Manjaros Manchester in Manchester

Great service from Rajesh and great recommendations about the food. Will definitely visit again.

Went there on a Saturday at 8.30pm. Got a table straight away. Didn't think we would considering it was bank holiday weekend. No delays in food arriving, despite it being busy. The service was exemplary. The manager, Sandeep and waiter, Rajesh, we're both so polite, professional and considerate. If you not happy with anything, they listen to you and try put it right. Food was reasonably priced. Atmosphere was great. Highly recommend for a good night out. Ideal for family, couples or bigger groups. Good food, good vibes and good aesthetics!!!

Bone dry overcooked chicken, dry rice, totally unedible. Also ordered Mac & Cheese for kids, and the chef thinks it's just boiled macaroni with some grated cheddar cheese top, baked in oven, then topped with crispy onions. Seriously? Unless they change their chefs, this place need to be avoided.

The food was yummy. Service was quick. The staff were polite. We will be back again . thank you

Rajish was a great help to us and the food was

The food was nice and well served

Amazing experience will never stop coming back here Was served by Florence amazing service really helped us to pick the best options on the menu.

The meal was flavourful and comforting—the jollof rice was well-seasoned, the cheesy chicken tender, and the plantains sweet and perfectly cooked. I was served by Florence, who was friendly and attentive, which made the experience even better. However, as a South Asian with a high spice tolerance, I ordered the maximum spice level and still found it quite mild. It’s definitely tasty, but if you’re after serious heat, it might not quite hit my mark.

Very good service from Florence

Florence really looked after us and was a great waitress. Food was great 😊

Really enjoyed our food at Afrikana today! I would definately recommend the loaded fries! The staff were really friendly and welcoming and service was very quick.

Nice restaurant, great food, good staff and highly recommended. 👍🏾

Food was good but the service was really poor, took nearly an hour for food to come and they don't accommodate seating preferences even when there are plenty of seats/booths available which were clearly not booked.

Tooo good Florence was fabulous and amazing she is fab

This is the second time I have been to Afrikana. I came with friends during Ramadan as this place is 100% halal, and serves a variety of African inspired food. When we arrived, we had to wait on the sofa as the tables were all full, but the waiters were friendly and ensured us a table was being prepared. Five minutes later, we were taken to our table. There is lots of seating available both downstairs and upstairs at this restaurant. Upstairs, we put our stuff down and asked for a prayer room. Afrikana has separate prayer rooms for men and women. The prayer room was clean, and had a little window where you look outside. The toilets were also nice and clean. When it came to ordering our food, the friendly waitress Florence asked us if we wanted our starters first, and that sometimes they can come with the mains, but we didn’t mind at all. To break our fasts, for free, we were given medjool dates, grapes and water. How lovely! For starters, we ordered the Lady’s fingers, Let’s taco bout it, and Hummus and bread. All the food was delicious and my friends and I thoroughly enjoyed (and finished) everything! For mains, we ordered the Butterfly chicken, Fish and chips, Rotisserie chicken, and mocktails. No complaints :) The chicken and fish were cooked perfectly, and the flatbread in the Rotisserie chicken was not dry or rough at all. We were very pleased with our meals. Overall we had an amazing Ramadan experience at Afrikana. I highly recommend this place to everyone looking for some yummy, flavourful and also spicy food!

John was very nice and helpful and made sure we had everything we needed highly recommended

John and lamaya were great! Food and service very good!

John and Lamaya were lovely and made us feel very welcome

This place used to be great. But has fallen badly. Restaurent was at 40% capacity. 2 of us went and were made to sit on a smaller table even though bigger tables were totally empty throughout the time we were there. Wanted to order a sharing platter but were told it was impossible to switch out 1 side. Other menu items were not available. Ramadan platter was unavailable (*even though its Ramadan). £15 for 3 very dry and tough lambchops. Over priced...poor service. Wouldnt go again....

Florence served us at the restaurant and took care of us, was incredibly kind, attentive, and knowledgeable. She made thoughtful recommendations and ensured everything ran smoothly, making our evening truly enjoyable. I’d highly recommend dining here.

