Carnivale

This place is closed...

great venue, lovey staff and and quite the most spectacularly good hand cut chips!! try them with the crispy prawns, the combo is awesome :)

i don't write reviews but when I read a negative one like the one left below I can not resist the urge to do so. Carnivale has now become a local to me. The two owners are nothing but wonderful despite the comments made by one reviewer. I go regularly to this restaurant and neither of them have ever been rude or weird. You can't fault the work and dedication they both put in. From building it themselves to working 7 days a week, with the occasional staff help, these two know how to create a welcoming and homely atmosphere for their customers while still presenting a stunning venue with masses of events coming and going. A live music venue, restaurant and bar that's free to get in and offers an amazing steak for only 11.95. Its hard to write a negative comment about this little place, unless you are a negative person with other motives behind leaving such ridiculous comments. At least they got one thing right, the atmosphere is brilliant the food is good, and the service. Well ignore what ever you have read before and trust me, you won't get better in a venue near brick lane.

I live locally and went to Carnivel with a friend of mine who came up from Peckham because I suggested we check it out after seeing a film at the Genesis. Whilst there was definitely a great atmosphere on the night, the food was good, and the DJs great, we were treated very poorly by a waitress serving in the upstairs section. We decided to ignore this because her colleague downstairs was very accommodating and were made to feel very welcome by him. I wont go into the detail of what happened because I think this is irrelevant and one could easily enter into a who said what situation. The fact is, because of the way her colleague treated us we stayed and spent £46. She could have done exactlty what her colleague did for us but she either chose not to or she is not aware of good customer service. Whichever one of these, I certainly wont be going back to Carnivale and will go instead go to the many welcoming bars and restaurants in the area.

I am astonished that this place has yet to be reviewed. Its chitch and qwerky, and is going to be the place to go in the East before you know it. The music range is immense. I have visited and heard Cole Porter being played, followed the next hour by a live indie band "NewIslands". With open mic sessions every week, an upcoming cabaret and a monthly event called "smutty pop" I am so pleased to have stumbled up brick lane to find this place. Timeout you are missing out not visiting.