Julienest in Barking and Dagenham

If you not Ghanaian don't go. It's only catered for Ghanaian people. Music is Ghanaian and any other people are just not welcome. That's what I felt.

The location is good. The place is over crowded, the service wasn't great to my expectations. I ordered fried yam and chofi, it took over an hour for my meal to arrive. Was charged £11 for a bottle of Stella, when one of the attendance was told, he just said, " no , you were not over charged " without even asking me why. The service was very poor . It's a scam. A lot of improvements needed.

Very nice location. Unfortunately, the place gets crowded due to the live band on Friday evenings. I think the staff should have a better control of the crowd. The tables are not well cleaned after use and pieces of food are left on the floor. We waited for 2 hours to receive our food after placing the order. The staff seemed overwhelmed and not professional. The food on the other hand was d great. Tasty and flavourful. I recommend you go there on a less busy day or order a take out.

Great atmosphere, will definitely visit again.

Takes a while to get your food but when it arrives it’s worth the wait! This is my go to takeaway spot in Barking. If you want to dine in, I highly recommend booking a table on a Friday night as they have live music which creates a vibrant night scene.

Hands down my favourite Ghanaian restaurant in the UK! I have been going to Julienest for years and spent many special occasions here including the meal after my registry wedding. The food is authentic, consistently good flavours, always comes piping hot and comes out quickly (contrary to bad experiences I’ve had at other Ghanaian restaurants). I sometimes treat myself to a takeaway when I can’t be bothered to cook. My go-to’s are Waakye, Banku & Okro soup or Omotuo. Their Akonfem is lovely. Their kebab is also very tender and succulent, but quite spicy. The decor is very nice, Afrocentric and welcoming. They have good music (sometimes a DJ) and sometimes a live band on Fridays and Sundays. Can get very busy and crowded on Sundays.

Was very great, there was a a live band and it was lovely, was there on my birthday had lots of fun

PISSED OF THEY TOOK MY ORDER 4 PEOPLE & I DIDN'T EVEN GET NO FOID 4 MISELF I PAY OVER £1500 ON OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS FOOD & GOT NOTHING. NOT HAPPY @ ALL. THEN I TRIED TO ORDER TAKE AWAY & THEY TOLD ME IT WAS CLOSED I SAW THEM SERVE OTHER PEOPLE. 1 PERSIN TRIED 2 HELP. FEEL SO PISSED OFF. IMAGINE 2:03AM A LADY HAZ AORDERED KEBAB & HAS GOT BUT THE KITCHEN IS CLOSED REALLY KMT

The food itself was tasty however this place needs to be closed down and staff need to be trained or the business model needs to be updated. It took 45 mins for my food to come (unacceptable) for takeaway and I had to keep going in and out to check if it was ready. There should be a dedicated staff member dealing with orders. I then drove off home, ready to enjoy my food only to find out that I was given the wrong order (meat instead of fish). I was so annoyed (this was 9 something in the evening) and had to go back hoping that I would be taken seriously. All I was offered was the correct order. No apology. No explanation. No refund and no gesture of goodwill considering all the wasted resources in just trying to buy an ordinary meal (time, petrol). I explained to the lady who took my order all of this and she just shrugged her shoulders. Please avoid this place for the simple fact that the customer service is poor and giving someone the wrong order could cause issues such as allergies.

This was my first time eating at a Ghanaian restaurant, so my expectation was very high! The staff member did not welcome me and my partner. We then sat at the table, met by a miserable waiter. To make matters worse the restaurant was freezing which affected our whole experience. This also impacted on the foods temperature, turning the food cold quickly. We ordered chicken wings starters and for mains jollof rice, kebab, plantain coleslaw with shito at the side. The food was tasty but again food's temperature was not hot. I suggest that the establishment should really look into heating the dining area, especially the weather being very cold. The restaurant has a lot of potential but the service and freezing temperature was a disappointment. I hope they can sort this out.

