Reviews Granger & Co

Beautiful ambience to have delicious varieties of platters and drinks . The prices are reasonable, the staff is highly professional and friendly and the service is prompt and punctual as well.

Located very close to the diamond district of London, its situated in a lovely area. Ambience was awesome, nice service and good food. While there were not too many vegetarian options, whatever was there it was awesome. I tried their aubergine spaghetti with walnuts, peanuts, peppers and some greens. It was lip smacking and a huge portion.
You can pair it with any wine of your choice. 
Recommended for meeting up with friends or family. Its a got a very lively vibe.

I had heard a lot about this place and finally went there. Be sure to reach early or be ready to wait in a queue :)) it quite popular for Sunday brunches.

I had the avocado on sourdough bread with scrambled eggs and salmon. The avocado was super fresh and so was the salmon. I loved my creamy scrambled eggs and the chef happily made me an egg white only portion. Salmon was very fresh too and I savoured every bite of the whole plate swiping it clean.

And then enjoyed a latte made to perfection.

I must mention the heart warming hospitality which added a delight to the whole experience. I would definitely go back for more brunches at this place! Loved it.

Love the Grange eat here often my favourite dishes are the duck ask the chef for the rice on the plate as it soaks the sauce omg add the best crispy duck and a couple of glasses of wine and I’m very happy always and the staff are just lovely. Oh like chicken snitzel with a sweatcorn fritter side. Fab. Great atmosphere

Londoners love brunch and Granger & Co is quite the 'It' spot for just that. It's got one of those 'you can't go wrong' menus with a wide variety of breakfast and lunch dishes to choose from, many with an interesting fusion twist to make it extra enticing. I had the soft shell crab kimchi bowl, which I highly recommend. It bust with sweet and spicy flavours, and is the perfect size portion. The atmosphere is vibrant (though acoustics are perhaps a bit loud) and the service is friendly and efficient. I also found it to be very reasonably priced. Highly recommend, though be prepared to Q and wait for a table.

Looking at Granger & Co from leafy St. James’s church garden over the road, this feels more like a village green than the middle of London. It's set in a relatively peaceful, green part of London. They serve interesting salads - for example, the Bondi salad with goat's yoghurt, feta and rose harissa (for a nice spicy kick) is not your average salad...

Been here a few times and it never disappoints. The Bills classic menu - scrambled eggs or corn fritter or the ricotta hot cakes are my main targets! Delicious! Coffee is made to high standard and this place is very consistently good

Just finishing up a meal here and can't wait to review. Granger & co. is the epitome of cheerful and delicious! The decor is bright and happy, with warm wood paneling on the ceiling, white clean walls, granite flooring and bar, and loads of mirrors and huge windows. Despite being overcast outside, it seems bright indoors. I also loved how diverse the clientele was...young couples, groups of laughing friends, and families with small kids. Everyone mixed well together, and smiles where all around!

Aside from the happy interior, the food and service make their customers all the merrier. We started with the Korean Fried Chicken. The chicken was crispy yet perfectly tender, accompanied by a spicy sesame chili sauce. For our mains, we had their grass fed beef burger. Absolutely amazing. The homemade tomato sauce and herb mayonnaise was really special, the beef was flavorfully seasoned and juicy, and the garnish, a thinly sliced cucumber, made an otherwise heavy burger very light and refreshing. This is a two hand, multi napkin kind of burger as you won't put it down.

The fries also are a treat. Lightly seasoned, you wish you had more!

All and all, this is a great fun place for a Sunday afternoon with your friends, family or special someone.

Possibly my new favourite brunch place in London. It might seem an exaggeration to claim the whole of London but let's face it, at that hour I'm not trekking too far from base as chances are I'm not fully functional at brunch o'clock anyway. Nonetheless it sounds better and I'm happy to give Granger and go praise where praise is due. From the moment of booking the staff were super helpful.

 ... Dammit I need to get off a bus so gonna come back to finish writing later......aaand the app crashed on me when I finished the review so this is attempt #3!  (angry face @zomato).  

