson’s Wine Bar.
Oscar’s couple Joel and Alina along with their business partner Henry Freestone plan to open a wine bar offering good food in February 2024.
Henry, an award winning chef, will oversee the kitchen and the menu on offer. Joel says a kitchen is currently under construction.
“We decided to call it Wilson’s Wine Bar because the shop has long been known and seen in the neighbourhood as A Wilson. We’ve kept the original sign and plan to display it in the wine bar,” he says.
Joel and Alina had been hoping to open a restaurant in the old Coral betting shop on Algernon Road in Ladywell.
So they now plan to open the wine bar at No 77, next door to Plenty – their wholefood pantry – and offer a range of dishes. “The plan is for something similar and perhaps simpler at Wilsons,” says Joel.
But squatters held up the project for more than a year and the deteriorating condition of the building had made the project too expensive for them to take on.
“We will ratchet up the food offering once the business is established.” They aim with the help of Henry (pictured left) to create and offer a similar range of “modern European” dishes as the one they had planned at Corals.
Wilson’s will open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, all day Saturday and during the day on a Sunday.”