So many things went wrong. 1. Our guests could not be seated until the whole group had arrived. 2. The service was slow, sloppy & the waiters all seemed overworked, overwhelmed & miserable. 3. They forgot orders, served our drinks in red plastic cups and one of our guests received his mains 15 minutes after we all got our food. 4. The tilapia was extremely over cooked, their meat platter had only chilli on it -no real taste. The unfortunate situation is that the person who’s food came 15mins later is also the one that had the worst RedRed (plantain & beans) - it was disgusting. There was not even palm oil in the beans and it was bitter. 5. The floor manager agued with us about either returning the RedRed of refunding it - rude and aggressive management. 6. OVERPRICED!!! For the low quality of food and ingredients, crappy location, shabby service and ghetto toilets. The live band started around 10 instead of 8pm 💀

they completely renovated the place from the last time i was there and it’s soo welcoming, i was there with friends and yet again they did not fail, amazing food and great service

This place did not meet my expectations! I got there around 7pm. Unfortunately the food was not fresh and the waiters were not very friendly or accommodating! Only 1 waitress was fiendly. Went on a friday night so got to see the live band, they were so good.

The staff ,place and food are all top notch. Had a lovely experience

Absolutely the worst experience I have ever had in a restaurant!!!! firstly the music is so loud that the staff can’t hear you much less can you hear anybody at your table. They took 20 minutes to come and take the drinks order and 30 minutes to bring the drinks was told twice that they had no Ghanaian Fanta when they did They just didn’t want to go and get it from their front bar. I didn’t get to try the food because after waiting two hours, they still hadn’t brought out our order when we complained, they argued with us and tried to keep the birthday cake hostage wrestling me for the bag that the cake was in. They made the birthday girl cry on her birthday because they ruined her celebration and entire night and Instead of apologising for the poor service they wanted to argue with all six women, the male manager got a very Confrontational and aggressive rather than apologise and comp the £40 worth of drinks that we actually did receive They insisted that we pay and were very very rude. I could honestly say looking around that nobody actually seemed that impressed and most people weren’t eating. I would never ever recommend this place to anyone and I definitely will not be returning.

Mostly delicious and spicy African meals at a reasonable price.

I really enjoyed the meal and had visited several times. Very friendly staff and good setting in terms of seating arrangements though not enough space. I would recommend this restaurant to anyone who wants to enjoy good Ghanaian cuisine 👍

Vibes are excellent but service is absolutely RUBBISH! Just be prepared when you order food to wait almost 2 hours!

Best Ghana Jollof you'll find in this country for sure! I will be back for more.

An amazing experience with fantastic delicacies.

Beat Ghanaian local restaurant in the UK.

Great food (Jollof + Rice). Great Service.

I and my partner ordered for banku and tilapia(dined in) and ordered for Jollof rice and meat for takeaway and they took forever to give us the Jollof rice and on top of that they did not add the meat we requested for and when we asked for a refund they disregarded it and have not made any compensation, I must say the customer service is appalling.

Is an Afro pub and just love every bit of the vibe 😍

Had a good experience of freshly cooked food and dishes. The owner is the most welcoming person one van ever meet . Thanks for hospitality Sir 👏👏

Overpriced with shitty service 😒

Worst Ghanaian restaurant I’ve been too. Management are rude and inattentive. They brought out our starters and mains at the same time and got angry when we asked them to take the mains back. If you sit inside, the music is so loud you can’t hear yourself think. The food is basic and overly spicy for no reason. We asked for a shot of rum, they brought the shots out in full size glasses. Clearly they need basic training in restaurant etiquette. Avoid !!!!

Magnificent and motivational experience has energised my feelings... Thank you very much 👏

A very perfect eatery, food is 10/10

As a Ghanaian, I will recommend Julienest for every Ghanaian to go and experience our local meals and feel at home. As a non-ghanaian, this is the best restaurant to feel Ghana. From our local drinks to meals.

Great restaurant, but their food takes long

First time eating Ghanaian food and it was a great experience! We ordered the jollof rice with chicken, nkatenkwan and palm wine. The staff was great and fellow patrons were super friendly too. When our food came the table beside us could see we were new to the cuisine and helped us out! Live music really added to the atmosphere. Would definitely recommend.

I had very terrible experience at this restaurant yesterday with the food when I visited.I had some banku and okra stew and grilled tilapia with some sauce on it. The Tilapia seems ok but the sauce on it has gone off and complained to one of the bar attendants to tell the manager. The manager didn’t even come to our table to apologise and nobody said anything to me which I found a bit strange but just kept my cool. I’ve had food poisoning this morning and my stomach is so hurting.which isn’t cool at all.

Atomsphere was lit !!!!!! Observed the lady serving at the counter last Fri was friendlier to males than females .The gentleman serving with her seemed irritated and flustered .

