Brawn in Tower Hamlets

Lovely restaurant near Columbia Road. Great place if you’re up for sharing. We tried most of the dishes on the menu and they were all extremely tasty and original. I would definitely recommend the quail, veal bavette and lamb chops. The sommelier was super helpful and gave us great recommendations. I will go back soon!

Service, atmosphere and most importantly the food are all the best you'll get. Try as many dishes as you can and share them. Everyone who works at Brawn clearly cares what, and how, you are served. Utter, utter perfection that's familiar but different each time.

Good food, a bit overpriced but great oysters!

Amazing place - every meal I have there is more and more impressive.

Great food, service and atmosphere. Anchovies, rabbit, black pudding and squid… everything was great!! Great music too😊

Maybe we caught it on a bad day? But we found the food missed the mark a bit--the pasta / ragu a bit oily (but still good), the natural wine fine but nothing too spectacular. The atmosphere and service are great, and would likely come back again to give it a second go, but there wasn't anything that really stood out for the first visit.

Maybe we caught it on a bad day? But we found the food missed the mark a bit--the pasta / ragu a bit oily (but still good), the natural wine fine but nothing too spectacular. The atmosphere and service are great, and would likely come back again to give it a second go, but there wasn't anything that really stood out for the first visit.

Delicious food and really amazing value relative to restaurants of its calibre in London

Couldn't recommend enough! Delicious!

Gorgeous, cozy restaurant in East London serving dishes that can be shared but also kept all to oneself should you prefer to do so. Top flavours, a super friendly and chill service and all round amazing atmosphere (really!). Wine selection was good too, although I didn’t enjoy the Gamay but no biggie. Not far from the infamous Brick Lane, right next to a small park, this is a little nugget!

One of the best restaurants I ever tried in London, and I don’t mean that lightly. Booked to celebrate a special occasion and it left us speechless. Loved the cozy atmosphere, the service was just lovely (wish I got the name of our waitress, she was so great) and the food is just fantastic. It’s hard to chose as everything was flawless, but our favourites were the anchovies, the brill and the grilled squid with black pudding was the winner 🥇 Thanks to the whole team for such a memorable time!

It was good but not THAT good, maybe it was the hype I felt for it before… SERVICE - 5/5, just point on. Happy, easy to talk to and just really service minded. FOOD - 3/5, the Agnolotti was tasteless and I wasn’t especially fond of the black pudding with octopus (didn’t play well in my view)..but then the lamb sweetbread was amazing. PRICE - 3/5, just the fact that you need to pay 4,5£ for bread should render a 1/5..but generally, the prices are on the high end and then the food and flavours should really be top notch ATMOSPHERE - 3/5, ok place with nice wibes, but really nothing special.

One of the most incredible meals I’ve ever ate

Best restaurant in east London. Always delivers Amazing wine list - a bit on the natural side - served by staff the know their stuff Lovely spot for lunch

I visited Friday night as a walk-in and they accommodated me at the bar, incredibly kind service, mostly the wine selection and the tiramisu are divine

Tasty & high quality food, although I’d say not too many options for pescatarians/vegetarians! Our server was super helpful in answering our questions. Personally the highlights were the wine, bread, and dessert! Perhaps a bit overpriced but overall a nice experience!

An incredible meal. Try and get a table at the back next to the kitchen if you can to see the chefs at work. 10/10 all round.

I miss the times when I could just pop up to Brawn and grab a table. It’s a great neighborhood restaurant, in that you could go several times a week and always find something to fit your mood (European? They have gourgeres, cold cuts, changing pasta, meat and fish dishes, excellent appetizers, nice natural wine list…). It only suffers the Groucho problem: nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded. But if you can plan ahead and book, totally worth it.

Highly recommend, great vibes, great staff, great variety of dishes.

Black pudding squid dish - (how does one make black pudding taste like that?) Had to be the best meal I’ve ever had in a restaurant, every bite was sublime. I thought the salt and pepper grinders were nice ornaments on the table as they didn’t need to be touched.

Questo delizioso locale in Columbia Road mi ha conquistata. L’ambiente è confortevole e rilassato, il personale attento ed i piatti davvero buoni. Non cerco la cucina italiana a Londra ma se la trovo per caso e mi fa sentire a casa allora so che ne è valsa la pena. Gli agnolotti sono stati un vero e proprio comfort food. Le animelle e la tarte tatin sono tra le mie pietanze preferite in assoluto! Non potevo chiedere di meglio.

Great dinner choice on my trip to London. Highlight was the Baccala (sp?), perfectly satisfying with fried parsley (which I need to try at home now). Wonderful ambiance as well.

Fantastic restaurant with extensive wine list. Small plate style with the crab and squid being stars of the show. Tiramisu was also out of this world. Service was great too, would definitely return.

