Bag-in-box wine pop-up BIB returns to London

Well-priced wine and small plates are heading for Dalston

Thinking inside the box: Weino London’s Ilia Poulos and Kirsty Tinkler at their month-long B.I.B. pop up wine bar last year

Adrian Lourie

Ben Norum11 April 2016

Bag-in-box wine pop-up BIB Taproom is returning to London for a six month residency, following a much shorter run late last year.

The bar, which serves only wine that is packaged and served from a plastic bag set in a cardboard box, will open on May 4 at Brunswick East Coffee in Stoke Newington. It will once again focus on natural, biodynamic and low-intervention wines.

This time round it will also offer food, with small plates being created by chef Harry Kaufman who previously worked at Lyle’s in Shoreditch and Stoke Newington’s Rubedo.

Speaking about the concept, BIB founder Kirsty Tinkler said: “Natural wine often tends to be expensive but it shouldn’t be something that’s exclusive — serving wine from a box allows us to offer it cheaper. The eco credentials of bag in box also makes it a natural extension of biodynamic, organic and natural wines.”