Well Walthamstow village was delightful but I was let down a bit by the food in this high end restautant. Steak tartar starter was nice but overpowered by the added sauce. And the bread was pretty plain. The buttered chicken main just didn’t work for me in a burger. Couldn’t really eat it as a burger as it was too heavy. And fried chicken basically was basic. Pretty good service although a different waiter every few inured but everyone was friendly.
Tanya D.
Rating des Ortes: 5 London, United Kingdom
I had SUCH a lovely Saturday night dinner here with my boyfriend — we had to go a bit early as they were fully booked after 7pm, but it was so worth it. The food, from the crustini with mascerpone and chorizo jam starter, the main course duck with dauphinoise potatoes and 5 spice spinach, to the dessert(we shared nectarine crumble and chocolate brownie with raspberry sorbet) were just absolutely delicious — perfect portion sizes, a damned good bottle of affordable Malbec, and affable service thrown in to boot. We just had a super pleasant evening here, highly recommend it. Nice atmosphere, great décor, super cute garden where they grow their own veggies. I’m eager to back and try them for brunch one day! Thanks staff at Eat17, great night: D
Mike S.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
I ate here again today(the Queens Arms being unexpectedly closed). The food appears to have improved. The Gnocchi with peas, broad beans and fennel was delicious but fell down on portion size being a bit mean for 11.50. Service was friendly and attentive. Would I go back? Yes but not if the Queens Arms was open. The latter is still by far the best place on Orford Road.
Nicola P.
Rating des Ortes: 4 Surrey, United Kingdom
Busy Sunday lunchtime. I had an amazing barley risotto. The sauce on the scallops was a bit gloopy. I also had crostini with mascarpone and chorizo jam. My new favourite thing, the chorizo jam. I bought some in Waitrose yesterday. Delicious ! We’d been turned away the night before but the guy remembered us the next day and thanked us for coming back. Nice touch.
Sarah F.
Rating des Ortes: 5 London, United Kingdom
My other half suggested this place and I agreed to go along as we were in the area. My interest didn’t really begin until I saw the menu. There were many options on there which I would have happily ordered which doesn’t happen often. The chicken wings were delish as was my sea bream main and my fella said it was one of the best burgers he’d ever had. The chips were yummy, so much so I pinched about 10 of them!!! We followed the ‘when in Rome’ rule and opted for desert as many other guests had. I punted for the blood orange triffle and him the banana sticky toffee pudding. Both were scrumptious and we literally scraped our plates clean. Last but not least, the staff are amazing. Really friendly and chatty without any air of inconvenience you get when you take so long salivating over the menu you forget to choose the drink you want and have to ask the waitress to please give you two more mins. An incredibly pleasant experience that I hope to repeat soon!!! Nom!
Essi S.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
Living in Walthamstow I feel like it’s kind of my civic duty to visit all the interesting restaurants and bars in my area and report back here about them ;) The one place I wanted to visit for a while was Eat 17 and even though it’s located a bit out off view it was definitely worth the visit. Eat 17 is a pub, but a really nice one. The restaurant is divided in two sections, the bar and lounge area and the dining area. I went in on a Saturday afternoon so the place was packed but I did manage to get a table from the lounge and that worked fine for me. One very big negative was that they close the place from 3pm until 6pm on a Saturday, so when I walked in it was probably 2.15pm so I didn’t have much time to enjoy my lunch. Shame. The time I did spend there I really enjoyed. I had good service and I liked the food. I went with the classic Fish & Chips, but it was a really top notch, high quality Fish & Chips. I also ordered some nice local craft beer(Meantime Pilsner if my memory serves me right) which was absolutely spot on and went well with my dish! The decorations and the general look and feel of the place is modern, maybe even border-line hipster but I like it. It’s a cool place and hopefully more places like that will find their way to Walthamstow in the near future.
Hazel L.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
Tasty fayre in the heart of Walthamstow Village. I think that Eat 17 prices are pretty reasonable. For me the food is fine, some dishes are pretty good, others are relatively mediocre. So yes, a bit of a mixed bag. However, the overall experience was pretty good. Make sure you book in nice and early — it gets full weeks in advance.
Alice S.
