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Bobo & Wild
★ 4.0(1 review)Restaurant
livelycasualbrunchy
About the Vibe
Bobo & Wild is a dual-personality spot on Wanstead High Street that does brunch by day and smokehouse by night. By day, expect chef-led brunch plates, speciality coffee, and in-house baked cakes and pastries. Come 5pm, it flips into a Texas-style smokehouse slinging 12-hour smoked brisket, slow-cooked ribs, robata-grilled meats, and hand-crafted smashed burgers with cocktails. It's the kind of place that gives Wanstead a reason to stay out past sundown.
Why it's worth it
A Wanstead High Street spot that flips from chef-led brunch with speciality coffee to a Texas-style smokehouse with 12-hour smoked brisket and cocktails after 5pm.
Highlights
smoked brisketspeciality coffeebrunch & smokehousein-house baked cakes
Before you go
Go for brunch before 10am on weekends to skip the rush, or book ahead for the evening smokehouse menu — the brisket sells out on busy nights.
Known For
- •12-hour smoked brisket
- •chef-led brunch
- •speciality coffee and in-house baked cakes
- •Texas-style smokehouse menu
Best For
weekend brunchdinner with cocktailsgroup dinners
1 review
City InsidersEditorialJuly 9, 2026
Brunch by day, smokehouse by night — Wanstead's dual-threat dining spot
Bobo & Wild has figured out something most restaurants in the suburbs haven't: how to be two places at once without doing either half badly. By day, it's a bustling brunch spot on Wanstead High Street, just minutes from the station and opposite Christchurch Green. The brunch menu is chef-led — this isn't your average eggs-and-avocado-on-toast operation — and the speciality coffee is genuinely good. They bake their cakes and pastries in-house daily, and you can taste the difference.
Come 5pm, the whole place shifts gears. The smokehouse menu kicks in, and this is where Bobo & Wild really earns its stripes. The 12-hour smoked brisket is the headline act — deep, smoky, properly tender — and the slow-cooked ribs and robata-grilled meats hold their own alongside it. The hand-crafted smashed burgers are a solid bet if you're not in a sharing mood. Add cocktails to the mix and you've got a genuinely fun dinner spot that doesn't feel like it's trying too hard.
It's not flawless — it can get busy and loud on weekends, and the smokehouse side of things is hearty rather than refined. But for a neighbourhood spot in Wanstead, it punches well above its weight. The 4.8 Google rating tells you locals are buying in, and rightly so.