Gram Bangla in Tower Hamlets

Over the years like much of East London - brick Lane has been transformed into a hip - arty neighbourhood where Asian food courts and Street food have crowded out the old hole in the wall Bangladeshi eateries. Gram Bangla remains a gem - tucked at the deep end, a no frills outlet for those looking for authentic, home style Bangla cuisine. Undoubtedly- the high point is the medley of “Bhortas”.

Bhortas from a Bangladeshi place where they had a two foot cut out of the king following a royal visit. A shared plate of great stuff. Friendly and good value.

Sweetes staff and most amazing food felt lik my mums Curry i wiuld say bedt Bangladeshi restaurant will come back soon 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

The food there was amazing, everything was authentic, giving the same feeling as the food your mum would make for you and the staff were very friendly.

Excellent tasty food. Impeccable service. Great choice of variety foods there are loads to choose from. Definitely recommend to anyone to try.

If you are looking for the traditional village food this is your spot. No kids menu. No biryani (only on Friday’s). Although the food was average when we ate it we later struggled with a tummy ache and felt unwell for a few days after. Service was average too.

The food is about average. Some dishes are good, but most are average. The boal was quite bland. The keski bortha is disgusting, it had (aquatic) insects in it that are caught alongside the fish and frozen into blocks. When it's defrosted, you're meant to clean the fish and get rid of any bits of plants/insects. I found 3 insects in one portion of bortha, I discarded the rest. The portion sizes/prices are too high for locals, which is why the restaurant was full of yuppies who don't know the difference between good and bad Bangla food.

Overpriced Small piece of ilish, tiny roll of alo vorta and 1 portions of rice £17 honestly sucks Not a good experience and unfortunately not recommended

Regular visitor to Gram Bangla, Online menu prices inaccurate, took five people’s to take my order face to face. As Ramadan wanted deshi food. Ordered curry’s Beef Satkora,, Duck and Bortha plata all to do deshi ifter at home, failed to give Beef Satkora, instead give lamé curry. Bortha to hot 🥵 Such waste of money. Duck curry was very good. Spent £35. Two dish such waste of money. Called restaurant just got apologise no offers to rectify mistake. During Ramadan 1st visit takeaway ordered two curry moka with belpohi, goul with uri bechi, moka with belpohi went off as old left over curry, 😟, sold, very disappointed.

Proper iftar you need to visit graam bangla best Iftar Alhamdulillah. My friend treat me for Iftar I must say it was amazing

First time here...friendly service, relaxed atmosphere & great food. I liked it so much, will be going back again very soon.

The best bangladeshi restaurant in London i would recommend The food is like mums cooking special vorta . Good service..................

Great Chittol fish dish and borta, tasty and quick. Good service and staff really were attentive. Would go again to try new dishes.

Overall pretty poor. The restsurant kept asking us to scan a QR and give review. We declined. Limited menu, poor presentation and bland

Such an amazing selection of authentic dishes that really give you a taste of Indian fine dining cuisine. Really recommend for everyone any anyone who wants done good traditional and exciting food in the area. Proper restaurant that you can relax and enjoy your night here. Recommend this place totally! Thanks!

Cute Bangladeshi restaurant tucked away in London’s Brick Lane. The food was very authentic and home-style Bangladeshi food, the portions were hearty, and the quality of the dishes was excellent. Service was great, and the staff went out of their way to make sure all of us were enjoying our meal. Would definitely recommend for anyone craving authentic Bangladeshi food.

Great little authentic Bangladeshi restaurant, way better than the standard Anglo Indian food found everywhere else on the street.

