Bronek’s Fish Restaurant review – a big fish in a medium-sized pond

Seafood and wacky decor get you in the door, but it’s the people watching that makes you come back. Pining for what once was is a pastime that I really need to snap out of (and the same goes for the country as a whole while we’re at it). Whether that’s for my less-complicated life as it was before my stroke. Or for fondly-remembered restaurants that have long since closed, such as exemplary seafood purveyors Rex and Mariano. As it turns out, my yearning for an accessible yet high quality seafood restaurant could’ve been met all this time by a long-running Ealing institution – Bronek’s Fish Restaurant. Most people are drawn to Bronek’s by its wildly eclectic and slightly overwhelming maritime-themed decor. Unlike the clearly manufactured chintz of the now-closed West End branch of Bubba Gump, the ocular overload here comes across as genuinely eccentric – an actual expression of the personality of affable proprietor and chef, the eponymous Bronek. Unlike Bubba Gump, this salty spew…