Calabash in Newham

Customer expectation was demonstrated poorly. Very rude and unprofessional, I never felt welcome. Despite the fact from what I ordered, the wings were tasty, however, the plantains were rock hard. I hope my experience doesn't concur with others.

Favourite Caribbean place in the area some of the best curry mutton and jerk I've had in ages. Hidden gem in Stratford!

Good Jamaican food. Consistent quality affordable prices. Varied menu.

Whole roast chicken - some parts moist, some parts DRY ! gravy nice Not Calabash at it's best on this occasion

A decent amount of food that was very tasty. The only negative is that I would have wanted much more gravy on the lamb chops.

Nothing outstanding but really enjoyed my jerk chicken.

The service was very good no complaints

For the second time, items ordered not delivered. Customer service was very poor, blaming the driver. Just Eat have me a refund for the 2 missing items.

Delicious curry goat. Thankfully lots of meat to bone ratio. Food arrived fast and hot.

The food was nothing but straight grease. It was full of oil/fat to the point where you can taste it with every bite. The Mac and cheese was basically Mac with oil and no cheese. With that being said you get the bare minimum of the shambles. For context: what we ordered - Mac and cheese Lamb chops Chicken stew Curry goat Only go there if you want cholesterol and clogged arteries.

Calabash customer service is always good and the food is as good as well cooked Caribbean home cooked 👌

baded on ladt visit. girls at front are lovley and polite. cooks how ever are rude. i metionedxabout oxtail tough and the liquid was oil no gravy, i was told to go home and cook my own oxtail andvthat it will save me alot of money. i mean really, ime suprised its still standing plus god knows how they are handeling the food. i will take cooks advice and dont go back.

The food was cold and I had to heat it up

Food is usually Great. However today I specifically asked for breast or thigh in my large chicken curry. But unfortunately I received 3 legs & one thigh no veg. Also the coleslaw was not fresh it had chemical taste and smell which is unlike Calabash

I had a quick bite MC n cheese with curry goat gravy & saltfish cakes all I gonna say is I went back the very next day for more but was closed 😭

Placed order for 3:30 delivery, which was continually pushed back until 5:15 after which I received a message saying order had been delivered. I DID NOT RECEIVE ORDER. I ended up having to pick it up myself. The restaurant staff said the food was ready to be picked up but delivery driver didnt turn up. Food was lovely. Absolutely abysmal service from Just Eat.

Rice had no seasoning low quality rice

Great portions, brilliant flavour, we had the stew chicken and curry mutton, plantain and coleslaw. All really good, strong 8/10. We’d heard good things from a few people in the area so will definitely be going back!

delicious food, very quick delivery. Thank-you

Really good authentic Caribbean

TASTELESS DRY NOWHERE NEAR YOUR BEST !!! (Oxtail rice & peas & ackee salt fish rice& peas)

Calabash is a place where art meets culture. If the regulars and the staff are the jewellery of the crown the food is the biggest diamond. Highly recommend the trip.

really quick delivery & decent portion size. definitely agree that there wasn't a huge amount of meat on bone for £10, was mostly rice & pea, but overall still decent. curry goat was fab but the patties are the best

As usual the food was delicious and hot and early!

Very disappointed, didn't even eat the food,chicken had no meat on it, sold me rice and peas and bone 🦴

Staff are very polite and nice. The food was really good. I go here often and love it.

I ordered a vegetable but got a meat patty . Not the first time this has happened. ☹️

Food was lovely best I’d had in a long time definitely be ordering again 😁

food was nice would of preferred curry and rice in separates containers, the saltfish fritter very oily and not much fish in it.

I ordered vegetable patties and was sent beef instead of what I ordered. The soup was salty today ☹️

This was our first time trying Calabash, and we were nervous. But the food was excellent. The curry chicken sauce was the best I've tried, but my favourite item was the saltfish fritter. I will buy again soon.

Food was okay but I could tell the rice and peas was not fresh most likely from yesterday. 5.5/10

First time ordering. I got the large curry goat with rice & peas and let me say not only did it arrive on time, but this is the largest large portion of curry goat I've ever received as a takeaway. It was delicious too. I'll definitely be coming back here again.

