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— WELCOME TO PROVENDER WANSTEAD —
Provender Wanstead has been serving customers high quality French cuisine for over a decade. Over time we have evolved from an all-day café bistro to a classic restaurant – via a spell as a popular local takeaway during Covid. Today, we offer a focused menu based on exceptional ingredients and expert cooking, alongside an extensive list of carefully sourced (and personally sampled) French wines.
Needless to say, we place as much importance on our service as we do on our cooking. Our front of house team shares the same passion for good food and attention to detail and we aim to reflect this in your experience, whether you’re visiting us for a romantic dinner, a birthday celebration, or a family Sunday lunch.
“My mission is to cook French food better than the French, so customers are surprised when they find out the chef is English!” – Robin, Co-owner, Chef As a small independent restaurant co-owned by Daniele, our Maitre D’ and Robin, our head Chef, Provender is a direct reflection of our philosophy, our ideas, and of us. Provender is a place to come and meet, celebrate, catch up with friends, feel at home with the family and, above all, enjoy.
We look forward to serving you.
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…..
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...
“Typical French cuisine perfectly cooked” has won a solid reputation for this “great Wanstead local” – a traditional-ish Gallic bistro, with terrace. Veteran restaurateur Max Renzland, who founded it in 2011, stepped down in 2021, with no evident change in its performance.
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).
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….
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.
