Where to eat in Stratford
8 places
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Bamboo Mat
£££Nikkei cooking - the Japanese-Peruvian tradition - which is a genuinely unexpected thing to find in Stratford and the reason to skip the chains.
Barge East
£££A 1985 Dutch barge sailed over and permanently moored on the River Lea, with a garden alongside it and the Olympic Park skyline behind.
Berberè
££An Italian chain that takes sourdough fermentation seriously, and routinely rated among the best pizza in London - not the sort of thing Stratford is assumed to have.
Bread Street Kitchen Stratford
£££The most serious kitchen at the gateway to Westfield, and the one place here that works for a proper dinner rather than a shopping break.
CRATE Brewery
££Hackney Wick's first craft brewery, in a former print factory on the canal, making the beer and the pizza in the same building.
Santi
££East Village's own Italian rather than a Westfield unit, doing pizza and pasta for the people who actually live in the athletes' village.
The Cow
££The sit-down alternative to the Westfield food court, with a terrace - which in Stratford is a genuinely short list.
If everything else is full
Reliable rather than remarkable. These are chains — worth knowing about when you need somewhere open, not worth a journey.
All Star Lanes
££Fried chicken and mac and cheese inside a bowling alley - not a food destination, but the answer when the table includes teenagers.