I visited for my second time and unfortunately was hugely disappointed. There were so many issues - I had to wait one hour to get my food - and this was even the main (although I ordered a starter). Then had to wait another 40 minutes for the other 2 mains (and this was only after speaking to the staff several times). The food was okay but one of the orders was also wrong. If was difficult to voice these concerns, especially as the music was very very loud and it seemed as though there were not enough staff.

Brings fresh memories of home sweet home. Food was great. Will visit next time I am in London.

The place was actually nice but everything else 0/10. The staff was so busy forgot orders and added extra items on the bill I understand busy times but the food took over 2 hours to come and when it finally did it was cold. The kebab was undercooked. The meat on the stews were burnt, plenty cooking oil on the beans( which I was surprised was not palm oil) ,yam oily and the fish a bit plain

I have been there twice recently. I ordered fish on both occasion. The presentation was good. Food was nice but the fish was very dry and hard on both occasion . I told the person who serve us when we were leaving.

My first time going to Julienest with my mum. We had such a great experience!! The food was absolutely amazing and the service was on point!!

The food was nice and authentic but the wait time was just ridiculous; Wait to be seated, wait to get food and drinks. The staff were nice enough but if the wait for a table is 2 hours (even though we were promised 30 minutes) I just expect transparency. If they said 2 hours I would not have been upset with my extended wait time. Even when seated the food took more than an hour to come out. I arrived at 6 and did not leave until after 10. Very delicious food very poor customer service

Great ambience and the food was awesome bursting with flavours. The staff were friendly too.

Great live music on Friday nights attentive service and good food definitely a good Ghanaian restaurant

Lively bubbly atmosphere. Very busy. Get your table early! Delicious food (decent prices), fresh palm wine. Good music, good vibe. Staff were lovely - very accommodating.

Visited this restaurant some days ago. The exterior could do with some work to tidy it up and maybe some lightwork landscaping. The inside didn't captivate me enough, to be honest. It was a bit too dark and dingy for me. To the food. It was my first time eating Ghanaian jollof. It was tasty, but it was sticky, but maybe that's the Ghanaian style. My tempura prawns were nice. The salad was crunchy and nice. I found the toilet to be unpleasant. The toilet roll holders in the toilets seemed broken. The 2 toilets didn't seem clean. Thankfully, I only needed some tissue. Generally, I think some more work need to be done aestheticly to make the atmosphere appealing, but the food was ok.

Nice place to hang out, I visited at a less busy time.

What a Jewel in the the centre of Barking. Such a friendly welcome. We were treated like Royalty. We highly recommend before a show at the Broadway Theatre.

Absolutely warm, relaxing, welcoming experience . The staff are friendly and professional and food is amazing!

Exceptional restaurant! Highly suggest it for Ghanaian cuisine and entertainment. The service is outstanding, with incredibly polite and friendly waitresses. It's a truly enjoyable and exciting experience, and the food is delicious.

Amazing Ghanaian experience in London

Bad customer service Nobody attends to you to even say hello to you

I placed a takeaway order but the restaurant left out some items. I then emailed many times asking to be refunded for the missing items only to be ignored. Very disappointed and not great customer service unfortunately

The food was amazing, the service was excellent and the music so inviting. However we waited 1hr and 30 to be seated and another hour and 20 min to get the food. While the management could do better, the whole experience was great. When we left people were still waiting to be seated. I suppose that when the food just touches your soul and its so affordable it doesn't matter that it's takes a while to reach your table. The wait is worth it. ❤️❤️❤️

29th December after hearing so much hype at Juliefest we visited with 4 friends. Called and was told they can't book tables. Arrived at 8.30pm place was crowded, waiters were rude, drinks arrived an hour later. Place is disorganised. By 10pm our food still had not arrived.. if you were 29 December was a cold night, security guy came and switched off the gas heater next to us so we were sitting in the cold, no food or drinks. Eventually we got so fed up we decided to leave. Owner rude and aggressive demand payment of £80. For food that never arrived, poor service and a health safety fire hazard. Never again I thought I'd patronise my community but I'd been better off going to McDonald's. Please stay away from this horrible place. If you want Ghanaian food try Rhapsody in Watham Cross run by a Achimota ex student. Civised and well run .

The Terbo Security Staff are spot on. Doing a great job by keep the people and premises safe for good atmosphere, enjoyment and business.

Reception was cold in the first place. Me and my friends had a bad experience, we were virtually sacked whilst we were still eating, because they wanted the table for others. The manager/ owner needs education.

