Help in the middle of service: ask COENA from inside your iPad wine list
Stuck on your iPad wine list mid-service? Chat with COENA reaches the COENA team from inside the app. A person who knows the product replies, not a bot.
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A Silver Star for the wine list: Restaurant Popelier at Star Wine List of the Year Belgium 2026
Restaurant Popelier in Gooik won a Silver Star for Best Long List at Star Wine List of the Year Belgium 2026 — the category for wine lists of more than 600 references. What that takes, and why two juries this season judged the wine list as an object in its own right.
iPad Wine List: The Complete Guide for Restaurants & Hotels
A printed wine list lies the moment the first bottle sells. It keeps showing a vintage that’s gone, a price that changed last week, a bottle the sommelier pulled from the cellar that same morning. The guest reads it, chooses from it, and the server has to correct it out loud, at the table, on […]
Digital wine list software for restaurants: the 2026 options compared
An honest comparison of the digital wine list platforms available to restaurants and hotels in 2026 – COENA, Uncorkd, SommOne, Vinipad, Winevizer and Somm’it – by approach, venue type and what each is actually built to do.
“Paper is finished.” How L’Atelier Windsor opened with an iPad wine list from day one.
Sébastien Périé, Restaurant Director, L’Atelier Windsor — Luxembourg L’Atelier Windsor is an auberge in Luxembourg City — thirty-odd covers, cooking Sébastien Périé calls “unplugged”: classical, precise, rooted in Escoffier, executed without shortcuts. When the restaurant opened in 2019, Sébastien made one decision that surprised a few people. There would be no paper wine list. Only […]
The Generation That Killed Wine? Or the One We Never Learned to Serve
The statistic keeps circulating: people under 35 drink less wine, care less about it, buy less of it. The conclusion we draw, almost reflexively, is always the same. It’s the young people’s fault. It’s a comfortable explanation. It spares everyone else the trouble of looking in the mirror. The Wrong Trial Blaming a generation for […]
Cellar software or wine list? What COENA and Vinify actually solve
A fair comparison of two tools that look alike on a feature list and behave nothing alike on the floor. Every few months a sommelier tells us the same thing: “I’ve been looking at two or three of these, and honestly they all seem to do the same stuff.” It’s a reasonable thing to say. […]
Grands Formats: Large-Format Bottles, Done Right
A magnum on the list is a statement. A jeroboam on the table is an event. Cellars built around prestige cuvées and vertical collections don’t stop at 75cl — and now, neither does COENA. Every large format, properly presented Most digital wine lists treat volume as an afterthought: a glass, a half-bottle, a bottle. Anything […]
Digital Wine List at the Restaurant: COENA vs Winevizer
The digital wine list has become a standard in many restaurants and hotels, improving the guest experience while simplifying day-to-day management. Among the solutions available, COENA stands apart from Winevizer with a radically different approach — both in the experience at the table and in the operational features. Here’s the breakdown. Digital wine list: […]
A wine list on iPad doesn’t replace the sommeliers. It enhances them
The tool doesn’t replace the sommelier. It enhances them. Helga Piagno, Sommelier — Restaurant Helen, Paris Restaurant Helen sits at 3 rue Berryer in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Its identity is singular: *Le Culte du Poisson* — the cult of fish. Michelin-starred, precise, built around an unwavering reverence for the sea and the people […]