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Best Natural Wine Restaurants in Los Angeles 2026
Natural Wine · Los Angeles · 7 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 27, 2026 · Updated June 27, 2026
Los Angeles drinks more low-intervention wine than any city in America, and at its best bar you do not even get a list — you tell the bartender three words and they pour. That bar is Bar Covell, open since 2010, and the scene it helped start now stretches across the Eastside: a Silver Lake kitchen whose list has been all-natural for nearly a decade, an oyster room serving funky chilled reds under a disco ball, an Echo Park bar pouring California wine straight from the tap. None of it is precious. Ranked below are the seven Los Angeles rooms that pour natural wine best — the dedicated bars and the restaurants whose kitchens earn the bottles beside them — with the people, the food and the prices at each.
1.Bar Covell
LA's original natural wine bar, no list since 2010 — go for a late glass and let the bartender read your mood.
Bar Covell, on a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Feliz, is the room that taught Los Angeles to drink this way. Dustin Lancaster opened it in 2010 with a deliberately list-free format the city had not seen: there is no menu of bottles, you tell the bartender a few words about what you like — earthy, bright, a red that drinks cold — and they pour from a cellar of several hundred mostly low-intervention wines. The food is brief and on point: charcuterie, cheese, the long-running truffled cheese toast. The room is candlelit and worn-in, the back patio one of the best places on the Eastside to lose an evening. No reservations; go early or late on a weeknight. Come for the bar that started the scene, and a glass chosen for you, not off a list.
No booking — arrive early or late; describe what you like, the truffle-cheese toast, a charcuterie board, a seat on the back patio.
2.Botanica
Silver Lake's all-natural-since-2017 kitchen — book it for farmers-market cooking and a list with no industrial bottle on it.
Botanica, a sunlit restaurant and market on Silver Lake Boulevard, is the best place in the city to drink natural wine with serious food. Former food journalists Emily Fiffer and Heather Sperling have run an exclusively natural list since opening in 2017, sourced from small independent growers with a deliberate emphasis on women winemakers and organic or biodynamic farming. The cooking matches it — vegetable-forward, market-driven Californian plates that change with the season, plus one of the better brunches in town. The room is bright and plant-filled, the energy unfussy. Book a few days ahead for dinner, or walk in for the market and a glass. Come for the rare natural-wine list where every bottle has a story and the kitchen keeps pace with the cellar.
Reserve a few days out, or walk in for brunch; the seasonal vegetable plates, a glass from the women-winemaker list, market bottles to go.
3.Kismet
Kramer and Hymanson's Los Feliz room where natural wine meets Middle-Eastern cooking — book it for the rotisserie chicken and an Arizona pet-nat.
Kismet, a few doors from Bar Covell on Hollywood Boulevard, is where natural wine meets one of the most-loved kitchens on the Eastside. Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson — also behind the Madcapra falafel stand — cook bright, vegetable-driven Middle-Eastern food, and their list is dominated by natural bottles from under-represented regions: New York, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico alongside Central Europe, the former Yugoslavia and the Levant. The freekeh fritters, the turmeric-stained rotisserie chicken and the grain bowls are the order. The room is airy and tiled, busy from lunch to late. Book a few days ahead. Come for the natural list with the most adventurous geography in the city, attached to food worth the trip on its own.
Reserve a few days out; the rotisserie chicken, the freekeh fritters, a pour from a region you cannot place, a grain bowl to share.
4.Found Oyster
The East Hollywood oyster bar pouring natural wine under a disco ball — go for a dozen Kumamotos and a chilled funky red.
Found Oyster, a tiny seafood counter on Fountain Avenue, is what happens when a New England oyster shack is run by people who love natural wine. Chef Ari Kolender shucks pristine West and East Coast oysters under a disco ball, alongside a smoked-fish dip, a lobster roll and crudo, and pours a short, sharp list of low-intervention bottles built for shellfish — high-acid whites, skin-contact, the kind of chilled red that surprises people. It seats barely two dozen, takes no reservations and runs a line most nights. Put your name down and drink a glass on the sidewalk while you wait. Come for the best oyster-and-natural-wine pairing in Los Angeles, in the loudest small room on this list.
No booking — put your name down and wait with a glass; a dozen oysters, the smoked-fish dip, a high-acid white or chilled red.
5.Tabula Rasa
The Thai Town bar with 200 natural bottles and a real kitchen — go for the late hours and a glass you've never heard of.
Tabula Rasa, on a workaday block of Hollywood Boulevard in Thai Town, is the neighborhood natural wine bar at its best: unpretentious, deep and open late. Running since 2016, it pours around twenty wines by the glass and keeps a 200-bottle list that rewards the curious, with a full kitchen sending out snacks and small plates well past midnight on weekends. The crowd is local, the lighting low, the prices fair. There is a back patio for warm nights and a rotating by-the-glass list that turns over fast. No reservations; it is a walk-in, sit-at-the-bar kind of place. Come for the late-night natural-wine bar where the staff will happily talk you into something strange.
No booking — walk in and sit at the bar; a glass off the rotating list, a bottle from the 200-deep cellar, late-night snacks, the back patio.
6.Bar Bandini
The Echo Park bar pouring California natural wine from the tap — go for the patio, the snacks, and a glass of skin-contact.
