Provender Restaurant

Name: Provender Restaurant
Address: 17 High St., London, England, United Kingdom
Telephone: +442085303050
Price range: $$
Rating: 5

2033 votes

#653 of 37862 restaurants in London

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Why choose this French bistro? Explore its classic dishes, welcoming atmosphere and good-value prix fixe menu.

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French and Vegetarian cuisines are on the menu at this restaurant. Provender Restaurant offers you perfectly cooked cheese soufflés, beet salads and French onion soup. Most guests recommend trying good tarte tatin, trifle and soufflés. Get your meal started with delicious house wine, French beer or white wine. Great chocolate frappe, tea or juice are worth trying here.

The well-trained staff at this place can demonstrate how much they value their customers. The nice service is something these restaurateurs care about. You will be pleasantly surprised by the spectacular decor. This spot received the Bib Gourmand award for tasty meals at reasonable prices.

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Bib Gourmand: good quality, good value cooking.

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‘A little piece of France in Wanstead’ is the tagline at this busy and welcoming neighbourhood bistro – and it certainly delivers on the promise. The extensive menu is a roll-call of classic French dishes from escargots and soupe à l’oignon to coq au vin and steak frites. They prove to be impressively executed too, providing satisfying flavours at fair prices... More info

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(7.3/10)

Google

(4.6/5)

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(4.4/5)

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(4.7/5)

432

Opentable

(4.5/5)

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Chris Kyprianou 2 months ago on Google

An excellent French restaurant offering a Prix Fixe menu of either 2 course for £20 or 24.50 for 3 at lunchtime. A choice of 4 items for each course, one per course with an additional supplement. Fresh and freshly cooked tasty food, although wine starting at £6 for a small house wine starts to increase your bill. What irritates me most however and it’s just been normalised and accepted everywhere, why on earth is an automatic 12.5% service added? It’s not just this fine restaurant, it’s become a plague in the UK! A bill that should have been £200, is suddenly £225! I counted the number of times our waiter came to the table and added a couple more just for good measure. About 20 times being generous. That’s to say £1.25 extra every time the waiter came TO DO THEIR JOB! Imagine our group of 5 had eaten à la carte, had ordered bottles of wine instead of glasses.. the bill could easily have reached £300+, the service charge even more, yet the service is exactly the same. In Spain, Germany and certainly in cities I’ve visited in the south of France there is no service charge at all. You leave what you feel is appropriate. The employer pays the staff, not the customer! Imagine someone in M and S looks after you when buy a new bra or a pair of shoes or goes that step further in the store, do you pay extra? Or a flight attendant on a three hour flight where food is served..do you tip them? Or a school teacher who does a particularly engaging lesson…Thanks Miss, here’s £1, I really enjoyed that! Or a firefighter who errr, puts out a fire at your home? NO! BECAUSE THAT’S YOUR JOB! I encourage this restaurant to stop this nonsense of adding indiscriminate service charge and let the customer decide. Food: 5 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 4 Price per person: £30–40 Recommended dishes: Arancini

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Jordan Giles 11 months ago on Google

Provender Restaurant in Wanstead is a French bistro gem — authentic flavours, warm atmosphere, and Michelin‑recognised value. Provender sits on 17 High Street, Wanstead, London E11 2AA, and has become a beloved neighbourhood spot. It’s described as a “little piece of France in Wanstead”, offering classic French bourgeois bistro cooking. Menu Highlights French classics: escargots, soupe à l’oignon, coq au vin, steak frites. Prix fixe menu: excellent value, available Tuesday–Thursday all day, and Friday–Saturday at lunch. Seasonal specials: dishes change with the market, keeping the menu fresh. Vegetarian & gluten‑free options: clearly marked, making it accessible. Desserts: tarte tatin, crème brûlée, and other French favourites. Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

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Martin 3 years ago on Restaurant Guru

Finding a decent restaurant outside central London, but still in London, is tricky, but this bistro is a real find, and so close to home for us. A large selection of dishes, very tasty, colourful and interesting. Reasonably priced, prix fixe menu available. Very civilised! We will be back again and again!

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