Machan Kitchen in Islington

So yummy, would 100% recommend!!

Brilliant food and atmosphere - so lucky I live near this place! The Egg Hoppers are fantastic❤️

Had such a lovely Tuesday lunch, they were kind enough to let us dine so close to closing. You have to try the chicken kothu and the fried sprats!! A beautiful take on traditional Sri Lankan food..100% recommend! Simon was such an attentive host and the atmosphere as very relaxed, perfect for a date.

the devil chicken was so good and service was great!!

Such delicious food! It’s a lovely restaurant with great service and lots of dishes to choose from

Great food, great options even for veggie! Would def recommend

What a great restaurant! Friendly and efficient service, absolutely terrific food. I had the salad and fish curry. I’m a foodie and have spent a lot of time in Asia. This place is legit great!

Delicious and comforting food! Lovely service! Definitely recommend for a dinner!

Delicious food - lots of veggie options and everything was so flavourful and fresh!

First time trying Sri Lankan food and it was delicious. Very nice place, very friendly staff and great service. Would definitely recommend.

Food was excellent Service completely let it down, we had to wait to order for about an hour, arrived at 7 and food didn’t come out til 9. After having to wait all that time, they then ruined the birthday cake by pressing the box down onto the cake, and ruined the whole cake experience. They didn’t seem to be bothered about it either. All the dishes were also dirty, marked all over. I’m not usually one to complain, but the service was poor, at best. It’s a shame because the place was so busy, the food is good there is no denying but I wouldn’t go back for that service.

Brilliant authentic srilankan food 🌟

Great food , great vibes and an amazing bartender. Parth was amazing!

We had a good experience at Machan Kitchen overall- the food was good with good portion sizes. We ordered the jackfruit curry, which was good but could have had slightly more spice in it as it was a bit mild. The hoppers were amazing and definitely a dish i recommend. The main feedback I have is the restaurant is small and can get very noisy, which made it very difficult to enjoy a meal and a conversation as we could barely hear each other.

We had lunch Sri Lankan taste with great service,coconut sambol, beef curry,fish curry batu mogu, no words to say . All were delicious

Amazing flavours - easily as goods as what we ate in Sri Lanka. Will definitely return and recommend.

Great time here having Sri Lankan food, the service was amazing and very attentive. The Wildlings, Jackfruit cutlet, Kottu were a few of the highlights! Definitely a good recommendation to try!

Fab evening! Excellent food and service thank you!

Amazing experience, accommodated 15 of us excellently

First time having Sri Lankan food and it was delicious! My favourite was the Goat curry, the paneer and the lotus dish. Lovely service and nice atmosphere!

Great food and amazing atmosphere !

Sooo delicious, it hits the right spots - especially the seafood dishes. The spices were tingling and the heat was heating. We had the chilli lemonade mocktail which we will be having again for sure. 10/10 would recommend to everyone.

This is a truly fantastic Sri Lankan restaurant, with a wide choice of authentic dishes. Delicious food and amazing friendly service. We cannot wait to visit again.

Really delicious food & great atmosphere!

Delicious dinner! Lovely atmosphere, great service and really lovely food, would recommend

Food was amazing. Everything was so good.

Wonderful food and super quick service - will be back ! :)

Beautiful meal, I had the goat curry which was the perfect spice level, plenty of meat and sauce. The service was warm, friendly and inviting. Sadly I was only in the area for work or I would already be planning my next visit back...

Wonderful food and very kind manager

An incredible experience at Machan. The food was authentic Sri Lankan food and service was fabulous. Especially loved the hot butter cuttlefish and the black pork curry!

Lovely food - great atmosphere. Would highly recommend the fish curry and Kothu roti. A must try if you like Sri Lankan food or are keen to try it.

delicious food!! great flavors, textures, and overall experience

Lovely dinner with very friendly and generous service! Would definitely recommend if in the area

Generous friendly waiters and delicious food, will definitely come again!!

