Good restaurants in the UK with nice US wines on their winelists!

Hello everyone.

I love eating out in the UK, but am want to go to places with a nice wine list, preferably with a few US wines on the winelist (not Gallo / Blossom Hill etc... wines that are a bit more upmarket!).

I'm a bit homesick too, and as I travel around the UK a bit, any suggestions outside the M25 also gratefully received.  Have eaten in too many average places and would like to support good restaurants with good winelists where possible!

Also interested in places that American's frequent, but this isn't the be all and end all!

Thanks for your help!

I'm sure you'll get lots of London recommendations from people who live in/near there, so I'll stick to the parts of the country I know better!

I live in Cornwall and recently went to The Gurnard's Head, after seeing it featured in a cookbook of recipes from the UK's top gastropubs. It was great! And they were showcasing California wines from Bonny Doon Vineyard!

I'm also a fan of The Hardwick in Abergavenny (Wales). Stephen Terry, the chef, is amazing! I see that he's going to be competing in The Great British Menu again this year and I'm already looking forward to his round. (You can see the wine list on the restaurant's web site.)

And I absolutely adore The Crown at Whitebrook, near Monmouth. It's been a Michelin-star restaurant for three years running, and you can really tell. The food is beyond fabulous - delicious, fresh, creative and beautifully presented. And they've won awards for their wine list.

I love wine and a good wine list is such a bonus for a restaurant.  I have noticed that you very rarely get good American/CA wines on wine lists here.  I think they are just expensive enough that once you add all the UK taxes on them...they just hit too high a price point for most lists on the Quality vs Price scale.

Anyway...Let me think about London and where I have taken clients out with good lists.  Coq d' Argent has a fab wine list.  But just limited on the US bottles and WAY overpriced if you ask me.  For instance They have the Frances Ford Coppola Cabernet Sauvignon Cask 1998 on the menu for 205 GBP.  That definitely falls in the "very special occassion" wine.  I couldn't even spend that on a client that spends over 500K per annum.

In general I find that the steakhouses tend to have good lists with a variety of wines in a range of prices.  I like the Gauchos chain.  There is a small chain of pubs in North London which has good food and decent wine.  Try googling the Orange Tree in Totteridge.  Or Bull and Bush in Hampstead. 
I can't think of anywhere that Americans tend to hang out.