Bronek's Fish Restaurant

"Sometimes you need a good chat and a friendly face to make London feel a little less grey. Find both at Bronek’s Fish Restaurant. Part Ealing seafood spot, part Trawlermen-obsessive’s house, come for nautical memorabilia—see a model blowfish twirling like a disco ball—and a natter with the neighbouring table. Bronek is the affable captain at the helm. He shuffles between tables, taking photos and ferrying comically large, multi-layer platters to diners. We always stumble out in a hazy, lobster-fuelled delirium, with a camera roll full of selfies with the big model of a chef fish outside." - daisy meager, jake missing, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, heidi lauth beasley, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak, jake missing, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, sinead cranna, jake

"Calling Bronek’s Fish Restaurant ‘nautical-themed’ is an understatement. This isn’t a theme. This is an immersive experience where it feels plausible that a pineapple-dwelling sponge and small blue fish with short-term memory loss could drop by at any moment. At the helm is Bronek—fish enthusiast, Ealing celebrity, and captain of this restaurant. Not all the fish is perfect—although, some is truly delicious—but the hefty platters are only part of the reason you come here. The other is to feel like the rowdy crew—it’s BYOB—on a ship’s mess deck." - rianne shlebak, jake missing, heidi lauth beasley, daisy meager

"Bronek’s Fish Restaurant is all about huge platters and feeling like the rowdy crew on a ship's mess deck. At the helm of this BYOB is Bronek, who shuffles between the kitchen and dining room taking off menu orders. Let him do you a platter with a variety of fish—it’s a comically large, multi-layer dish. The kind where huge octopus tentacles will be undetectable until you’ve eaten a top layer of deep-fried mackerel." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, heidi lauth beasley

"Bronek’s Fish Restaurant looks like a Trawlermen-obsessive’s house, in a great way. A blowfish twirls from the ceiling like a spiky piñata and the walls are covered in nets and plastic lobsters. Bronek himself shuffles between the kitchen and the dining room of this seafood spot, taking off-menu orders and photographs with diners like the Ealing celebrity he is. It’s also BYOB, which adds to the whole ‘rowdy crewmates on a ship’s mess deck’ feel." - jake missing, daisy meager, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley

"Keanu Reeves could be cosplaying as Poseidon on Ealing’s Northfield Avenue and we’d still have our eyes locked on the sweet, meaty lobster at this BYOB seafood spot. It's an entirely immersive restaurant that will get the hearts of Below Deck fans racing, where your affable captain, Bronek, loads large platters with delightfully briny deep-fried mackerel, Kraken-esque octopus, and crispy battered salmon. Come with your favourite friends and if you leave without getting a rain-soaked group selfie with the human-sized fish chef statue by the entrance, you’re doing it wrong. " - rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, heidi lauth beasley