Ariana II in Brent

This is a lovely, welcoming and friendly restaurant in Kilburn. Every dish was fresh and tasty and there was a good variety of vegetarian and meat dishes. The portions are generous and everyone was incredibly helpful. Make space for a tasty starter of dumplings or filled savoury pastry. The main course grills are great value and well made and the baklava for dessert is fresh and sweet.

I Adore this restaurant. Whether you want takeaway or dine in- you will have a fantastic experience. The food is heavenly, homemade, and nourishing. Meat eaters will love it and there are also tons of vegetarian and even vegan options. The waitstaff is so lovely, attentive, and generous! I can't wait to come back again and again (and again). ❤️

Great service and delicious food. Very reasonable prices. BYOB and cash only. Will be back!

A lovely Valentine’s Day meal here! Food, service and atmosphere was great! Generous portions at a fair price in a relaxed environment made for a super evening

5 stars! Beautiful food and faultless service. We really enjoyed trying some new dishes. Will be back!

Wonderful spot. Tasty food and excellent service.

Excellent food, lovely staff and reasonable prices. Would highly recommend

Amazing food amazing service amazing sauce

Amazing food, really friendly staff. All around great

اكل حلو نوعا ما ولاكن الشيء الذي لم يعجبني وضع مبلغ سيرفس على الفاتوره لإحراج الزبون للدفع ،، وهذا الشيء لم يعجبني لذلك هيا كانت تجربتي الاولى لهذا المطعم والاخيرة .

Amazing food! The rice with lamb is outstanding! Highly recommended

I had a lot of fun, such great food with many options and a friendly customer service , will surely come back again!

Shrey enjoyed his Birthday Baklava

Our experience at this restaurant was amazing. From the food to the customer service, it was a great experience and I’ll definitely be revisiting in the future.

Absolutely loved our meal - amazing service and great that it was BYOB. The food was great and the portions were fantastic. Can’t wait to come back!

Really helpful staff, the waitress went the extra mile with her service. Great tasting food.

I was very very satisfied The food was very good.own cuisines of Afghanistan Keep up the good work guys.🇦🇫💯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I recently dined at the Ariana restaurant and had a delightful experience! The meat samosas were perfectly crisp, and the lamb kotas were a savory delight. The flavours were rich, authentic, and left me eager to return for more! Highly recommended!

A very lovely dinner experience as always. We have been coming here for years and it's a great regular. Unusual starters that are the highlight for me but delicious mains as well. Go!

Food was delicious, service and prices were excellent. Will be back!

Fantastic food and the most friendly service - best place in Kilburn!

Been coming to this place for years now and I’ve never been disappointed once. Hands down best Afgan restaurant in london.

Great food, big portions, fantastic staff. Never tried Afghan food before, but would 100% recommend Arianna II. Thanks for having us.

Worried I wouldn’t get it because I haven’t been to Ariana 1 but it’s nice

Really delicious food! Highly recommend it! Their secret sauce is amazing!

Samira and her team run a wonderful establishment. We had a fab time catching up. They entertain but also leave you to enjoy your meal. Thank you for a lovely meal! No cap

Excellent food and service. Superb value. Cannot recommend highly enough!

Amazing service! Amazing food! Can't wait to come back🍷🍗

literally the best!! Amazing service! Amazing food! Will be coming back!

Incredible service and amazing food!

Lovely waitress. Great food. Incredibly tasty. Will definitely come again!

Had such a cosy meal here with my sister- the food was delicious and the staff were so so nice!

One of the very few Afghan restaurants that serve authentic and delicious Afghan food

Got takeout delivered to my hotel for my first Afghani food experience and I loved it. Ordered a couple dumpling dishes (all delicious), the national dish Kabuli Pulao, and kebabs. Everything was so delicious. Highly recommend!

The rice were specially delicious. Got served complementary green tea with bacalawa. The waiter was super sweet and funny.

Amazing service and unreal food

Good food. Great price. Lovely north west location.

Amazing food and service!! Will definitely be back.

Amazing food huge portions great service

We fell in love with this place the minute we walked in. The smells were delicious. Samira welcomed us with open arms and despite our disappointment at our show at the Kiln Theatre being cancelled, she managed to make us feel right at home. We aren’t local but cannot recommend this place enough. It’s BYO, food is super tasty, as is the tea.

Delicious food, great atmosphere and really nice server.

Amazing food! Such a nice experience and warm and friendly servers. Definitely coming back!

Amazing service, such kind staff and fantastic food

Excellent food and very welcoming and friendly staff

Amazing food! Fresh and actually tastes authentic. Try the pilaf and lamb curry - perfect on a cold winter day. The only thing I feedback for improvement is the lamb cutlets and hopefully they can be more tender on my next trip, I’ll be coming back.

Insane food and experience. Service was absolutely incredible and my friends and I had the best time. We will be coming back! Deffo recommend to anyone.

The staff here are lovely and the food was absolutely delicious!! 100% recommend!!!