Gram Bangla one of the best Bangladeshi restaurants in uk.. I have been so many time .. there ilish Mach is the best and shatkora with lam.. highly recommended

The best bangladeshi restaurant in London i would recommend The food is like mums cooking special vorta

Very good food ! And really friendly host Ehsan ! The best bangladesh food. Open kitchen where you can choose what you want to eat. Must go ! Grtz Rob and Lars

I have known this establishment for two decades -- sadly I seemed to know more about its history and presence in the neighbourhood than the current staff do. What has changed in the last decade is that the interior is more swish (and sterile?) and even has a massive artwork by a female artist. The restaurant manager is female -- this was not a place where a lot of females would walk in alone to eat but now it is. The staff are friendly and hospitable but not in a personalized way -- I miss that. The food choices were great, I particularly appreciated all the vegetarian choices -- mostly in the form of "bhorta". It is far more expensive than I remembered it (last visit in 2018) and it seems to have a new USP -- swish, generic restaurant-type ambience for all to sample real Bangla/Sylheti food. BUT it has lost its unique neighbourhood-gathering-place kind of feel. That's my nostalgia talking.

Graam Bangla is super cozy, feels and tastes just like home. The giant mural is gorgeous! There's a display of the food items towards the back of the store. This was a great way to get an idea of what the different curries look like - how much jhol etc. All the service people were super friendly and accommodating! The food itself was unmatched! I haven't eaten food this good outside of my own home in a LONG time. Not all of the bhartas are vegetarian (some are fish). I simply asked for a bharta platter with only veggies. The bhartas with daal and bhat really hit the spot. Some of the bhartas are fairly spicy, but that's just how I like it. It was a really good variety and they all tasted amazing. I also had the greens and aloo and they both tasted just like home. It was a flavor bomb! I'm coming back when I'm back in London, no doubt.

Excellente cuisine traditionnelle, nous avons testé 5 plats différents afin de goûter à tout, et tout était bon ! Attention,...

So I had heard that Brick Lane in London had good Indian/Bangladeshi cuisine to try. I will say that maybe I just went at a particular busy time (Friday evening), but many of the restaurants had people standing in front of the door, trying to...

We went there to try some authentic Bangladeshi food. Fantastic food, highly recommended. We will try again.

Customer service spot on Food absolutely perfect for your authentic bangladeshi food this is the place to go. Keep it up lads

WOW, so many reminders of the mother the land. Everything is a must try. We had the mix bortha, Rohu fish fry, beef curry. Will be coming back soon.

Simply incredible!! Try everything becaus is authentic . And i remember it was ok about prices. If you willl regret it i will give you a free meal in Romania🥰😂

This is a must-try restaurant where I find the real Bangladeshi flavour. Daal is the game changer. I tried Vorta, which was delicious.

Everything looked good! I had the lentil soup and a fish and egg dish over rice, with salad. The dal soup was exceptional. I’ve never had the fish and egg dish anywhere else so can’t compare it directly, but it was delicious, with complex, layered...

My friends and I have eaten here over the years and they have improved greatly. Recently a friend visiting from America chose to come back 3 times during their stay. If you're looking for genuine home cooked Sylheti-style Bangladeshi dishes, Graam Bangla and a few...

Very disappointed in everything I’ve ordered from gram Bangal They advertise them self they make best Bortha (Chatni) in London (uk) I ordered all the bhorta it’s so tasteless and made it from simply all tasted like same Hutki bortha was so modified from Jar...

Lovely little restaurant down Brick Lane, seems to be family run, nice & friendly but the food was delicious. It's authentic desi food cooked on the bone, fabulous flavours that build as you eat. £7.50 for the curry doesn't break the bank. Fully recommended.

This restaurant is nasty and dishonest. We were charged £19 for 2 small pieces of hielsa and rice. When I checked the next day, I found out this should have been £12. The fish made us sick the next day as it was the last...

This is one place that doesn’t disappoint. The borthas are amazing as there curries are too. Extremely friendly staff and very clean.

Piensa en este lugar de 5 a 6 meses atrás. ¡Comida excepcional, auténtica y sencilla que me sorprendió por sus delicados sabores! ! Como no bangladeshi, ¡diría que este lugar tiene el punto de referencia de la comida de bangladeshi! !