Food was fantastic….. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾herrrrr….am coming der again…..I loved it 😍😍😍😍I recommend this place for all Africans especially Ghanaians

Wonderful atmosphere and very welcoming and friendly.

Was there with my mrs on her birthday, food was great, fantastic atmosphere, massive improvement. Well done to Ernest and his team 👏

Really good food, staff were nice and atmosphere was friendly

Great venue, music, food, service - highly recommend! Decently priced and great portion sizes, I will definitely be coming back

I was there a couple of months ago i was no impressed. Jolloff rice that i ordered was burdid not taste good. Things that i did not order was added and charge. I could not go bac because i did not have time to go back do not go there i will never recommend that placce fo any one to go

Went with my cousins for the all white and all black party hosted by Alordia. Great vibes if you want a taste of Ghana in London. Nice comfortable chairs, nice staff and food. We had their kelewele, kebab and a lot of drinks.

Haven't had their food yet but it looks great, service is excellent, friendly staff too. Great vibe

I love this Ghanaian restaurant, lots of variety . Palm wine was my favourite

Amazing place, quality food and service is fantastic.

Bought banku and was charged £20… it’s disgusting what is been sold for 20 and taste awful too! I’ll never east or buy again even if it was for free…. Stay away from this restaurant

It was horrible, ducking crowded, horrible service was waiting for over 2 hours no food, no table. It isn't worth it. Don't go there it's the worst possible. I don't recommend at all.Its messed up. I wish I can give a zero review. I hate it

Great nice space. I will come back again

The waiting time is very long and they forgot most of our order by and only to let us know after 3 hrs time. Very poor customer service. I think these are left here so they can work on their services. Hope to see a change a next time if I visit.

The customer service is very poor. The wait for food is is very long. There is a lack of coordination between the kitchen and the waiters. Good ambience masks the below par customer service. Needs to improve.

Great place for Afro-Caribbean dishes.

I order rice bal with peanut soup but the soup was like it has been added more water to serve more customer, red stew was around some of the meat, meaning original soup meat was finish.. no taste of spicy, I ask for kids menu and they didn’t have kids menu so I have to order adult meal for my daughter which was too much for her age. Like to chill there but eating there is Noo for me. Bar staff are rude,

Very very poor standard of food delivery, presentation and customer service illiteracy. I have eaten both at the venue and also called in to place and order only for a very I’ll mannered gentleman to answer the phone, couldn’t express himself properly in English language and also to rudely hang the phone, when I switched to speaking Twi with him so we could communicate better. This is absolutely unacceptable customer service behaviour. Gosh!!!!! The Attitude is so bad.

This thing called kelewele was burnt and tough but as I complained, the big guy CHANGED it for me! Awesome👌🏾 service.

It was my 4th time visiting and once again I was not disappointed. I went for dinner yesterday with the friend and as soon as you enter you are greeted with a DJ playing the latest in afrobeats which is loud enough to hear and shake a leg but not loud enough not to have a conversation. I ordered the jollof with chicken, whilst my friend ordered the red red. We drank local palm wine which was very authentic. I went after 9pm so did not struggle with parking. One of the best Ghanaian restaurants.

Omutuo with Palm-nut Soup this time and I enjoyed it

My food came 2hrs after my friend's. Wasn't nice as I had to watch her eat and she had to wait for me to finish mine before we left. Lovely place though. Loved the African - Ghanaian vibe.

Awful waiting time and incompetent waiting staff. Had to leave after 2 hours of not being seated

The food is fantastic but the business as a whole is terrible. You can never find them on any of the delivery apps, though google shows they are open. When you try to reach them by phone, the line is always busy. It seems they do not value their return customers at all. Disappointing to say the least and extremely unprofessional, if being a reputable business is proving difficult they should consider shutting down and not misleading the public. 👎

Too much Headache finding parking... too bad. Aside that the food is very good as well as services.