Soup spilt all over the Pattie and fritter making everything soggy, all of the soup was in the bag. Waste of food.

requested a large portion. what they sent was wayy too small for a large portion

The food is good and the staff are friendly. When I am in the area that my number 1 choice

Absolutely disgusting. I don't know what part of the Caribbean the chef is from but he/she needs to stop doing what they are doing. The food was awful. Mac n cheese was pasta and two square slabs on top.. The stew chicken was basically browning and salt.. Will never recommend or order again

Food was nice but dry as no grave was added on this occasion ☹️

The saltfish fritter was excessively greasy and seemed to have been fried again. Unfortunately, it was inedible. The dumplings were a bit dry but acceptable. The ackee and saltfish itself were satisfactory.

Personally I wouldn’t go back to this calabash. I ordered 3 cornmeal porridge that taste bitter., in all honest it taste off. The quantity of the food has gone down hill. I then called up to let them know as I want my money back and they had the audacity to hang up the phone on me. Please people stop wasting your money on bad food and worse customer service.

I'm unable to collect this order. I would like a refund please. Thank you

Delivery driver was very helpful and efficient very nice driver please keep people like him he was excellent.

Absolutely delicious food and thank you so much for the extra sauce. I’m a very happy customer!

Tasty Caribbean food as usual. Ackee & Saltfish Dumplings - yum Curry Goat - yum Pattie - unfortunately THE WORST pattie i've tasted in my life - (I'm 64) __________________ Calabash - a word to the wise.....STOP sending out cremated patties (they undo all your hard work)

Food is amazing and portions are nice and big

This did not taste anything like Oxtail. It was tasteless and very disappointing. Lots of fatty pieces too. I wouldn't have minded paying £10 for it, if it had been tasty but it wasn't so not value for money either. The pattie was rock hard and dried out. I could only eat the middle and threw the rest away. Overall a waste of money....have you changed the cook?

The chicken stew was excellent 👌

It was very tasty and I loved the portion size and the oxtail was fantastic I would eat this meal again.

Really enjoyed my soup,will try again.

Always meet friends in there always a good atmosphere nice and cosy good 👍 food and theye sell alcohol 🍸 😀

Tasty good food, nice portions. Good value definitely recommend.

I love calabash the food is banging n even the staff they soooo nice

Food was very good, The only issue is there were to many dumplins in the large soup.

had food from here before must of got a new chef all I got was saltmeat and 3 1/2 rice and 1/2 meat too tooo salty no flavor

I ordered 2 large soup and one of the soup top was smashed and all the soup spilt in the carrier bag….. Instead of one soup each, we had to share one between us. Don’t know if the driver was responsible or the way the shopped packed the food. Reported this to Just Eat and have received a refund.

Delicious authentic Caribbean food. They were also nice enough to give me complementary Salt Fish fritters which I appreciate. 1st time ordering food with this restaurant but will not be the last. Thank you :)

Ackee & Saltfish Dumplings, Pattie & Curry Goat TASTY

It was tasty but it got to me a bit late so was cold

am very disappointed they was rude when I call them the second time they didn't want to speak to me they let hang on phone until click out ,not only that didn't get my food from wont ordering from them again and they wasn't helpful

I order small jerk chicken with rice and peas with a soursop punch. I like my food dry with a little bit of gravy but forgot to mention it to the young lady that serve me. I will pop in again at some point. Apologies for the picture quality but eating in the vehicle and light is a little bit poor. I didn't stop at calabash!

Wonderful flavours & real tasty 🌟

Planting was dry… everything else was just alright…. Dead Caribbean shop

soup was banging and hot today

I bought a beef and cheese patty with no cheese inside, the pastry is nice but the filling needs to be improved the texture of the beef was mushy like it was blended and it doesn’t have a lot of flavour.

would've been four stars but ... Mac n cheese = horrible please never use mozzarella cheese in a Caribbean Mac n cheese it tasted so strangeee n disgusting I couldn't finish it. Food needed to be reheated which was annoying cause I've ordered from other Caribbean shops and my food comes hot. I ordered at 6pm so food should be fresh and hot rice n peas n stew chicken, roti and plantain was nice

These place has been here donkeys years and most of my times the staff have been nice. Food is good 👍

There is no delivery charge. I would like to give a tip. There is presently no facility at present when I pay by card. I do not always have have cash.

tasted much better rice n peas, didn't get part of my order, and gravy wasn't all that neither 🙃

