Sparkling pop-up Fiz brings bubbles to Soho

Fizz is great. Be it a celebratory glass of Champers or a post-work Prosecco, you’d be hard pushed to find a person or a situation it doesn’t suit.

However, for all the love that sparkling wine gets, rarely are its many styles explored in the way that the numerous varieties and vintages of reds, whites and oranges might be.

That’s where Fiz comes in. A bright idea of a bar in more ways than one, it has taken over a section of Brewer Street’s neon-filled Lights of Soho and will stay until end of summer serving a vast array of sparkling wines and food to match.

The menu spans classic serves from France and Italy, a pink Cava, a couple of exquisite English options and — best of all — a host of bottles which come under the ‘something a little different’ category.

Black Queen from Australia, a sparkling red, is rich and fruity with hints of cherry. An unfiltered Italian is electric with citrus. There is a refined natural wine from Austria, and bubbles from Brazil.

In the name of exploration, the vast majority of these are available by the glass, with prices starting at £4.50 and plenty more options around the £6 mark.

A particularly reasonably priced food menu stretches from snacks of olives and paprika-roast almonds to sharing boards of cheeses and cured meats, via buns filled with the likes of shredded duck, soft pork belly and pastrami with pickles.

You could swing by the bar for a sip on your way out, but really it’s a place to settle in and enjoy a sparkling evening of tipsy discovery. Just be warned that the usual bottomless bubbles we’ve come used to might never taste the same again.