On phoning to reserve I was informed the menu changes at 12pm.  So chose to book 11.30am to get the best of both menus.  Worked out a treat.  We were a group of 5 (2 arrived late) so of us ordered breakfast for starter and then lunch for main!  For the more health conscious among our group was a wide selection of gluten free, dairy free, meat free, without any compromise on flavour.  I fall more into the category of stress free when dining which it definitely was as we didn't have to scour with a fine comb for everyone in our group.  The cocktail selection is pretty interesting too.  I've not been doing so well in my acid test of Bloody Mary's of late but Granger's concoction made with clamato juice hit the spot.  Couldn't resist staying for dessert too.  Miso full!

The second London venture of Granger & Co. (the first one being in Notting Hill) is bright and modern. A chic white staircase leads you up to the dining room which overlooks a leafy corner of Clerkenwell. The food on offer is ....

West Londoners will know the name "Granger and Co." well associating it with hearty and delicious meals and a great cup of coffee to boot. To say they have been a roaring success is a gross understatement and even with the plethora of choice in Westbourne Grove area of Notting Hill, it's positioned itself as one of the best( if not the best in my opinion). So with that in mind, expansion was inevitable and so it was that Granger and Co. Clerkenwell came to be - my destination for breakfast on this sunny Sunday.

Ascending the stairs into the restaurant, I was taken by the modern decor with creativity befitting of the area; purposefully minimalist with sunlight streaming in through walls of floor to ceiling windows creating a vibrant and open dining space. And it is this surrounding which allows the food to assume centre stage; and it most certainly does.

With my January "health" binge in full flow and fighting every temptation to order the sweetcorn fritters with bacon, I went vegetarian this morning with courgette fritters served with a deep fried egg, halloumi, tahini yogurt and parsley salad and in truth, I'm glad I did because it was delicious, fresh and though fling, quite light. The fritters, coated in the tahini yogurt, were utterly moreish and leaves you wishing you had more.

However, good behaviour should not go unrewarded which conveniently justified an order of the ricotta hot cakes with fresh banana, honeycomb butter and maple syrup which was as devilishly good as it sounds and so fluffy, it was like eating a cloud.

So another location and another winner from the Granger and Co. brain trust. The question now is, where next?

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I had a lot of fun during my recent visit to Granger & Co Clerkenwell. Aussie restauranteur Bill Granger’s latest restaurant in a selective global portfolio – which includes a well established eatery in Notting Hill along with outlets in Sydney, Tokyo, and Hawaii – features a playfully palate pleasing menu served in a comfortable and lavishly spacious dining room. Here are a few highlights from my dinner.

Granger & Co is an ideal venue for special occasions that you still want to retain something of a casual air. The space itself impressed me upon my entrance and throughout my meal with its clean line deisign, shear size and zero clutter. Service was efficient and helpful without being too cordial. And the menu was an absolute winner.

Self taught cook Granger’s kitchen yields decidedly comfort food fare skewed toward the Asian side of the Pacific and could possibly come across as overly contrived and a little wacky … until you actually take a bite of what’s offered. A perfect example is the rather-odd-sounding-but-believe-me-it’s-actually-delicious bonito, tofu, potato and parmesan pizza (£12), which I found was an excellent choice for sharing. The multi-napkin-necessary “small plate” of Korean fried chicken with iceberg lettuce, spring onion and chilli sesame (£8.50) was a good one for passing round the table as well.

A little less easy to share but nonetheless a tasty tuck was the shrimp burger with jalapeño mayo, shaved radish salad, and sesame gochujang (£15). A relatively more run-of-the-mill dish of sticky chilli belly pork with spring onion salad (£17.20) was an exceptionally pleasurable mound of deliciousness as well.

I wouldn’t say an accompanying bottle of Momo 2012 Marlborough Pinot Noir wowed, but it certainly more than satisfied and held steady without faltering across a range of menu items.

Prices were pretty expensive but quality was high and the concept was big on fun without being crass or cheesy.