Bar Bandini, on Sunset Boulevard at the edge of Echo Park, makes a specific bet: an almost entirely Californian list, much of it poured straight from the tap. Named for John Fante's Arturo Bandini, it is a small, warm room with a vine-covered patio and a soundtrack of LA winemaking — kegs and bottles from the state's low-intervention growers, plus a handful of European ringers. The food is Italian and snacky — a board, a focaccia, something marinated — built to keep you drinking rather than to anchor a meal. It is the most local list in the city, a useful corrective to the European-heavy natural-wine canon. No reservations; the patio is the move. Come for California natural wine on tap and a bar that bets on its own state.
No booking — head for the patio; a tap pour of California skin-contact, the focaccia, a snack board, a bottle to linger over.
7.All Time
The Los Feliz all-day restaurant with a wine room next door — go for the burger at lunch or natural pours at night.
All Time, a small all-day restaurant on Hillhurst Avenue in Los Feliz, is the most domestic entry on this list — a neighborhood room from Tyler and Ashley Wells (he co-founded Handsome Coffee) that feels like eating at the home of friends with very good taste in wine. The menu is short and seasonal, anchored by a much-loved burger and simple, produce-led Californian plates, and the natural-leaning list runs alongside. Next door, the All Time Wine Room — set in a former flower shop — does the bar-and-snacks version, with toasts, conserva and a rotating glass pour. Book the restaurant for a meal, walk into the wine room for a glass. Come for natural wine in the most low-key, lived-in setting in the city.
Reserve the restaurant or walk into the wine room; the burger, the seasonal plates, a tuna-conserva toast, a rotating natural pour.
How Los Angeles drinks natural wine
Los Angeles became a natural wine capital from the bottom up. Bottle shops and bars — Bar Covell, then a wave of others — built lists around small importers and California's own low-intervention growers years before the rest of the country paid attention, and the city's farmers-market cooking gave those wines an obvious partner. The result is a scene with almost no formality: you drink funky, cloudy, sometimes fizzy wine in candlelit rooms and on patios, and nobody makes it precious. The geography is heavily Eastside — Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Echo Park, East Hollywood and Thai Town hold nearly all the dedicated rooms.
A few mechanics. Most of these places take no reservations and run on walk-ins, so go early or late and expect to wait at the small rooms like Found Oyster. Glasses run roughly $14–18 and bottles from about $50; the lists turn over constantly, so the move is to describe what you like rather than hunt for a label. Several rooms double as bottle shops — buy a bottle to take home, or pay a small corkage to drink it there. For wine-first stops, Silver Lake's Psychic Wines runs a Wednesday tasting with focaccia and cheese. The full neighborhood map is in the Los Angeles dining guide.
Where not to look for it
Skip these mismatches
The natural-wine bars, if you want a polished, conventional cellar. These lists are built on small, variable, low-intervention bottles — funk, cloudiness and bottle-to-bottle variation are the point, not flaws. If you want first-growth Bordeaux and a sommelier in a suit, a steakhouse or tasting-menu cellar is the room, not Bar Covell or Bar Bandini.
Closed rooms, so you are not chasing ghosts. Alimento, Zach Pollack's Silver Lake Italian with its deep low-intervention list, closed in September 2024, and the Hollywood restaurant Horses was temporarily closed as of mid-2026 — both still circulate on old "best natural wine" lists. Check before you go, and lean on the seven rooms above, all confirmed open in June 2026.
Frequently asked
Where is the best natural wine in Los Angeles?
Bar Covell in Los Feliz is the city's original and still its benchmark — a no-list bar where you describe what you like and the bartender pours from a deep low-intervention cellar. For natural wine with a serious kitchen, Botanica in Silver Lake has run an all-natural list since 2017, and Kismet pairs its Middle-Eastern cooking with bottles from under-represented regions. Found Oyster pours natural wine with East Coast seafood, and Bar Bandini serves California natural wine straight from the tap.
What is natural wine?
Natural wine is made with minimal intervention: organically or biodynamically farmed grapes, fermented with wild yeasts, and bottled with little or no added sulphur and no industrial additives or heavy filtration. The result is often cloudier, funkier and more variable than conventional wine — sometimes lightly fizzy, sometimes oxidative. Los Angeles became one of America's natural wine capitals because its restaurants and bottle shops championed small, independent and frequently women-led producers long before the rest of the country caught on.
Do natural wine bars in LA serve food?
Most do, and several are full restaurants. Botanica, Kismet and All Time are kitchens first, with natural wine lists attached, while Found Oyster is an oyster bar. Bar Bandini and Tabula Rasa lean bar but serve real snacks — Italian plates at Bandini, a rotating menu at Tabula Rasa. Bar Covell keeps it to charcuterie, cheese and a famous truffle-cheese toast. Only the bottle shops, like Psychic Wines in Silver Lake, are wine-first with limited food.
Which LA neighborhoods are best for natural wine?
The Eastside is the heart of it. Los Feliz has Bar Covell, Kismet and All Time within a few blocks; Silver Lake has Botanica and the Psychic Wines shop; East Hollywood and Thai Town hold Found Oyster and Tabula Rasa; and Echo Park has Bar Bandini. You can build an entire natural-wine crawl on the Eastside without crossing the river. The Westside has fewer dedicated spots — Venice and Santa Monica restaurants carry natural bottles, but the scene is concentrated east of Hollywood.
Are LA natural wine bars expensive?
They are mid-range by fine-dining standards. Expect glasses around $14–18 and bottles from roughly $50 at the bars, with most lists topping out well below a conventional fine-dining wine program. Food is à la carte and shareable, so a couple can drink and eat well for $60–90 a head. The restaurants with kitchens — Botanica, Kismet, All Time, Found Oyster — run higher once you order a full meal, but none approaches the cost of a tasting-menu room.
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