Always a hit and miss for some reason. The actual taste of the food was great. The BBQ chicken, the chicken was too dry though and I had the same complaint on previous reviews. Chicken Mac and cheese is just dry chicken pasta. The chips are spot on though and service was great. The consistency with the food just never happens to be there.

Honestly had really high expectations but it was so so disappointing, the nachos were completely uncooked and tasted stale, when we told the staff they just came back a couple minutes later saying “oh it was uncooked”, service was also really slow.

We came as a group of 7 on 22nd March, but were given a table better suited for a game of Monopoly — barely fit 5 people, never mind 7 hungry ones ready to break their fast. We had pre-ordered the Ramadan platters, expecting at least a little something to open our fast with. What did we get? A couple of grapes and some lonely-looking dates to share between seven people. Honestly, I’ve seen more variety in a toddler’s lunchbox. Service? What service? We were greeted (if you can call it that) by a guy with a moustache who nodded when we asked for menus — and then vanished into another dimension. Allergy menu? Still waiting. Water? Eventually arrived… with 2 glasses for 7 people. When we asked for the rest, it felt like we’d asked for the moon. Food came out without warning — no chance to order more starters because boom, here come the platters. By then, we’d accepted our fate, sadly, it didn’t save the evening. Everything looked better than it tasted, and even that’s saying something. Bland, underwhelming, and just not worth it. On the way out, we tried to politely tell Mr Moustache that he forgot us. His response? A dirty look and silence. Maybe he thought we were part of the décor. Overall: vibes 5/10, food 6/10, service 0/10, moustache 10/10 (but only in visibility, not helpfulness). Won’t be returning unless it’s to drop off some menus they clearly lost.

I loved having Kiran as a server overall, I just had to leave a review (I never usually do). The place has great food and good vibes. 10/10

Give Vivek a raise. Very hospitable and made the experience at Afrikana memorable

Vivek was great, hospitable and funny. Great vibes.

Overpriced dishes which were bang average. The jammin jambalaya had very portions of chicken and like 2 prawns so definitely not worth it.

Food soooo tasty and Florence was very nice looked after us 👍

Amazing chicken and lovely service from Florence!

We thoroughly enjoyed our 10 year anniversary of our marriage here, the staff were lovely especially the young server John Martinez we had, he was full of live and sang us our wedding song when we were eating our meal. Will definitely come again!!

First time and definitely not last. Absolutely wonderful place, wonderful atmosphere, wonderful staff all at great service. Food was amazing the flavour the texture we were amazed thank you for your great hospitality. Big thanks to Florence and sandip they looked after us very well and polite.

Rajesh gave us the best customer service.

Amazing food and service by Vivek. Will definitely be back again.

John was amazing. very friendly and vivek was kinda cool too

John gave me a taste of africa 😍😍😍

All hail JOHN the King of customer service!!

john was amazing he ate my jollof rice when i told him to, 10/10 customer service

We came with my family for iftar. The food and service was amazing. John, our server, was incredibly kind and got our food very quickly! He also gave us free dates at the end. Amazing service!

The food was so good and our server John recommend the best items on the menu for us, taking into account my sister's nut allergy! Definitely will visit again after having such an efficient and kind server, along with the great vibes of the restaurant and cultural food.

The food is delicious and service is wonderful thanks John

Thanks John for the great dining experience

John and Vivin were both really helpful, seated us and explained the process for iftar that evening.

John was an absolute rockstar!!!! The food was so good and the atmosphere was amazing!!! Someone stalk John and leak his schedule so everyone can visits when John is here

Vivek was very friendly and attentive, John was aight (he was also very welcoming and helpful) foods banging too 10/10

The food was exquisite, and the customer service from John was delightful. He even licked my plate clean when asked! 10/10, would return

John really knows how to balance those mac and cheese bites like an otter!! 😂

Food was immaculate and perfectly cooked. Couldn't have been better

Food and service was good, Tajsh was so professional and very polite and has a good customer service

Amazing food, lovely staff members x we ll definetely be back soon❤️

The best service everyone was really nice and helpful and welcoming. Especially Rajesh, had such a nice time deffo reccomend!