Antipodeans all over London rejoiced the day that Aussie Chef Bill Granger set up shop in London, he brought with him a taste of home, in the form of the humble Sweetcorn fritter. At his Notting Hill branch, they're served crispy and golden with a side of avocado and bacon, just the way I remember. So when I hear that he's opened up a new outpost in Clerkenwell, I'm thrilled.

I seem to remember Clerkenwell being a great deal grubbier in previous years, but when I head over, there's a shininess and glamour coming from the streets and Granger & Co, perched right next to Clerkenwell Green is in the thick of it. The interiors are bright and airy, floor to ceiling windows and an abundance of creams, golds and pale wood. Tables are set decently apart and you can curl up against the banquettes and settle in for a good natter and since I'm in great company with fellow Bloggers, we barely take a breath between us.

Our wonderful host Sarah has selected a wide range of dishes for us and everything is brought over to be shared. This woman deserves a prize for fabulous ordering skills, let me tell you.

The first thing I start off with is the Korean Fried Chicken served with Iceberg lettuce, spring onion and a sesame chilli sauce. Never before have I had Fried chicken that is quite so light tasting as this. I wrap up juicy spicy chunks in my iceberg lettuce, sprinkle in a dash of coriander and generously dunk into the sesame chilli sauce and crunch. I've made it to chicken heaven.

Whoever has been at the Shrimp Tempura is a dab hand with the light batter and the prawns are left to shine through with only the merest hint of a batter. But you want to order this dish for the Mayo. Called Red-Eye Mayo, it is quite possibly the best condiment I have ever had, on closer questioning it's a mixture of Espresso, Sriracha and Mayo blended together. If I concentrate really hard, I could taste the Espresso, but that may just be the power of suggestion at play.

In the camp of green things, Spring vegetable salad of green beans, courgettes, cucumber, pea shoots and feta seasoned with mint and chilli successfully marries contributing to my five a day whilst also tasting fabulous. The gnudi is new to me, essentially Gnudi (pronounced Nude-y) is very similar to Gnocchi, but lighter as instead of potato, it's made with Ricotta. I'd say they are closer to Dumplings on the scale and no surprises here, also delicious with a very light and delicate buttery sauce.

When the pizzas arrive, we have to make room on the table and say goodbye to some of the starter dishes that were so plentifully placed in front of us. A little moment of Sophie's choice as we try in vain to fit even more dishes on our table and like brave soldiers, we're forced to say goodbye to the old.

Bonito isn't an ingredient oft-seen outside of Japan and the dancing flakes on top of this unusual pizza featuring Tofu, Potato and Parmesan all seem to gel together in an interesting fashion. The shrimp and fennel is another interesting twist, while the tomato, basil and mozzarella is an old classic done well. I'm never an enormous pizza fan, so I content myself with ladylike nibbles on these as there is yet more to come!

Final courses (insert sigh of relief) are part of the Main plates, Sarah has chosen for us the Deep Fried seabass, tea-smoked salmon on a bed of green tea noodles, Indian inspired Cauliflower and Butter beans, BBQ belly pork and some more greens in the form of Broccolini with anchovy and chilli.

I love how the seabass comes completely whole crunchy skin on the outside but delicately flakes when we take to it with a knife, leaving behind succulent white flesh. The BBQ belly pork is rich and balanced well by the lettuce cups, but it is the tea-smoked salmon that has me licking my lips in delight. It's so delightfully refreshing and delicate, even for a somewhat oily salmon and leaves a lovely taste behind.

It's only the Indian cauliflower that I don't try, I rebelled against this dish plenty growing up and I'm not giving in now. I make up for it with a few mouthfuls of the broccolini though, salty and a little fishy, this packs a punch.

The meal is being washed down with the most excellent selection of wines, the French Rose slipping down a treat and balancing all the lighter options of the meal just so perfectly.