Rating des Ortes: 5 London, United Kingdom
Superbly textured, slightly sweet buttermilk fried chicken burger – yes. Perfectly crisp, no nonsense chips – yes. Half bottle of delightful Spanish white – yes. Heck, even the salty, garlicky-crusted bread is a big yes. Above all, we were served by a young guy who had lived in E17 all his life, and was very passionate about telling us how it has changed, though Eat 17 still had a lot of the same local clientele. We called ahead to get seated for 10pm on a Monday – they kept the kitchen open just for us, and didn’t usher us out even though we were the last diners by a long shot. Attentive and engaging service – yes. Crab and avocado salad starter was fresh and generously portioned, scallops starter was too good for my friend to share, and his hake and chorizo fish of the day main was salty but tasty. We didn’t have the nerve to ask for dessert, but the banana sticky toffee pudding seems worth coming back for, along with eating everything I had all over again. Good bottled beer selection, too. Because why not, while you’re being so darn excellent.
Larissa R.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
This is a good local place, for good local people. And by ‘good local people’, I mean ex-hipsters who have moved to Walthamstow to have babies. Eat 17 is a proper proprietor of gentrified food, with its trifecta of ‘Bs’: 1. brunch 2. burgers 3. bacon Eat 17 does other things, of course, but all you really have to know is that it’s doing modern British food, and it’s doing it well. And that it sells jam with bacon in it. You might say, ‘Yeah, well my local proprietor of gentrified food is great!’ and you’d be right, my friend. It probably is. Is Eat 17 better? Possibly. Should you make a special trip to Walthamstow? Perhaps not. Would you like this place if you lived nearby? Absolutely. …so long as you’re in your 30s, have or are thinking about having children, and like the idea of bacon jam.
Lloyd S.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
Took a trip out East to catch up with sone friends tgat have recently bought property out this way, decided to hit«the village» for some brunch and ended up in Eat 17. Coming from fairly central we are a bit spoilt for choice when it comes to decent brunch places, and it would be unfair to say this place is on the same level. However the venue is very welcoming and the manager(possibly owner) was chatty. The service was ok, we had to request ordered items twice that had been forgotten and eventually they gave us a coffee for free(nice touch) The menu seemed to be a blend of traditional London café and modern brunch restaurant, I went for a full English! It was pretty good not too greasy and a decent mix of the traditional components I.e. egg, bacon, hash browns, beans… etc. Unfortunately(for me) my bacon was a quarter of the portion everyone else had and over cooked. The coffee was actually very good! The final bill was below that of somewhere central and seemed fair for what we had. I like this place and I would definitely recommend it to people that are in the area.
Ben R.
Rating des Ortes: 5 London, United Kingdom
Superb brunch! The eggs benedict were very good but eclipsed by the smokey chorizo beans with poached egg. Great value, great service and a great location! We will be back.
Samantha M.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
This is one of those hidden gems in the heart of Walthamstow. I’ve heard it can be very hard to get a table here but we were walking past early afternoon one Sunday and thought we’d try our luck for a spot of lunch. We got a table immediately. The Sunday roasts all around us looked delicious and smelled amazing but we opted for something a little different — the Buttermilk Fried Chicken Burger. First off, because i’m a major chips fan i’ll talk about them. They’re big and chunky which is definitely the best kind. They’re light and fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside. So they’re pretty much perfect(in my opinion!) The burger itself was a pretty good size, it was a very interesting mix of flavours, not what I was expecting, but good/different. I’d certainly get it again! The atmosphere was definitely more families and gossipy women(ha!) but it was nice enough. It has a really nice vibe to it. It feels much nicer than many restaurants in Walthamstow. The service was great and very quick and the menu had plenty of options to choose from. I do wish they would specify food allergies like gluten free etc because that makes dining in places much harder if you don’t know what you can eat! Otherwise I really liked this place and I will certainly be back.
Lily D.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
It can be difficult to get a table here during busy periods, but the food is definitely worth the wait. The staff are friendly and always try to accomodate you at the bar for a quick bite if the restaurant is packed. The menu has become more noticeably American over the past couple of years, with more focus on food like burgers and pulled pork. Everything is always delicious!
Stephp
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
One of my favs. Restaurant is classy and atmosphere is casual. Staff is friendly and helpful. Food is delicious. They couldn’t do it better. I like how they make fish there. But everything else is also good. Love going with family.
