MICHELIN Guide’s Point Of View

A welcoming and busy neighbourhood bistro, ‘A little piece of France in Wanstead’ is the tagline at this busy and welcoming neighbourhood bistro – and they certainly deliver it…..


I tried London's cheapest Michelin restaurant where you can get lunch for £15 and it was life changing'

Provender gave me the best dining experience of my life, writes Lea Dzifa Seeberg….


Best French restaurants in London, from L’Escargot to Hélène Darroze at The Connaught From three-Michelin-starred temples of haute cuisine to neighbourhood bistros, Ben McCormack goes à la française This hard-working café bar-cum bistro stays open from lunch until late, offering Wanstead locals prix-fixe lunches (three courses £17.95).


This neighbourhood café-brasserie in Wanstead “can be relied on to please and delight”, as it has for a decade under veteran restaurateur Christophe Huber and his team – “lovely people, consistently professional and kind”.…..


Time Out says (1 to 100 best restaurant in London)

A contemporary French bistro in leafy Wanstead. Doubling up as a neighbourhood café-bar and bourgeois bistro, Provender is an agreeably informal asset in leafy Wanstead, serving up petit dejeuner, prix-fixe lunch deals, plats du jour and Sunday roasts as well as a rolling roster of continental treats.


Provender sits on an important East London ley line. To the south lie Wanstead Flats, where the footballing stars of tomorrow forge their skills in the tempering fire of Sunday kickabouts; to the north, Snaresbrook Magistrates’ Court, where many a career has crumbled to ash after a domestic dust-up or nightclub fracas...