The array of desserts lifts our spirits even further. The white chocolate and pistachio pavlova is crunchy and gooey with a sprinkling of strawberries and rosewater cream. The cheesecake is quite different, featuring ginger nuts with a blueberry lemon marscapone topping in a chunky glass and the prosecco and elderflower jelly comes with a lashing of summer berries.

I'm in love with the elderflower jelly although after the heavy meal we've had, I do think the elderflower could be a little bit more pronounced but all these desserts are more-ish and the system of being able to dip your fork into sample meaty mouthfuls is a trend that I'm hoping sweeps along to more establishments.

I keep adding to my cookery book shelves (Jason Atherton’s Social Suppers new this weekend, and a long list of wants, including the Morito and Honey & Co books). Some I just flick through and never quite get round to making anything from, others are a little ingredient spattered from lots of cooking. One of the most leafed through is Bill Granger’s Easy Asian, his style simple, fresh, all beautifully shot in the book.

His first London post of Granger & Co opened in Notting Hill, particularly known for the rather extensive brunch offering (Granger is Australian, and Antipodeans do seem to do brunch well – see Caravan for example). The second has just opened near me in Clerkenwell, tucked just between Clerkenwell Green and St John Street. It’s open all day, the menu including salads, pizzas, pastas, curries and other mains.

We went for brunch one Saturday though, with almost too many options. There are juices, interesting grains (I like the sound of the brown rice and sweet miso porridge), different ways with eggs, and Granger’s famous ricotta hotcakes. We chose savoury – I had the broken eggs with ricotta, spinach, pine nuts and grilled sourdough (£8.50), which were more set scrambled in their skillet. A really lovely combination with the cool ricotta and creamy pine nuts.

E had the sweetcorn fritter, roast tomato, spinach and bacon (£13.50) – fritters are hard to get right, often ending up as rather tasteless fried lumps, but these were great, nice and crispy on the outside. They needed the avocado salsa, but it would have been nice to have been included, rather than an extra £2.80. But the portions are pretty generous – important if you feel a little cheated from skipping breakfast or lunch for brunch. If you are still peckish, you can always take a look at the gleaming counter, full of biscotti, pastries, cheesecake and all kinds of other nice sweet things.

Recommended and I love the decoration very much here. Its relaxing, modern, The food was fancy as well. I ordered the pancakes and it was good looking. The taste was alright though. Sourdough with avo cocktail was great but nothing special. Staff were nice

As a solo diner, I was really well looked after by all the staff. They were super friendly and were attentive without being overbearing. The chicken starter I had was next level amazing and my steak was delicious (although just the tiniest bit chewy). The wine I had was very good and complimented the food beautifully. The atmosphere and vibe in the restaurant was fabulous. It was cool without being pretentious. The lighting, the music, the layout all contributed to a great ambience! At £60, I thought it was really good value given the quality of food *and* service. All in all it was an excellent eating experience!

They've kept it simple and achieved superb with both the décor and the menu. The food was extremely well done, with flavour, texture and presentation ticking all the boxes. Also they have a good selection of drinks to supplement the food.

Amazing place for a weekend brunch, very good food but kinda small portions. Very nice atmosphere!

The brunch was really delicious - rich in flavours, diverse and veggie friendly. Staff was also in a good mood.

Flawless food with best-in-class customer service. We placed a complex order, but Simon and the team were truly exceptional. They finessed our meal with incredible speed, delivering the food to a gold-standard quality. We are beyond thankful for their help - the team was thrilled and our Granger & Co experience brightened our whole afternoon. The G&C Clerkenwell team (another shoutout to Simon!) are the type of people that really do make the world a better place ✨

lovely breakfast/brunch spot! really friendly staff. i would recommend the ricotta pancakes and scrambled eggs i would NOT recommend the avocado toast it was plain , just sliced avocado on toast literally, which was disappointing for what it cost.

Delicious brunch spot in City of London. Great Coffees and orange juice with ginger shots available to give your morning a little bit of perkiness. Interesting menu options including this particularly naughty Kimchi fried rice with soft shell crab. Great service too.