La Compagnie, Centre Street
Wine bar · SoHo
249 Centre St, New York, NY 10013
Highlights
French-focused wine bar with extensive list & small plates
French-focused wine bar with extensive list & small plates
"There are a lot of offices in Soho, so you’d think there’d be a ton of places perfect for business drinks. Unfortunately, that’s not the case - but at least there’s La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels. As you can probably tell from the name, this bar is French, and has a large selection of wines (both French and otherwise). The space is as well-furnished as your average Soho loft, with a lot of comfortable chairs and little tables where you can sit with clients, and there’s a good Happy Hour you should take advantage of if you don’t have an unlimited budget." - bryan kim
"You can spend $3,595 on a bottle of Chevalier-Montrachet at this Soho spot, but you can also hang out at the bar and drink glass after glass of $14 Montepulciano like it’s your job and your manager is watching. There’s no wrong way to use La Compagnie, a candlelit wine bar that functions as the living room and default first-date spot for the neighborhood. The bottle list is exhaustive, there are plenty of wines by the glass, and the food menu has a short list of snacks like roasted prawns with burnt orange butter, an Basque cheesecake." - will hartman, bryan kim, willa moore, molly fitzpatrick, sonal shah
"It’s not socially acceptable (or advisable) to invite a first date to your living room. But it is more than acceptable to tell them to meet you at La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels, a Soho wine bar that feels like a very nice living room filled with tasteful wallpaper and velvet chairs. Share a few small plates at the bar or at one of the small candlelit tables." - team infatuation
"This is a French wine bar on the edge of Little Italy, and you’ll need to drink here after your parents drag you around Soho. There’s a menu with a lot of small things to eat (chorizo, burrata, etc.), and they do over 20 wines by the glass. It’s also pretty cool in here - like the apartment in Paris you don’t own." - bryan kim
"This is the best wine bar in the area, and not just because it has a fancy name. In addition to a large wine list (obviously), La Compagnie has tons of seating - whether you want to sit at the bar, at a small table, or gather a group around some couches in the back. The wallpaper also looks like a very cool science project, which is another plus." - katherine lewin, hillary reinsberg