The best fish curry I’ve ever had !!! So tasty and the staff were so nice

The aubergine curry was delicious and vegan options clearly labelled, just wish there were more veggie options. nice atmosphere too :)

Excellent food! My tastebuds were blown away. Great service - would come again!

Super tasty veggie/vegan options!

Great food and amazing ambiance :))

Great selection of flavourful food. Warm service as well

I absolutely loved this place! Had the bitter gourd salad, prawns in shell and herby rice. OMG. Loved it!! An absolute taste explosion. Traveling for work and just nipped out for a quick bite but next time definitely meeting friends here so we can try more things, it was fantastic.

Excellent food. The spices mingled and danced in my mouth. A lovely Birthday dinner with my close ones.

Incredible flavour with the vegetarian dishes.

Loved the goat curry and the hoppers. We also had butter prawns which were very succulent!!

Good food, the goat curry is very nice

Tasty food. Nicely decorated with bamboo furniture and bamboo roof. Highly recommended for eating out. Good price-quality ratio.

Lovely food and great personnel. Will be back. Special thanks to Sinan & staff for wrapping the leftover in a takeaway.

Had an amazing meal and Sinan was a very lovely host. Will be back!

Lovely experience and service, the food was delicious and Sina was very attentive

Excellent food, great service, definitely a thumps up excellent👏👏👏👍👍👍👍

We absolutely loved the food (big shout out to the calamari, crab curry, kothu, hoppers and the jackfruit cutlet!) and drinks! The service was amazing as well!! Special shout out to Chethika and his colleagues for their hard work, and the drinks at the end of the night! :) Only downside - We were a large group so we sat downstairs, however there was a little smell that was coming from near the toilets which affected our experience a little but otherwise it was excellent and we really can’t wait to come back again! 4.8 stars!

Great food! highly reccommend goat curry.

Delicious food - the aubergine was spectacular, daal stunning, fish curry gorgeous. What a great find, thank you so much!

AMAZING food and really lovely servers :)

Amazing food, loved the fish curry and aubergine!!

Avoid at all costs. I wrote an honest review before this one and was then contacted by a member of the staff on Facebook (!!) completely inappropriate. Mediocre food, poor hygiene standards and untrained staff. The restaurant also reeked of ammonia or some gas and when we raised this with the staff they appeared clueless. Another worrying aspect is the lack of any awareness of allergens - I'll be raising this along with a few other points with the local authorities shortly. Avoid unless you want to be harassed by the restaurant staff after leaving a review.

Wow delicious food and authentic sri Lankan tast .highly recommend for every sri Lankan food lovers.kott is awesome tast .I appreciate all service in the restaurant team..😘✌️

Food tast top of the town, very good vigan option too. excellent service.we will be back for sure

We came in on a whim and really enjoyed our meal! The staff were really friendly and attentive. The cashew curry with green beans is lovely, especially with the roti. Well worth a visit!

Excellent food, would highly recommend the kottu and mutton rolls

Very good place, I took the crab curry and it was amazing, so tasty. It was my first time eating Sri-Lankan food and I enjoyed it so much. Nice service as well, I recommand, and I will come back

Delicious food, perfect for a group dinner!

Amazing food, feels like in Sri Lanka! Would 100% come back

Very tasty and authentic Sri Lankan food!

Honestly food and service was fantastic and all for a very reasonable price. Will return

Extremely disappointed with this restaurant, for a first discovery of Sri Lankan cuisine. We were very poorly advised on our dishes. We asked several times if the dishes were very spicy, if yes we wanted as little pepper as possible the waiter said ok. And surprise, the dish was super spicy... Almost inedible. No adaptation of their cuisine to the customer. Their only excuse when we indicated our disappointment: the French you are "sensitive"... No comment. Food without more, excess pepper kills the taste, we do not feel the subtlety of the flavors... Chilli pepper is dosed like spices in cooking. Being used to eating dishes from around the world, big disappointment. In short, expensive and not crazy...the Google rating and reviews do not reflect our experience at all.

