Bright in Hackney

Visited here on Friday evening and it totally exceeded my expectations. Could not fault the service we received at all, everybody serving was super friendly and professional. Took the time to go through appropriate dishes for my allergies too. The brown butter yoghurt was absolutely sublime we ordered two portions! All of the food was gorgeous and I would recommend to anybody. Really lovely atmosphere and I loved the decor in the restaurant. Thanks for making my friends birthday dinner so fab!

4 of us dined here on a busy Saturday night. Our service was excellent - friendly and attentive. My stand out dishes were the beef tartare, the penelle, the smoked eel potato salad and the pizza like starter. The wines were a little on the funky side for me but it was a fabulous evening and we left very happy

Never experienced such bad service before We arrived 10 minutes in advance, we were ‘told’ to have a drink somewhere else. The people in front of us were allowed to sit at the bar, no problem as the restaurant was full. After arriving at 9:35 PM, 20 minutes after we reserved, they still had to clean and serve the table. We were not ‘allowed’ to sit at the table and had to wait in a corridor where it was overcrowded. The servant/manager/owner or whatever gave anything but a welcome and hospitable feeling. They acted arrogant and unkind, we had to be happy to be able to sit here, never experienced this before. Very bad service, the person in question- short black hair with glasses, very unpleasant. Do not recommend this place. go to the place next door: Mare street market, friendly staff there!

I have been coming to Bright for years now as it's my local and I quite like this place. I particularly love their wine selection and the fact that they allow dogs in their high seating area. The food is not bad either. Alas, if you are a vegetarian, you are usually stuck with the same old options that rarely change and always consist of a pasta main. Please! You can do better than that.

The root of this operation being wine, the wine list is of course very interesting and also not badly priced for London, but does the food live up to the drinks? Well, in part. The menu features several appealing dishes to share. The first ones we got were impressive: a superb gazpacho with peach, the delicious and rare to see "panelle" (a Sicilian type chickpea fritters), some lovely raw vegetables with a tasty tahini. So far, full marks. Then a couple of slightly duff dishes. A pancetta salamata was a bit stringy and the accompanying fine beans also had a strange texture. And pansotti (Ligurian pasta parcels) were severely undercooked -and we like our pasta al dente- and bland, with the advertised walnuts almost undetectable. A fregola with pork sausage divided opinions at the table, but I liked it, while the broth was not the most refined, the flavour was intense and the dish satisfying. All in all a good experience, thought I feel they could step up a notch. Food prices are on the high side for the simple cuisine but not unreasonable. Service is friednyl and well-meaning though not the most focused.

Treated to a meal here by my brother-in-law; his daugher is local and said this was "the best place around here". Friendly staff but very busy (Friday evening). Menu is rather confusing as it's supposed to be "small plates" but is laid out in a conventional style - prices are rather eye-popping for the "mains" (well over £30) but it's clear later that each main plate will feed around 3 people if supplementing with other smaller/side dishes etc: we had the guinea-fowl and iberico pork presa which was plenty, with around 5 "starter" plates between us. Food is very good quality and reminded me a lot of Moro years ago - i.e. a definite Spanish / med accent. We got out for around £70 each inc. service and wine, which is reasonable for food of this quality in London. Very buzzy / loud - not one for the starched tablecloth brigade.

Hands down cannot think of another place I would love to visit more than bright, one can say it brings a bright smile to my face whener I think of it. Gnocco Fritto is one the faves, pranws,s ham, mussels, corn with honey butter, I could go on and on, just got.

Not far from London fields, This is a place where having good time, eating good quality food in a friendly environment. I recommend the oyster! An explosion of flavours

Absolutely delicious food choices and very friendly and helpful staff. Great for sharing plates and tidy atmosphere.

Really great food and really friendly service. The tortelli was a standout dish for us along with the stuffed cabbage leaves

My daughter and I visited this restaurant. Cannot fault the food, wine or service. We sat at the bar and also enjoyed the atmosphere, music and restaurant design. Very cool and relaxed vibe which made for a pleasant evening. Thank you !