Very nice and so original African food ……highly recommended 👍

Place is very nice place, however a disappointing experience. Everso disorganised and no eye for customers. Waited at the entry for 30 minutes. Had to walk to the bar to enquire which took me 10 minutes to catch a person's eye to ask about being seated. Told 30 minutes wait but was not invited to sit at the bar or where to wait. Highly embarrassing for me as I encouraged my sisters to try Juilenest. I went back to the bar to ask if me and my sisters can wait there without knowing when and if we would be seated because the lady just said 30 min and walked off. There's no ticket system for waiting or any way of knowing when you would be up and i was not informed of how i would know when we were due to sit down. Once seated at the bar we were ignored by the bar staff who clearly saw us sitting there including the owner who had BOSS written on his top. Finally a lady in yellow actually asked us if we wanted a drink. Waited at the bar for an hour, without being acknowledged or told when we would be seated. Two hours here and still not seated. Very hungry so let me ask about takeaway, will eat it in my car. When i tried to signal the female owner who advised 30 minutes, she said one momnent and never came back. Even to catch a member of staffs eye to order took us approximately 30 minutes, till I signalled the BOSS. He advised Saturday's are normally fully booked. I recommend he update his website to recommend booking a table if you want to eat in on a Saturday. Sorry unable to comment on food due to lack of service. I recommend you have patience and be ready for a long wait! In total 3 hours to eventually get a take way, when i was out dine in to celebrate my sister's birthday.

Great food! Great experience! And the venue is beautiful. I was there yesterday at the Ghana independence event and the vybe was so unique. They should do that often! I will sure be back!

What a great find!!! I happened to go to a Ghana independence event, and there was a great turnout, fantastic ambiance, great live band. Looks like their Saturdays are usually busy, but the staff did their best to accommodate everyone when possible- both at the bar and when seated. Great tasting, fresh Ghanaian food. Can’t wait to go back there for another event. Would personally recommend.

Cosy and friendly place. Good food and good selection of beers to try!

This is exactly how the food arrived via Ubereats. I think presentation can be worked on, as well as taste. The chicken was way too burnt and the jollof lacked flavour and was too mushy. Please do better so we can fully support this Ghanaian owned restaurant. Thanks

First time eating here, on a whim decided to try something different while in Barking. We had the light soup with fufu, tsofi, spinach stew with fufu and club beer. Everything was fresh, hot and really really good. If we come back to the area, we'd definitely come back for the food and highly recommend if you like authentic Ghanaian food to try it!

Absolutely horrendous! This restaurant needs to be shut down (I've informed my local food standards authority). The food was stale, all they do is reheat food from the fridge, the jollof was made with maggi cubes and decorated with sweet bell peppers, they even had the audacity to put 3 pieces of gone off chicken on top (I had to throw the whole thing, as it smelt soooo bad). The spinach stew was stale and the red red I ordered never arrived. I read the reviews prior to ordereing and thought let me try it out and support a local black business. What a BIG mistake the reviews are all true about this restaurant. The kitchen staff missed an item on my order, did not take any accountability except shout at me - the paying customer and insist that I pay again! The people here all belong in an asylum, because they're all mad! (Including the receptionist who answered the phone). If I could rate it 0 I would. Never again! Save your coins, this black business is not worth your hard earned coins! This restaurant needs to be removed from all delivery platforms (uberEats, Just eat and everywhere else). You've been warned⚠️

Great, totally authentic, Ghanaian restaurant. The Waakye is excellent, just the right amount of spices, etc. plus they serve Club beer! 👍😃

Food was ok, unfortunately the wings tasted a bit burnt also I wish they went a little easy on the salt (that is just my preference) 😅. This was my first in this restaurant with my young children and we came across men swearing while watching football 😩, I think they initially didn't notice kids were around. Other than that, it was alright.

We arrived early, before 5pm, and discovered that they had no vegetarian options. But they were so kind, they created a lovely veggie meal for us anyway. Thank you

Terrible service. Waited for a while nobody came out front. This was 27/07/2022. Do better please.

They have a variety of delicious Ghanaian meals and drinks.

The food was not nice, especially the gizzard no flavour and very watery. I wont be going back.

I highly recommend this to anyone, good food and nice environment.

Called restaurant telephone Number three times however no response.

If I could give a zero star I would. I Ordered food worth over £60 and received about £15.00 of the order. The person on the other side of the phone sounds incompetent. I couldn’t even eat the food I received because I just didn’t feel like eating sth that was made by someone so rude and ignorant. First time wanting to taste Ghanaian food and what a disappointment. Not recommended

Great service, would visit again

Honestly am not going to lie the food is good BUT when a customer says I want to order COLD food cos am travelling far. They always, always don’t get it right. We know the food is not made to order 😏😏. It’s in the fridge so give me what’s in the fridge that’s all I ask. It’s not a Chinese takeout when I know regardless it’s going to be hot . They just need to listen that’s all. It’s annoying

Their services are very quick and their meals are super duper tasty. I ate from that place a consecutive 3 days😂