Restaurant • Cafe • Wanstead

We're all mad here.

Brunch, bennies and cake by day. Mediterranean and Spanish tapas, the grill and cocktails from 6pm. All served in a room where the teacups are on the walls and the clocks never quite agree.

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In WansteadIt's always tea-time.

The Mad & Chef dining room: a ceiling of hanging foliage and white flowers, rattan lanterns and the striped awning over the counter

Turkish eggs with chilli butter and garlic yoghurt

Through the looking glass

One room, two moods.

Come in the morning for eggs and a pot of tea. Come back on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night and the same tables fill up with tapas, grilled lamb and cocktails.

A Full English breakfast with bacon, hash brown, beans in a copper pot and poached eggs

By day

The Cafe

Big breakfasts, Turkish eggs, bennies, sourdough bruschettas, omelettes, buttermilk pancakes and sandwiches. Coffee and homemade cakes at the counter.

The day menu

Mix grill of lamb chops, köfte and chicken on a blue patterned platter with grilled flatbread

Thu–Sat from 6pm

The Restaurant

Mediterranean and Spanish tapas to share, lamb and chicken from the grill, sea bass, seafood linguine and gourmet burgers, with sixteen cocktails and a short wine list.

The evening menu

Eat me

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Turkish Eggs

Poached eggs, spinach tarator, dukkah, tahini

Full English

Cumberland sausage, bacon, hash brown, house beans

Bruschetta Bolognese

Homemade bolognese, sourdough, poached eggs

Classic Turkish Breakfast

Feta, halloumi, sucuk, honey, börek

Chicken Casserole

Stone-bowl chicken under melted cheese

Seafood Linguine

Mussels, prawns, calamari, salmon, clams

Mix Grill

Lamb chops, köfte, chicken & lamb fillet

Lubina a la Plancha

Sea bass, asparagus risotto, balsamic

Down the rabbit hole

A dining room drawn from Wonderland.

Teapots pour themselves across the walls. Alice walks past the window, top hats hang from the picture rails and the pocket watches all tell different times. Under a ceiling of hanging leaves and white blossom, it is a room that is hard not to smile in.

Our story

Dining room with black-and-white Wonderland murals of teapots, teacups and Alice above wooden tables

Wall lettering reading “We’re all mad here” beside bronze monkey wall lamps

A round table in the corner under a mural of Alice and a striped awning window

“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Mad & Chef terrace under a black-and-white striped awning, with planters of red flowers and a blue sky

Outside

A mad tea party, al fresco.

Bistro tables in bottle green and chairs in black-and-white weave, under the striped awning and among the flowers. Ideal for a long breakfast or a spritz on a warm evening.

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A red coupe cocktail with an orange twist and an amber cocktail on the rocks

Drink me

Cocktails curiouser and curiouser.

Don't Get in the Muddle£12Hendrick's, lime, cucumber, prosecco
Pornstar Martini£11Vanilla vodka, Passoã, passion fruit, prosecco shot
Crazy Apple Pie£12Vodka, apple, lime, cinnamon, egg white
Negroni Sbagliato£11Campari, Martini Rosso, prosecco

All drinks

Two of the Mad & Chef team, one in a chef’s jacket, outside the restaurant under the M&C sign

The & Chef

Mad about the room. Serious about the food.

The madness is all in the decor. In the kitchen, the team cooks Mediterranean, Spanish and Turkish food with care, from Turkish eggs at breakfast to lamb from the grill at night.

Meet Mad & Chef

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Look for the black-and-white striped awning and the terrace full of flowers. Wanstead, East London.

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