Dru H.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
Visited this place today. Pretty good food. I had the duck with a salad and bread. I don’t usually eat salad but I thought I would try this one. Was very nice and the bread was good too. I ordered a rhubarb crumble which I wasn’t so keen on, but it was okay. The place is really high quality in general with a nice bar. It is a bit pricey though but the staff are quite polite. Next door they have an extension of the restaurant where they sell pizza. I have to try it one day. The free wifi is a great addition too, I’m always a fan of a place that has free wifi! Anyway, jokes aside, I would recommend this place definitely.
Ianran
Rating des Ortes: 5 London, United Kingdom
I love Eat 17. The food is near to fine dining levels. Everything is Fresh, Tasty and well cooked. The restaurant itself is quite small but looks really nice and is very clean. All of the above comes at a premium though and you will pay more that other local places but then the quality is so much better than them. This is a great place to visit!
Sonia F.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
Eat 17 is full of yummy mummies during the day, and the food seems to be more style over substance. Very over-priced for the quality of the food, but unfortunately now that The Lock has closed, there is nothing of a similar calibre.
Mr_omn
Rating des Ortes: 5 London, United Kingdom
Went here a few weeks ago for the first time to meet a friend for lunch. When i said, «I’ll meet you in Walthamstow» I could hear the uncertainty in her voice when she said«OK“but when I steered her past the tube station and towards ‘the village’ I noticed the apprehension disappear. We arrived a few minutes after 12 and it was very quiet, waiting staff very friendly and the menu more extensive than either of us imagined. In the end we both plumped for the burger which was presented on a slate tile with a modest portion of double fried chips and came with cheese and bacon as standard with an onion chutney. I was delicious and ensured a return visit. For quality of food and service it was priced very reasonably and after 90 minutes when we left we realised it was packed. Yes, lots of yummy mummy’s and their kids but I kinda liked that.
T J.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
Not being an expert on what Walthamstow has to offer I was told this was the place to go and a dept do duly followed. Now, maybe I’m just fussy, but having been spoilt by the similarly priced, highly competitive gastropubs in Hackney this place didn’t quite meet my standards. When the food arrived it was nice enough, perfectly edible(although my steak was not great) and reasonably sized portions. However, I find it hard to remember the food, it was the way it was served that I remember. Everything was«Hey look at me, I’m quirky!» Bread — served in a mini plant pot. It looked like a cactus. Peculiar. Chips — served in mini deep fat fryer baskets. OK then. Mains — several were served in frying pans. Now I’m all for bring hot sizzling mexican food out on a fiery, spitting hunk of metal, but this food was clearly arranged in the frying pan AFTER it had been cooked, umm the point being? Also, some food was served on bread boards which I find annoying as everything falls off onto my lap(but maybe that’s just me). All of which leads me to the question… What’s so wrong with plates? Surely they have stood the test of time. As humans evolved from eating with their fingers, so too did the things we ate them off and the plate now reigns supreme. I’m sure I’ll go back sometime on another dept do and maybe it won’t bother me so much next time. Some people probably think«Oooh, this is soo quirky, I like it» whereas I’m just a grumpy traditionalist. I’d be interested to hear what others think.
Thegru
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
Okay, so the names a bit punny and the décor at first glance is a bit nineties gastro-pubby, all stripped floors and bright lights. But you know something? This place works. Happily, unlike all those nineties gastro-pubs, they don’t cram you in. There are large tables, well spaced, giving you the aural room to chat without having to shout. And the service is cooly professional too. But, you know, whatever. Because you don’t come here for the décor. Or even the service. You come here for the food. The well-cooked, gut-bustingly large portions of scrumptious food. I had three wild boar sausages the size of small bananas on a mountain of mustard mash. They were cooked just right — all moist, meaty and flavourful with the right amount of fat. And they’re sourced from the butcher(The East London Sausage Co) across the road. They obviously know a good thing when they see it. Slow cooked pork shoulder on a mound of cabbage just fell into soft slivers of meat at the merest wave of a fork. It was delicious — and properly flavoured too — none of this flavourless lean factory-farmed rubbish here. Not to forget the veggie stuff either. They went beyond the restaurant standard pasta to serve some interesting looking food. But unless you’re a dedicated vegetarian, the meat is the real star here. Overall, very good value, large portions of well cooked, well-sourced and tasty unpretentious grub.