Brawn is possibly one of the restaurants I’ll highly recommend in London. Food is great, so is atmosphere & service though I must say it will appeal more to the younger crowd who prefer a more casual ambience. Portions tend to be small & prices not cheap.

No cohesion between meals, just good Italian/ French meals but too expensive for what it is and the attention brought in each meal is low. - - The plate of charcuterie is excellent, but no bread salad or anything brought with it (about 7 tranches that's it but of top quality) for 20£ - interesting wine list from France that is different from classic bordeaux &Bourgogne - lamb Chop is excellent but... nothing with it? Some tomato sauce and ONE vegetable, no carbs or Veggies, just meet and sauce. Quality is high, but the meals are somewhat missing something evetytime. Very good deserts though. 150£ for two people is on the higher end here for what was brought.

Such a cozy place. We enjoyed it very much. Charcuterie £20 - you can see how fatty those slices in the picture. I've seen pictures that looks like it's pure fat. It's rich and melt in your mouth. Pair great with our red wine that's slightly sweet but I would dare to get a second slice. Lucky 4 of us shared Oyster £4 each - small but very refreshing. Doesn't wow us but it's was good Baccala £12 - fish in a paste form with cheese cracker/cake on the side. It sounded weird but think of it like tuna salad on a salty cracker but a more sophisticated taste. A bit too salty tho Mozzarella £17 - the leafy greens on the sound was very interesting and gave the fish a new dimension. Very refreshing. Crab £18 - such a small portion. The crab has very mild taste so amongst all the salty dishes, this doesn't stand out that much. But you can taste the quality of the ingredients. Clams £17 - yummy. Cooked in a tomato-y sauce with some barley type of grains. Still on the more salty side but still manageable Angolotti £15 - small ravioli with meat stuff in the inside. Feels like a wonton soup to me but really really really salty. If it's not that salty, I think we would have loved it. Pappardelle £22 - typical ragu pasta dish. Tasty. Black pudding with squid £29 - star of the show. Absolutely delicious. Bit pricey for the portion tho. Lamb neck £32 - yummy yummy. Slightly pink on the inside. Our waitstaff was great but the wine guy was not helpful at all.

Been to Brawn many times over the last 15 years. Service/atmosphere good as always, but sorry to say the cooking is nowhere near the past levels of greatness. Basically now it is very expensive but bang average ‘phoned in’ dated in Italian cuisine.

Overall a good date night dinner place. Found it a little pretentious, the food sounded fancier (and more costly) than it was tasty. A vast majority of the dishes were fish/seafood. Service wasn't very attentive, even though we were right next to the station with people swarming around us most of the meal. Good, not great.

I wrote a review about Brawn some time ago but now I have to rectify it. I've been at Brawn twice in the past weeks and i found everything is excessively salty as if the chef fears so that there isn't enough flavor in the ingredients that he uses and overwhelms everything with salt Spaghetti with pesto and artichokes, crab, pappardelle with ragu were all too salty to me. I couldn't taste at all the artichokes. I hope it is just a temporary blip

Fantastic place, food and experience. Fully recommend

Amazing place with a great atmosphere, specially the sitting area next to the kitchen is very nice. Nice well balanced dishes with some exciting combinations. The black pudding and squid dish was absolutely banging. Service was also nice and laidback. value for money+

Très bonne expérience, belle salle, calme, claire, bon Tchi. Service discret mais attentionné. Cuisine inventive et sincère, produits de qualité. Prix bien en rapport avec la qualité.

This place offers a fantastic atmosphere with friendly and polite staff. We started with multiple appetizers to share, particularly enjoyed the Cantabrian anchovies and Baccalà mantecato. For our main courses, we tried the Tamworth pork chop and the Brill with Chanterelles, both exceptionally delicious and exquisitely delicate in taste. I personally felt the pork could have been cooked a little less, but I understand the caution in a restaurant when cooking Pork meat. To conclude, we indulged in a delightful tiramisu and a cheese plate accompanied by quince. It was a wonderful evening, and I must mention their superb wine list added to the experience.

The food was mediocre at best with two of the three entrees being over-seasoned . We had the ragu tagliatelle, Tamworth pork chop and venison. The tagliatelle was good but the meat tasted very salty and similarly for the venison, it came out like a meat ball which was unexpected and it just tasted very heavy in terms of the seasoning and we could not finish the dish. However on the other hand, the pork chop was cooked perfectly. Maybe it was due to the dishes that we ordered, but we did not feel the same way as the other reviews.