It was an amazing first Sri Lankan experience! :))

Tasty Authentic Sri Lankan food - especially enjoyed the fish curry of the week!

Fantastic experience - all of their curries, roti and rice were brilliant. Perfect range of spice levels too!

Really good food. Kottu in particular sas super tasty. Service was great, they ran out of desert and added something on the spot (some yogurt with honey)

My friend and I had a great time at Machan restaurant. The food was authentic and we had a great time with amazing service provided by the staff! Thank you!

Fantastic Sri Lankan place. High quality food and lovely service. Would recommend!!

Amazing food, really good prices, great service! Proper Sri Lankan experience!

Amazing. The butter prawns are delicious!

Sinam was a great host, and the food was amazing, need to visit Sri Lanka soon.

Very welcoming staff, very good food, an all around good experience. I recommend the crab curry.

Amazing foood and even better service!!! The black pork was the best. Goat curry and beef stew was also amazing. We also tried the hoppers, mutton rolls and Kothu and they were all brilliant. DOG FRIENDLY!! We had a great time - thanks to the amazing team!!

Perfect food! Quite authentic restaurant! Only thing I really disliked was a light toilette smell every now and then

I went to this restaurant with my partner who is Sri Lankan as we've been on a mission to try all the Sri Lankan restaurants in London. Out of all the ones we've been to this was our favorite. The food was delicious and came quickly, my partner said the tastes were very authentic. The setting was lovely and even though there weren't many people there was still a lovely atmosphere. We will definitely be coming back, especially for the dhal!

Really nice place to come to, have been many times. I like that the curries have been different spice levels at different times but I forget they are happy to adjust to your needs. I don't mind, the food is tasty. I like that the mutton rolls had lots of meat in them. The goat curry is my favourite. We were nicely full and it's reasonably priced.

Great food, great value, great atmosphere

Always great food and well spiced, had spicy beef strips, black pork curry, a milder and sauced fish curry with string hoppers, egg hopper with all the right accompaniments and the cabbage and coconut side - lovely. The mocktails are delicious. This is an easy going authentic restaurant jand at ust over £30/ head great value Will be back to try the goat curry ....

Came here for my birthday meal and couldn’t have made a better choice! Fish curry and chicken situation in were mind blowing. Cocktails great too. Might come back tomorrow it’s that good…

Delicious super fish curry and lovely staff - would definitely come back again!!

Amazing crab curry and really friendly staff - definitely planning to return!

Lovely Sri Lankan authentic food atmosphere and decor were lovely and service was top tier. Will definitely be coming back!

Great customer service and great authentic Sri Lankan food. Thoroughly impressed!

We’ve been to this restaurant a few times and have always had a good meal. The food is flavourful and has a proper kick to it!

Nice staff and atmosphere, the food was okay but nothing special

An absolute gem! The food was incredible - crispy, flavorful mutton rolls, deliciously spicy chili paneer, and rich fish and goat curries paired with fresh, soft roti. The service was also warm and attentive, highly recommend for a genuine Sri Lankan food experience.

Best sri lankan food ever… the food is amazing. Especially the chicken situation, the best!!

The food here was delicious! Lotus root curry was amazing, a lovely spot!

Nice Indian restaurant just around the corner from busy Kings cross. Simple and enjoyable dishes at reasonable prices. Certainly an option for a quiet evening dinner with well-made Indian cousins.

Really friendly owner, the fish curry was very tasty and the roti paratha just like in Sri Lanka :)

The best srilankan taste you can get in the city of London, must try is the hoppers wildings which is wild boar with lunumiris

Service could be improved as well as very bad smell coming from toilets (avoid tables close to it..)

Excellent food, great staff, would come again and again

I enjoyed the parippu! And the lotus curry

Loved it here! Cheep and tasty, service was quick and really lovely

Amazing. Inexpensive and cheerful.