Niche | All Day Dining

Gluten free heaven for the two coeliacs in our party, and pretty good food in its own right. Unfortunately white gluten free bread just isn’t as good as the glutinous stuff, but their Parmesan doughnuts were still tasty.
Do not recommend the raspberry coconut blancmange. Almost all of it was left uneaten. Chocolate tart was quite good though.

I have been once before and I would have said decent things about the food.
Today I went in with two other moms and three prams at 1130am. The restaurant was completely empty but we were told we could not bring the prams to a table. We could not move a table together to accommodate prams, nothing was possible. They would rather us leave then give them some business. We were in shock to be turned away so rudely from an empty restaurant. We came across the street to ‘The Gate’ restaurant and have been very generously accommodated! We will not be returning to Niche.

I don’t know how I’ve stayed in the dark about this place. A friend of mine found it and since our meal there I haven’t stopped thinking about it. The entire menu is gluten free and they’re definitely pretty clued up on food intolerances and allergies. The menu is vast and definitely has something for everyone. The chicken burger is absolutely delicious, though next time I’m desperate to try the fried chicken. Their desserts too… the chocolate brownie which is warm enough to melt in your mouth… I can’t even describe how good it is! Amazing!
The waiter we had was a little weird and kept trying to convince us to buy everything else on the menu, but aside from that this place is my new favourite place to eat in London. I can’t wait to take more and more people there and eat more and more brownie.

Couple of highlights: it’s gluten free (although it’s not that obvious from the food), good highlighting of vegetarian/​vegan/​lacto-​vegetarian on the menu, and possibly the best part — they pay their staff the London living wage.
Portions were pretty decent sized, and all really tasty… although they lost a star for their attentiveness (even if they were cute).
Will definitely be coming back for more.

Rude service. They rudely refused to seat me as a party of one, despite having several small tables open. Ate elsewhere, and after finishing, the restaurant was still nearly empty. Bizarre.

It’s been a long while since a cheap and cheerful Thai restaurant occupied this location. It was always packed and the obvious choice for a quick meal before or after a visit to Sadler’s Wells. There is now a great choice of restaurants in walking distance to the theatre, and Niche does a good job positioning itself as the pre-​theatre choice with a special pre-​theatre menu. This includes a starter and a main for £16. A bit of a shame when you prefer dessert as a second course — it starts getting expensive when you add it all together …
I think you probably get a feeling of better value in winter when pies and bangers and mash are a more attractive option. The summer choices are basically salads. I went for the superfood one which was OK, just OK, which is actually very disappointing. If you follow my reviews you know that I am an absolute sucker for a good salad bar, and I’ve munched my way through a mountain of superfoods over the years.
This one reminded me of the mixed salads at Pizza Express where you always get the exact same number of tomato wedges and cucumber slices. The Niche superfood salad was basically a mount of lettuce leaves with a small-​ish number of avocado, squash and feta pieces arranged around its edges. I didn’t even recognise the quinoa as it was sprinkled sparingly on top rendering it tasteless. The dressing seemed to consist of lemon juice only. This is the sort of salad that makes you feel good for being healthy in the old-​fashioned healthfood store sense — eating for function rather than fun.
The starter was the opposite as I opted for a basket of deep fried cheese balls. They weren’t actually very cheesy but tasty enough. Not quite sure what else they contained as the restaurant is famously gluten free.
Having not finished my greens (defeated by those lettuce leaves), I needed some sweet comfort. Treacle tart, cheese cake and something chocolately all sounded tempting enough but ice cream won out on one of the year’s hottest days — the salted caramel variety was delicious.
I will probably come again, on a cold night, to gorge on all the greasy foods. Hopefully by then staff have got the pre-​theatre service ethic down to a T — it’s a bit annoying having to repeatedly call them over when it should be obvious you’re on a schedule …

Nice atmosphere and good service. However, the food for brunch was only okay. The Eggs Benedict were over-​poached, with too much and too thick hollandaise that overpowered the rest of the dish.

We stopped for an impromptu lunch which turned into brunch before the theatre at sadlers well. Staff were a bit hectic even though the place wasn’t full. We ended up ordering eggs benedict and scrambled eggs. All the meals were delicious and the eggs were golden yellow. Yum! We also had a cheeky bottle of proseco. They didn’t have the type we ordered so they substituted it for a better quality one (no complaints!) but only charged us for the one we originally ordered. Overall great place to have a treat before the theatre.

I wouldn’t waste your time, staff are pretty rude, and what place does bookings for breakfast??? It was half empty… Many better options!

Nice little place off the beaten track in islington that serves locally sourced produce. Had the Victorian sausages which were delicious. The humous was also tastey! Great value with the taste card!

Had pre-​theater dinner last night with a friend. To start off, the host was friendly, a nice (and shocking!) development in London. I got the superfood salad for £12. A mix of broccoli, sprouts, slivered carrots, feta cheese and greens (I may be missing something). It was a heaping portion and they kindly followed my instructions to put the dressing-​olive oil– on the side. That being said £12 is still a bit pricey for salad! It was good, not fantastic. My friend had the goat cheese salad with raspberry sauce and figs. She liked it much. We each had a glass of the house white– a Portuguese vinho branco that was a perfect balance between sweet and dry.

I went to Niche before we went to a performance to a performance at Sadler’s Wells.
Nice general British food to catch as you’re passing by.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to travel here, nor would I plan on catching up with friends at Niche.
It is a good place to go to before a performance as it’s so close.
My suggestions to the restaurant would be to increase their diversity in the food and wine list.

Located right next to Sadler’s Wells Dancer Theater, it is a natural choice for a pre-​theater quick bite. It is actually quite cute on its own right with big windows and clean white furniture, occupying a street corner. It is a bakery as well, so you can find quiche and pies as the main offerings. The menu is quite British and I found it a bit hard to find items that I would like to have since I wasn’t too hungry. I settled on a salad with goat cheese on toast. It was really delicious with two generous pieces of lightly roasted goat cheese on warm toast. I will definitely order it again next time I come to Sadler’s Wells

This is a very nice restaurant! Great superfood salad!