Had been wanting to try Brawn for a long time due to its ubiquity on respected food reviews/lists. The experience in my reality was sadly, incredibly forgettable and not even close to matching the hype/adoration. It was two fold in our first waiter, who seemingly was the manager, being incredibly dismissive and condescending in his approach to our asking what was best on the menu (“it’s all good. And you better hurry up otherwise I’ll have to tell the kitchen you’re going to take your time”), overall being brisk and adding a large pinch of snobbery to the whole affair. Unnecessary, no? Secondly the food - mains were nice and flavoursome, however the starters were incredibly salty and coleslaw esque. Plus both my friends experienced stomach issues later that night. Not worth it in my/our opinion and was a shame to find it out in this way.

i was very excited about my visit to brawn yet a bit disappointed with the food for the price.

Fantastic evening, food was delicious service was excellent, would highly recommend.

Came here with my girlfriend to celebrate our anniversary and it blew us both away. Excellent service from Lauren who was very friendly and helpful and guided us through our dinner. Incredible food worth making a trip for. Very innovative and beautifully done with a mix of fresh, bold and delicate flavours all beautifully well balanced. A never ending wine list with so many fantastic bottles to chose from especially for a natural wine enjoyer like myself. Immaculate dining scene and awesome to see the kitchen team doing their thing. Very inspiring for a young chef like myself aspiring to achieve that level of skill and dedication one day.

Nice lively atmosphere and some of the dishes were excellent. Main courses underwhelming. Interesting wine list.

First time at the restaurant as heard lot of good things & it definitely did not disappoint. Waiters/waitresses were all very welcoming and lovey and the food was excellent & delicious ;) Cant wait to visit again.

We aim to go to Brawn in December as part of our traditional festive build up and we love it there.. so this was not our first time, we are returning guests. This time we were sat in the back of the restaurant near the kitchen and it was lovely, I didn’t even know this room existed. As always food was delicious, with some repeat items which are menu staples from years gone and of course new items too. We had a lovely waitress who was very attentive and made some fantastic recommendations - thank you for making our experience so enjoyable. We’ll be back!

Unfortunate experience as it came highly recommended to us from close friends. We arrived on quiet weekday lunch and were only offered bar seating on stools when the place was obviously empty and full of tables that could easily have accommodated us. It was rather awkward to eat on stools when tables were free during our meal. Waiter liked his drink as we saw from the bar counter. Food was too salty. Very disappointed had high expectations.

Traveling one hour to east London only to find posher staff and people than west London. Unfortunately they don’t even get the names of dishes right, with Pappardelle being actually Tagliatelle (even Tesco knows the difference), overcooked and bland. Snails drowned in garlic a sad end because were actually fresh. Extensive wine list sadly impossible to try because, the obnoxious sommelier “don’t believe in pairing”, I wonder what his role is than, mistreat the guests I guess. Ended up with a Pinot Noir priced 60£ that cost 6£ to make. Never again.

Bonne cuisine, en salle malheureusement débordé et le resto d’ouvrir..

Amazing food, amazing mood and setting. The staff is super helpful and friendly. We had a great night at Brawn.

Brawn is always a great place due to its more neighbourhood atmosphere and welcoming service.

Amazing all over. Don’t usually leave reviews but this was over the the top amazing. Food delicious, wine great as well, and service even better with special mention to the waitress offering us cheeky slices of bread to finish up the sauce (couldn’t just leave it on the plate) 11/10

I finally made it here and oh boy it wasn't a disappointment! Extra point for the waitress stopping me licking the plates and offer me bread instead. That's what I call service.

Yummy curry and soup noodles! A must place for winter.

We had a lovely evening in a very nice, ambient and chilled restaurant. We were slightly disappointed by the food, it was certainly nice, but we were expecting more for what we paid.

excellent food and service, my most favourite restaurant!

I think the food was alright but very overpriced. Apart from this it was all good

Delicious meal and fantastic service. Will definitely come back!

Great food, staff, and service We visit London a few times a year and make Brawn a food stop every visit.

Consistent menu and great service. Vibe is very warm neighborhoody restaurant

Came back to Brawn to try out their new dishes and had a great experience as always we had croustade of escargot with parsley root puree, gougères topped with pecorino (this is one of Brawn's classics), artichoke and radicchio salad, tamworth pork chop with puntarelle alla romana, mushroom tagliatelle (this was nothing special) and finally the best for last... amalfi lemon tart d which was incredible, even better than the one at Trullo.

The food was incredible - such fresh produce! And the wine was amazing too. Service was great and I’ll definitely be back. Highly recommend!

It was our last day in London and so glad we booked this place for our last meal. Amazing food. How did you guys cook such perfect duck! And other dishes such as the pork and snails were outstanding too. Lovely experience.

Amazing food and service, I always return to Brawn.

Second time here (one year later than the first) and it was even better. Well executed dishes bursting with flavor in a great ambience. I’m not a big natty wine fan but the servers were quick to oblige with any other spirit. Service was great and the ambience is wonderful.

Super atmos, food, service as usual. Great natural wine selections and amazing pudding. too.