Grateful for this authentic Bangladeshi Eatery to rebranded and reopened by young experienced entrepreneurs. Mouthwatering traditional Bangladeshi Bortha, fish and meat dishes not tasted since my Bangldesh trip to the Capital Dhaka. Worth a visit if you want a mesmerising taste in your mouth for...

Have been visiting Gram Bangla for over a decade and was sad to see that the staff member that I knew best had left for a change of career. But GB continues to delight -- it has re-invented its ambience in the now hipster neighbourhood...

Ninguna visita a Londres está completa sin una peregrinación a mi restaurante favorito. Disfruté de una gran comida, conseguí algunos para llevar a nuestro be & be para otra comida. También obtuve dos paquetes de regalo de jalebis para mis amigos.Fue alentador ver que este restaurante aún existía y florecía aunque la invasión de la nación inconformista Shoreditch es cada vez más evidente para mí después de haber regresado después de 13 meses.Tal vez sea apropiado que GB esté actualizando su imagen y se convierta en un patrocinador de las artes, pero (¡salud!) Que aún conserva su identidad única al centrarse en la diáspora bengalí.

I have visited this restaurant three weeks in a row. They have a spicy lentil snack there that I just love. Also the tea is great. I went on Friday afternoons 5-6 and it wasn't busy so my kids felt relaxed there.

Really enjoyed the good here, authentic and tasty will definitely go back without hesitation. Prices were very reasonable and you can tell the food was fresh.

Excelente sabor! Sizzling apetitosos picante curry. Me gusto este tipo de curry de vuelta en Dhaka, Bangladesh.Si quieres probar los curries de Bangladesh no adoptado a gusto británico y simplemente auténtico, entonces este es el más cercano que puedes conseguir. Este restaurante es preferido principalmente por nativos los bangladeshíes en el U. K y Europa.El ambiente es muy simple, pero lo suficientemente limpia.El personal es muy educado y servicial.Sin duda recomendaría probar

Este es uno de los muy pocos lugares en Brick Lane, donde se puede comer lo que supongo que para ser auténtica comida bengalí. Es totalmente diferente a todos los otros lugares cercanos, con la terrible ofertas gratis, cerveza, al vindaloo kormas poppadoms, etc. . Simplemente ve a la barra y el punto de salida, que de los muchos (principalmente peces) curry quieres y te lo calientan y lo trae en minutos. Mientras que muchos de los platos son bastante calientes, son todas ellas condimentadas.No es de lujo, no hay alcohol, pero es barato y absolutamente deliciosa!

Gram Bangla offers genuine home cooked authentic Bangladeshi dishes, Beef bhuna with bitter gourd, dry fish bhuna, onion bhaji and home cooked jilafi are excellent.

Normalmente te.. sobre el kilo para llevar después de una comida. Estos son hechos de jaggery jalebis especial (caña de azúcar sin refinar). Sólo se podían conseguir en restaurantes de la clase trabajadora en la India de mi juventud -no sabría dónde encontrar hoy.La cena de hoy por dos era fabuloso - y cuesta alrededor de 20 libras, incluyendo 500 gramos de jalebis ir.

foods were tasty but I am really concern about their cleanliness. All the food were cooked and stored in the chillier display. They just microwave it to serve. Price is cheap that could be reason of this quality

Cuando en Londres siempre intento para comer aquí y si he visitar familia y amigos me traen aquí también.

I m a cenar este restaurante el lunes con mi hermano y mokit vai . La comida es delicia. El personal r encantadora y servicial. Nos r probado muchos buffet indio, pero fue excepcional. Yo le Beck este restaurante

The food was amazing and friendly staff,Very nice and spicy well cooked. Still my favourite place on bricklane, recommend this place highly, might be small but the food is worth it.

Very tasty traditions home food.The place was a bit small, and not that extravagant as an eating place but food lived up my my standards.Will eat again....