Really lovely food and workers! Would come here again😊

Loved this place!!! Everyone working here was so lovely and the food was amazing! 10/10 would recommend!

Food was amazing and service was fantastic !! Can’t wait to come back again

Samera was amazing. Best worker in the building!

Staff wonderful, specially Samira!!! Food amazing!!! Best place in London for Afghan food.

The best afghan place in London! I have been enjoying the food since 2011! SAMIRA is the best.

The best hidden gem in north west London! Always a memorable authentic dining experience great staff even better food living up to the amazing Afghan cuisine. Fantastic portion sizes that can always be packed for take away if you can’t finish

Great food and excellent friendly service. Good value too and the heating was turned up on a cold day! Would definitely recommend to others.

The best and tastiest place to go in Kilburn!! Not only absolutely delicious food but everyone there is super friendly and wonderful!

Wow! We’re full and need a sleep now! Fabulous food and charming staff. Coming back!

Fabulous restaurant with stellar, kind service and a lovely atmosphere:)

The carrots in kabuli pilot were like the size if triple a batteries Tikka kebab was huge without tast

Your lemons were amazing by the way! Please let us know which farm they were harvested from 😉😉😉😁

Amazing food and service as always!!

In all honesty one of the best places to eat in North West, great people great service and most importantly delicious food.

Amazing food, lovely service and people aswell, will definitely come back, thank you

Food was amazing. Workers were very pleasant and food came quick. Would recommend

Excellent, home-styled food. Tastes very fresh.

Excellent AFgan food very tasty . You can bring your own alcohol as they do not serve it. Very close to Kiln theatre good value for money . Try their lamb kofte and aubergine starter

Incredible food and atmosphere, highly recommend!

The food is insane!!! So delicious honestly and the service made the experience even better. Will definitely be coming back

I have to say, as a foodie I’ve ate at MANY restaurants in my time, but this, BY FAR was one of my best experiences. I came with my family, and from the beginning, the hospitality was top tier! And the food was just as good as the experience, TOP tier, the only way to explain it. I have to give a special thanks to Samira who treated us with such kindness and looked after us so well. A great family run restaurant, highly recommended and I will definitely be back!

My favourite place in Kilburn!!

My wife's Sea bass was perfectly cooked & came with tasty flavoursome rice. My lamb dish was also perfectly cooked, tender and succulent. Another hidden gem around Kilburn.

Fantastic food, the most delightful service - Samira in particular is absolutely wonderful - steadily becoming a regular here - absolute gem love a byob as well

I have been eating in and ordering from Ariana for years, the food is always great!

Thank you for a lovey night and the best Afghan food in town

Tonight, I had the pleasure of dining at Arina 2, savoring the exquisite flavors of Afghan cuisine. The kabuli pilow was a standout, bursting with authentic taste and rich aromas that delighted my palate. The service was truly excellent, characterized by attentiveness and a warm hospitality that enhanced the overall dining experience. Arina 2 not only delivers delicious Afghan dishes but also provides a welcoming ambiance. From the flavorful kabuli pilow to the exceptional service, this restaurant is a gem for those seeking an authentic taste of Afghanistan in a hospitable setting. Highly recommended for a memorable culinary journey.

Please Don't make people to pay cash only after serving food!

Delicious food, generous portions and very friendly helpful staff. Really enjoyed the whole experience

Lovely food, wonderful service!

Me and mum had the grill for 2 and a strawberry mockiri and virgin mojito. The food was excellent and so was the service. I’d definitely recommend!

We went for dinner first time at Ariana ordered some kabuli pilaw with lamb shank, lamb curry with naan and mantu the food was absolutely amazing authentic Afghan taste♥️ The portions were great the lamb was tender and succulent this is now one of my best places to dine out🙌 The staff was amazing very professional polite and friendly at the time of ordering was told not to order extra yet can order later 😂 because the portions were so big we were also given an extra dish from them🥰 The restaurant is beautiful clean beautiful atmosphere relaxing place to go out and enjoy with family will be visiting often now strongly recommended x

Not only was the food delicious, but the staff were absolutely lovely. We were with our friends and their daughter and the waitress helped her order and also offered us wonderful recommendations for dinner.

My boyfriend and I got seated immediately by a very friendly waitress, she gave us a bottle opener for the beers we brought in and took our order quickly. The food was REALLY tasty, overall a really lovely experience.

Great restaurant, food quantity is enormous, we 2 adults and 2 children couldn’t handle offer -dinner for two, but food was exceptional!-really tasty! As this is family restaurant, all the staff was fully comited and very pleasant-if you’re anywhere near and never tried afganistant food-go for it 100%! Really hope that this restaurant will thrive-they are worth it!🤗

Fabulous BYO restaurant. Really friendly welcome, every time.  The warm samosa & starters are freshly made to order. Large portions, afghan rice always tastes good, alongside our kebabs or lamb shanks, (served with spinach). We both ended up with doggy bags to take our leftover rice home as it was too good to waste! Have eaten here a few times & always enjoyed our meals & atmosphere. I had a sore throat & cold, they gave me a mint tea on the house to help me feel better & ease my croaky throat. This kindness was very much appreciated.