Amazing food, wine and service, would go back again!

Highly recommend it.Really nice place with chill vibes, good food, good portions and the service was on point. Prices like in any other good restaurant.

good mood, best aesthetics,good taste , highly recommend ,

Yet again the food was fantastic and well thought through, great place and great feel to the restaurant

Definitely a must in London. Everything from the vibe to the food and ambiance is excellent. Their menu changes frequently and I have never been disappointed. Make sure to check out this neighborhood gem and book plenty in advance.

beautiful restaurant with a separate vegetarian/vegan menu which is always great to see!

Just lovely. Excellent food, friendly staff, all very knowledgeable. Great experience.

Quite extraordinary. Flawless. Walk over broken glass if you must.

Came here last night. Fantastic. The food, the service, the place itself - everything was just so good. Definitely will be back.

Absolutely delicious!! Great service. I would definitely recommend.

Immaculate vibes, food was great, highly recommend to anybody

The food was incredible, the service as well, and the vibe was really cool. I’m definitely coming back!

Food was excellent and the staff knowledgable. Such a great restaurant.

Great restaurant with excellent food and service.

Great staff and service, delicious food and overall great value for money. Highly recommend

I love this place! Beautiful, laid back, super friendly and professional staff and of course, delicious food.

Never disappoints! Great food, environment and great staff.

Sad to say that I was really looking forward to trying Brawn but the rude waiter couldn’t make up for the lukewarm steak, lack of vegetable options, or attitude we were served.

Delicious ham and cheese were highlights. Brusque wine waiter put a damper on the evening

We were blown away by this restaurant. The food and drinks were great, the ambience was just right, the staff exceptionally knowledgeable and friendly. A great find!

Outstanding food, the eel was absolutely amazing, great vibes

We had an absolutely beautiful dinner at Brawn last night. The food was so delicious, the ambience was gorgeous and our waiter Ben was great! Will definitely be back. Super impressed!

Our waiter was so knowledgeable and went the extra mile to get us the best bottle of wine to go with our meal. The lamb sweetbreads were definitely a menu highlight. Will return!

A very overpriced restaurant, having in mind the quantity of food served in each portion. We didn't have a great experience with the wine choice as well, being asked to explain better why we didn't like the first wine we chose (as foreigners, we explained our lack of technical vocabulary; the waiter was indifferent to it). And our table didn't have the proper attention it should have had. We were a bit invisible there. So no, no recommendation on our part, unfortunately.

Simply delicious and well presented food, charming service and fun vibes

Once took my mum here when she visited from Australia, and now we head here every time she returns - she loves it! For good reason: the food is thoughtfully prepared with excellent wine to match. Service is also of a high standard. On the corner of Colombia Rd is also a perfect location to watch the world go by.

great ambience as always. menu changes often but they nailed it last night. the pasta dish with squid was excellent with great spice level and creativity in mincing squid to create a ragu style sauce.

Food that sings! the very best ingredients celebrated wonderfully, brought together simply and skilfully. Un obtrusive masterful service.

Incredible food. Knowledgeable and friendly staff. A lovely setting. Excellent wine menu and pairing advice. Feels special.

Exceptional service, I really feel like the staff go above and beyond. Food was excellent but didn’t blow me away on any level. Would definitely recommend for a high quality casual dining experience.

I've just discovered my new favourite restaurant in London.

We absolutely loved it! Delicious food & great atmosphere, thank you all

We celebrated our 5 wedding anniversary here and the staff were very attentive and lovely. Even wished us a happy anniversary that was a lovely touch. As regard to the food. The oysters are a must try, very delicious and fresh. The starters were delicious, We really enjoyed our dishes but unfortunately the taste factor went down hill from there. The dishes just lacked flavour. Maybe it was what we picked but it was a little bit of a disappointment especially for the price.

By far the best restaurant of greater london and the Uk.

Food perfect as always, but the staff really went the extra mile for us. A lovely welcome, superb wine recommendations, and genuine hospitality. Thank you.

Fantastic food and really accommodating for us as we are both lactose intolerant

Wonderful restaurant-best in London-would recommended very highly

Lovely space, bright & airy. Nice music, candles in tables. Atmosphere was great. Staff lovely, our server was very friendly, great prompt service. The food tasted delicious - scallop ceviche, duck, seabass with mussels. Dishes were beautifully presented too. Only comment was the portion size. The scallop ceviche seemed like one or two very small scallops diced, priced at £16. We got this to share & felt miniscule, especially because it was so 😋. The seabass main priced at £30 was also small, with a few mussels & beans as accomplishments, didn't feel like a complete dish unfortunately.

So lovely - our waiter had brilliant knowledge about the food and such enthusiasm for Brawn. It made all the difference. Would 10/10 recommend a trip!