The food was, on the whole, fairly good, nothing exceptional and a bit bland but some nice ideas and presented well. The main issue I had was with the service and whilst I will concede that my group was not the easiest to serve with a variety of ages, tastes and expectations, I still feel that if you are a restaurant targeting and charging for a higher end of clientele then your staff need to be able to deal with higher expectations too. Our waiter, also a manager, attempted to indulge us but the frustration was clear to see on his face throughout the meal and when we had finished eating we had the bill unceremoniously dumped on our table with no option of coffee or digestif and were told in no uncertain terms that we needed to leave because the next booking needed the table. Another reviewer has mentioned the slow service and this was our experience too and when you have had to wait far too long for every course, it felt a bit much to be told we didn’t have time for coffee at the end. The waiter told us that this was because they were ‘very busy’ but IMO if you can’t handle a Saturday night during socially distanced times when you’re at half capacity then you really have no business running a restaurant

Really loved this place. The owner was magnificent. Food was good, altough not the broadest choice. The wine they proposed us was really good

Good food and lovely wine selections that are largely natural. Service is attentive and the small space is cozy.

Small restaurant in Hackney near Netil360, with a daily menu. If the squid sandwich is on yours, get it - it’s genuinely phenomenal, in that really good street food vein. Everything else was nice and the waiters were really friendly and attentive.

Il locale è semplice,minimalista,giovane e moderno Anche la cucina rispecchia queste caratteristiche perchè offre tanti piatti leggeri e gustosi Consiglio...

Food was beautifully presented with so many flavours going on. It's small plates so can be quite expensive if you want to try many dishes but we loved all of our choices, especially the anchovies which is something I wouldn't normally order. They have a...

My view of the food was made irrelevant due to their handling of what could and should have been a non-issue. Our plate of pasta had a hair in it (at the bottom, under the the food and wrong size/type for it to be ours)....

Nice restaurant with relaxed atmosphere and great cooking. See some of our best pics as we tried almost everything on the me u. Meat was our least favorite, not that it was bad or anything but other dishes are more interesting. Not the cheapest place...

Not totally sure about the reviews and the critics we read. Coming from Paris, it’s maybe because average level is quite high and that you have a lot of very very good places offering small plates and wines (Martin boire et manger / les deux...

Great, well prepared food. Lime slice based tacos! Whatever next! Tasted wonderful. Even the cabbage side order tasted great. Our fish was excellent and great mixture of texture and combined taste. Unusual wine selection of organic wines but good beer on tap

Maybe it’s because I’m visiting from a former colony and my tastes are unsophisticated; maybe I made the wrong choices as I heard the diners around me oohing and aahing but I found the food completely pretentious and awful. Our sweet, lovely waiter messed up...

Sat at the bar early one evening. Staff are Anglo-Australian and very friendly. The food is simple yet stunning. Totally delicious. Crudités, deep-fried pizza, coco beans and quail, home made chocolate.....all fabulous. Recommended.

I've always found the London restaurant scene fascinatingly humorous in that it can be clearly divided into three distinct categories. The first is the big ticket money pits, usually in Mayfair or Marylebone, styled like the kitchen from that velociraptor scene in Jurassic Park and...

Ordiniamo un paio di starter e poi una pasta e un piatto di pesce 🐟 purtroppo alcune cose non erano...

My second visit here and I absolutely loved it. It may sound cheesy, but the food here is, well, 'bright'. Incredible ingredients (those tomatoes!!!), deftly prepared and delivered by lovely staff. Everything we had was delicious. Will be back...

Muy en la línea de los restaurantes modernos londinenses, pocos platos con ideas originales y algunos altibajos. Vichyssoise con cangrejo...

Overall I liked this place, but I wouldn't quite put it in in my 'unmissable' bucket. Attractive modern venue, next to lively Mare St market and hip Netil and rooftop bar; Bright also has its own outdoor seating (looked more like for drinks but not...

We had delicious gurnard linguine and the katsu sando. The pork chop and asparagus dishes were just okay, felt a bit steep to charge £11 for a plate of asparagus and leaves so they should rethink some of their pricing. Service was really slow, we...