First visit to Ariana and it was amazing. Lovely atmosphere, our waitress was great - gave us some perfect recommendations of what to try and the food was amazing. Definitely recommend :)

Very expensive and less food they provide, also they charge you more, we ordered food which cost £35 and they took £44 shame on you charging ppl a lot and in front of others we had to pay but very poor service wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

Food was amazing. Rice was really nice especially when you pair it with the chilli sauce. I recommend the lamb shank and the chicken curry to mix together. Very nice.

This was an amazing find. Great menu.. Absolutely delicious food. Lovely staff. Very reasonably priced, which is great in current times. Very convenient for the Kiln theatre. Highly recommended.

Been going to this great local restaurant for years. Tasty food, reasonably priced, extremely generous portions (in fact almost too much, so make sure you're really hungry!) and friendly service. Also, a great plus is that you can take your own wine with no corkage charge. If you haven't already tried it, give it a go, highly recommended.

It wasn't until 2 of our party , who were pescatarians, ordered fish that we were told no fish. That fish hadn't been served since Covid. So nearly 2 years but it was still on the menu. Of our party of 10, 4 complained that there was too much rice. Dishes ordered with rice came served on 2 different plates which didn't leave room on the table. When we had finished, plates were not cleared for 15/ 20 mins after we had paid the bill. Staff didn't seem interested in clearing the tables. When I complained that there was no hand towel in the toilet. I was directed to an empty box of tissues.

We were a a large group so we had a range of food from the menu, all of which was excellent. I've eaten at a lot of Afghan restaurants in London and Ariana2 is by far the best. Our waitress was amazing despite the restaurant being busy.

Brilliant food and great service. I have been going here to years and love it - aushak is delicious and I always get the kabuli palow. Nowhere better in NW London and highly recommend.

Kilburn seems to have undergone a revival of sorts. The neighbourhood is buzzing. Ariana II is one of the jewels in the area. Friendly staff, you can bring in your own alcohol (staff are nice and will keep it in the fridge for you) and the food is incredible. The entire meal - from the appetisers to the main course - was great. They maintained Covid-19 protocols all through.

Me and my partner visited the restaurant after we had been recommended it by a friend. The food was incredible and the service was attentive and helpful. We brought our own alcohol and they opened our wine for us. I will definitely recommend and visit again. It was very affordable and we boxed up and took some food home with us.

We decide for first time me and my wife to try Ariana 2 restaurant in Kilburn The staff fantastic The food delicious we can’t wait return

Food is delicious, filled with lots of different and unusual spices and flavours. Portion sizes are very generous. It’s pretty cheap for what it is, comparatively. And it’s bring your own booze. What’s not to like?!

La comida estuvo bien. Muy pequeña. Sin embargo, cuando recibimos la factura, intentaron cobrarnos de más. No una, sino dos. Esto no fue un error matemático, fue porque pensaron que éramos turistas en mi opinión. Obviamente no volveremos. Elección mucho más honesta en otro lugar. Evitar

Vine aquí durante Eat out para llevar con una familia de 7, realmente nos gustó la hospitalidad de todo el personal, arruinaron un poco nuestro pedido y fueron muy generosos al compensarnos con entrantes de cortesía y pan fresco. La comida era deliciosa, por lo general necesito agregar más condimentos como mantequilla, zumaque, etc., pero la comida era tan sabrosa que ni siquiera necesitaba la salsa de chile que pedí. Disfrutamos toda la experiencia, especialmente el servicio y dijimos que volveríamos con más familia.

Disfrutamos del cálido naan y hummus, y nos sentimos listos para llenarnos con nuestros platos principales. ¡Mamá estaba encantada con su jugo de granada! Se dispuso ante nosotros un festín de platos. Brochetas, mantu, albóndigas, pierna de cordero y arroz con zanahoria, naranja y pasas. "Delicioso", todos asentimos, mientras probábamos la comida que se derrite en la boca. Incluso los frijoles rojos fueron limpiados. 4/5, Laila, joven crítica de alimentos declarada.Siguió un delicioso postre de Firnee y Beghlava (baklava). Nos encantó el firnee cremoso, pero sentimos que el beghlava era un poco suave. Descubrimos que todos los tamaños de las porciones eran geniales y sin duda volveremos. ; )Tuvimos un gran servicio de Sumeira la camarera y me sentí especial y bienvenido.

Pedimos desde aquí con bastante frecuencia y la comida siempre es increíble. El curry, el kabuli pulao, el naan caliente y esponjoso, el delicioso hummus, el sabroso arroz, el tierno cordero kofte y el firnee (postre) son sensacionales. El personal es excepcional. Es uno de mis lugareños favoritos y estamos ansiosos por volver y sentarnos a comer después del cierre