Lovely authentic home made style Jamaican food great welcoming service and atmosphere. My new go to for West Indian food in East London

Absolutely fantastic food, friendly service and I’m a very happy customer

I'm really conflicted about this place because although the food is usually great, the service levels are pretty poor. The staff are slow and can ignore you for ages when you are queuing, so you can be waiting for up to 15 mins just to get served...many a time I've walked out and gone elsewhere cos I'm fed up waiting because I'm on my lunch hour and can't wait forever. A few of the staff are pleasant but on the whole they seem quite miserable and like you are hindering their day when you order...Some of them even seem to have a an attitude and are rude. The charge to eat in is a bit of a liberty. If you pick the right day and get one of the nice staff and there aren't many people in, then you get served quickly and it's a nice place to eat in and they play some nice music...but I'd say this happens only about half the time. Like I say, I'm conflicted.

Nice pattie. I would have like the oxtail and rice in 2 separate containers instead of one container for both. One half of my rice portion was swimming in gravy. I like to choose how much gravy I put on my rice.

Most of the staff are just really rude which is a shame because now I’ll go elsewhere. I would like to direct this at management because they’ll start to lose money, rude!!

Ordered curry goat with rice and peas, mac n’ cheese, coleslaw, roti and fried chicken. The curry was delicious. Meat was fresh and tender, flavour not too peppery and portion size was plenty. Fried chicken was and tasty. Roti was very light and fluffy and again very tasty. Had a little of everything (Mac n’ cheese was firm and delicious and coleslaw was creamy and fresh). I’m looking forward to having seconds later!

Absolutely disgraceful, the driver drove off with my mum's food. I'm never ordering here again

Food was so dry no flavour and definitely not fresh

The oxtail was tasty and the hard food complimented the rice and peas. My one request to all Caribbean takeaways is to consider putting rice and peas in a separate container to the oxtail or other gravy meal. The customer can then choose how much gravy they're gonna put on their rice and peas.

Incorrect received 1 ordered 2 soups and 2 dumplings I received rice and peas and wings and 1 soup

soup was really nice pea soup 🍲

Chef. Meal was awesome as always. Belly full 🫶🏾 thank you very much as always

If you like tasty, good value food, then I would order from this restaurant

food always nice ! yes definitely recommend buying from calabash No1*

Thank you for your great service as always 💯🙌.

The Rice & Peas was good and the steamed veg was very good,but the meat was very chewy hence I hardly ate much of the meat.

Food taste excellent, good portion sizes

Food hit and miss. Rice was hard oxtail needed to cook longer. Staff miserable and unpleasant. Background music good. Calabash needs to fix up

Normally good - on this occasion Patties left in the oven too long , so pastry too hard. Curry Goat good. Salftfish dumpling good.Coleslaw good.

So good to see it's still here :-) Lovely food and service.

I frequently buy soup from Calabash but this is the second time it has arrived and had very little taste as if it had been watered down. I understand the need to meet the order request but I prefer to have good quality food for my money. When it is watered down it dilutes the flavour, the difference of which I can tell as a regular customer. Far better to cancel rather than send a mediocre order as it doesn’t reflect well on the quality that makes Calabash stand out from other restaurants.

The food was okay but having ordered 2 vegetable patties, I was not pleased that I was sent one beef and I vegetable pattie. More care should be taken with the orders because the customer might be vegetarian. As such I couldn’t enjoy my order because I don’t eat beef.

They charged me £3.50 when all I was meant to pay was £0.50 . I want my money back

Very nice restaurant delicious food great customer service

The curry chicken and rice n peas was great but the Plantain was not.

Love the food at Calabash and the portions. Thank you. x

The service at this store is horrendous! They take your money and don’t deliver your food and then lie and say we delivered it. Appalling service there is better Caribbean food shops near buy with better manners. I will never order here again not sure how you have been there for so long. Disappointing shop

Did not recienot at allve order

The food was extremely tasty and well prepared. The food was still hot upon arrival. 😋 I will continue to support this business.

The food was ite. Didn't taste real flavours in the curry goat, and the mac n cheese plain no flavour overall 5 out 10

Perfect as always oxtail was lovely

Three pieces of chicken was disappointing for the price of £27.99p taste was up to scratch.