🔴 @theconnaughtilford 🔴 Located In Ilford
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This hidden gem tucked away on a quiet side street serving breakfast brunch every morning and burgers and steaks in the evening, as well as value for money. They started breakfast recently, so I tried few of the dishes.
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Pictured above are:-
🔳 Classic Breakfast (£8)
🔳 Steak & Egg Florentine (£7.50)
🔳 Lotus Buttermilk Pancakes (£8)
🔳 Aussie French Toast (£8)
🔳 Butter Chicken Burger (£8)
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I always judge sausages with any breakfast dishes. You can tell these ain’t your typical cheap sausages. Good tasty meaty and beefy sausages. Just a good old classic breakkie. With breakfast prices everywhere going close to £15, getting a breakkie under 10 is a win win
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My fav has to be this steak and egg. Amazing tender and melt in your mouth pulled beef with Avocado which gave a nice little creamy texture. This was really good. Must try
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This probably might be one of the best pancakes I’ve had. I mentioned few times buttermilk pancakes that have a fluffy yet flakey cakey texture are the ones. This was exactly that. The edges have a nice caramelised crust giving a nice little crunchy twist.
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First Aussie french toast. Most know I can’t do fruity. I probably would’ve enjoyed this without the fruity stuff. The bread itself was soft and had texture and crunch from coconut infused. Wasn’t for me because of the fruits but I can tell those who like fruity will defo enjoy this
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I tried one of their burgers. The butter chicken was calling my name. Lol I had it and I was surprised them burgers were fricking amazing. Probably one of the most juiciest chicken thigh I’ve had. So crispy and tender chicken inside. The butter chicken gravy was drenched on the top. I would’ve drenched and dipped the whole thing for this burger
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All in all excellent spot for breakfast even for your burger fixes. I must come back to try their burgers. Defo has potential
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- Fully Halal
- No alcohol served

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The Connaught

This small little brunch place, is a cute little place to go for brunch. The only downside to this place is how small it is and the waiting times (Was told the waiting time would be a minimum a 45 minute wait, luckily someone left before us and got seating within 5 minutes), other then that the food is alright. The Staff are extremely friendly, went with someone who has a peanut allergy, although the chef advised not to eat anything due to possibility of cross contamination after confirming that the nuts were from the Baklava we came to and agreement with what would be okay to eat.

Hidden gem in Ilford which serves great breakfast options. We ordered the hot chocolate, The American (comes with mini buttermilk pancakes) and the Classic Breakfast. Decent prices and has a bit of everything to suit everyone’s taste. The buttermilk pancakes were perfect - not too sweet at all. We came on a weekday after 11am and were seated pretty quickly. If you do come on a weekday, be prepared to wait as it is quite small inside but worth the wait in my opinion. The side roads have free parking through the Ringo app which is a plus.

Amazing halal brunch/breakfast spot. The steak and eggs were amazing (the only negative was that they were a little cold when they came out of the kitchen), the pancakes and the royale florentine were great as well. They have virgin cocktails and iced coffee as well. The staff were super busy but lovely. Definitely a great place to try in Ilford. I would recommend booking in advance as they have limited seats.

I visited this place on the launch day and I have to be honest I did have low expectations as it's a steakhouse and on launch day.

However, we were surprised and we loved the food and left the shop very satisfied.

The decor of the place is nicely done and the shop is clean, the staff were often cleaning the floors and tables and making sure the shop was spotless.

The staff were friendly, but we did have to wait around 35 mins for food, but the staff apologised for the delay and this can be expected for a launch day.

We ordered the Jose burger, which is similar to smash burgers but with green chillies, this was a really good burger and would recommend getting it. This came with their house fries, which I have to say is one of the better fries I've had, they were crispy but not too much and had a nice seasoning to it.

We also got the buffalo cheesy burger, this was the weakest item we got, which was still nice and the chicken was nice and soft, but found it slightly Tangier than normal. Which some people would prefer.

And finally we got the chicken steak with peppercorn sauce, this was the star item. The chicken was cooked perfectly and it was juicy and had great flavour and with the peppercorn sauce made it one of the best chicken steaks I've had. This was really nice.

I do hope to try the meat steaks next time, but I am confident that they will also deliver.

The presentation of the food was also great.

Overall, we loved this place and can easily recommend it and will be coming here again.

Cute cozy place. Went there for brunch with a friend and ordered the American breakfast and coffee. It was good for the price and they had different milk options too for the coffee which I liked.
The only issue was waiting time for the food/drinks but it seemed like the people working were less in numbers and did the best they could.

Everything on our menu is certified halal.

Halal Status for The Connaught Ilford