Took a young friend for lunch this time. She is a fish aficionado. To our delight there were more fish options in the deli counter than I had ever seen before. Obviously we could not sample all of them but we were very pleased with everything that we tried.And my friend even got some to take away.A word of advice: the dessert has never been exciting here. It is worthwhile stepping out and getting dessert from a specialist sweet shop.

To begin with - this is not Bengali food, so anyone who is considering a visit here to look for food from what is now West Bengal, please don't waste your time.It's not even home-style Bangladeshi food, as many people here claim. The oil is over the top, the flavours all blend into each other and any vegetables in the food are overcooked to the point of being mushy.Disappointing.

There are many "me-too's" in Brick Lane now, touting authentic Bangla cusine -- some might be even better than GB but I like to be loyal to the establishment that started the tradition of real Bangla food in this neighbourhood.Today's dinner was fabulous once again -- three choices of fish that only people with a Bangla heritage would recognize. A very prompt and caring server made considered recommendations. We ate well and also got 4 items for take away -- at 32 pounds! (None of what we ate was cheap, mass-packaged stuff -- the fish was imported and all the sauces freshly made.)

Visited with family. Reasonable selection of traditional sylheti food. Reasonable price. Toilets very dated but clean. Better places on brick lane.

We visited Gram Bangla today, "discovering" it by accident while dodging all the people trying to lure us into the other restaurants around the Brick lane.We took the recommendations of the owner and were not disappointed, food was really good (a bit spicy for my taste, but that is just because i am not used to that) and the final price under £20 for two people was great as well.

I "discovered" Gram Bangla on a visit to London almost a decade ago. At that time it seemed to be the only establishment of its kind catering to the Bangladeshi population in the neighbourhood. I went back several times, told my friends in the UK and even in the USA about it -- and many visited the place and enjoyed the cuisine.Having not visited Brick Lane for at least 4 years I was wondering whether I would even find Gram Bangla and whether the food would live up to my memories of it. When I visited today I realized that there are several other establishments on the street that now purvey the "authentic" the way Gram Bangla once did. Gram Bangla's offerings have become more mainstream -- less variety and fewer offerings of obscure dishes known only to people of the region. When I had first visited the servers spoke only Bangla, and a certain dialect of Bangla. Today, our server spoke English -- a flawless version of the East End idiom.So it was not what it had once been but the tastes were still authentic -- we had two types of fish (carp and "boal"), spinach with prawns, a lovely daal and spicy chickpeas accompanied by two orders of rice -- all that food (plus dessert to take away) for under 30 pounds!For the adventurous eater and someone exposed to more than the average "Indian curry" this is a treat not to be missed while in London.

Most of the Indian restaurants are actually not for Indians. They are for people who are seeking food adventures. But this gem is actually meant for BD dwellers of London. Spot on deshi food.

I came across this little place as I was browsing brick lane. This is authentic Bangladeshi restaurant, the food is so much different than what you get in Indian restaurant .They have great selection of fish dish and it's packed with beautiful flavours. I liked the fried fish they call it mass biran (wow) and the staffs are friendly and help full. Will come back again

It's a pretty low-key kind of place, but the food is really interesting and tasty. Totally different to the standard curries you get in this country - this is proper Bangladeshi home cooking. We had a dish with tiny fish, one with fish roe and another with black chick peas. All this plus rice, chapatis, tea and a yoghurt-based dessert for less than twenty quid. It felt like I had stepped out of London to the other side of the world.

I was visit today wiht my family. We thought its may by good as we see on advertise on tv. But we totaly upset after having our meal! Food was cold and service like u eating on any low class resturent in bangladesh, but u paing in pound!! Anyway no chance to go back there again!!

Had a quick lunch here with a friend. I really liked the korai dish and the authentic supari at the end. Good for a quick bite for linch. Friendly staff with simple surroundings.

The Bangladeshi cafes on Brick Lane serve the more 'authentic' Bangladeshi/ home-style food in the area, and this one is a good example. The seats are intimate and cosy, it's quite colorful inside to sit, chat, have a quick meeting - they don't appear to mind much.