I visited today with family and spent £162.00 We got 2 sharing meal platters, mac and cheese, mojito It was iftaar time and when the early guest came they were given fruit to open but we were not so we had to request these. The food arrived and the food for the early guest came first. The steak was hard and chewy. The rice were Luke warm and must have just been reheated as they were busy for iftaar. The orange juice was not sweet and the rice were not tasty at all. Then after 40 minuits our platter arrives and i was shocked to notice it was visibly burnt. We told the waiter and he just replace 1 piece of the chicken but give us breast when the leg was burnt. We then told him and he changed after 15mins when we have already eat. Ordered water and it never came, however when we ordered soft drinks and mocktail then they arrived immediately. Then asked 4 times for jug of water and when it's iftaar time u expect water to be given straight away and not after 30 minuits and asking 4 times. The service was absolutely horrible and I will be making a complaint directly to the management.

Incredible, the food was to die for !!! Big shout out to chef Abou 👨🏿‍🍳 what a credit to the restraunt with cooking skills like that 👌🏼 Our waiter was Sandeep, who was super friendly, attentive & professional, giving us recommendations on dishes as we were stuck for choice. I also saw him cleaning every given chance, serving, handing over orders as he appeared to be the only member of staff at the time, literally multitasking, he even managed to get some paper for my toddler who was being a little bit of a madam! ( Thank you, Sandeep ) Overall, the place was spotless, the toilet smelt lovely & again spotless even my toddler said ' mummy it's clean ' food impeccable, very flavoursome, brilliant portions & well worth every single penny! The mac & cheese was 😍😍😍 heavenly 😋 We WILL be back & we definitely can't wait to try the brunch menu as well. Lastly, another waiter who came on shift half way through our meal, Rajesh was also friendly & professional. Oh & our mocktails were super nice i just wish they were a little bigger as they were amazing 👏🏼

Really nice and environment was excellent and the customer service was great…..Raj.

We went for the most expensive platter. The chicken was quite small and as were the portions of rice. The peri peri marinade was a tad too sweet on the chicken however the afrikana sauce was very tasty.

Food especially the chicken the awesome restaurant was nice toilets clean little bit pricey but overall good experience

the goat curry was so tender definitely recommend

We were served by John Martinez who was an excellent for us, was very polite, treated my family very well. And was extremely efficient at his job. 5 stars No complaints.

Great service and waiting! Would recommend again! 🙌🏾

Our waiter was really nice and respectful.

Do Not Eat Here! Staff are Absolutely Horrible, unhelpful and more than rude, aggressive towards myself and my partner. Food average at best.

This was amazing restaurant, the food was amazing. we was welcomed by John. He was kind, friendly person. Made us feel welcomed and he came to check up on us with a smile on his face. Thanks again John for an amazing welcoming. Deffo will come back again.

Good food, good vibes! Decent portion size and good value for money. Peace out from the guy with the golden tooth!

Wow what an amazing place, thank you John for the hospitality, I enjoyed it 100%

John was a fantastic waiter. Great service from him throughout the night. Food was good, and atmosphere was nice.

John and Lamaya served us today and they were amazing. Super kind and they recommended us the “All at steak” and the “Spicy chicken date” which was so delicious. The mocktails were crafted very beautifully and very refreshing. I can’t wait to come again

John was a fantastic waiter, great service!

Thank you to Sandeep for great service and great food thank you so much for making our experience so much better

Amazing African flavours from all parts. Had the bunny chow and the mutton curry soaked into the bread was really delicious!!! Thank you Vivek for you suggestions and being so hospitable to us, can't wait to come back👍🏽

John was a good with the service! Would recommend

Great service by John funny guy

second time coming here and it was lovely! lovely service

Went there a year ago and just wanted to let you guys know there food is amazing, my cousin worked here and he took me in for the double meat menu thing and it was amazing

Kan was very kind and accommodating especially with our 2 kids

Food was top quality and the service was exceptional and class. John served us well

Had a splendid time especially with our host John… he was super nice and helpful with our orders

Very, very, good food! Loads of flavour & great service. We had a great night

The food is incredibly flavorful and lives up to the hype—spicy and delicious! However, the service could be improved. While not all staff members were an issue, we did notice that we had to wait longer for the bill and sauce compared to other tables. A bit more attentiveness would make the experience even better.

I had an amazing dining experience at Africana! The food was absolutely phenomenal—full of rich flavors, perfectly seasoned, and authentically prepared. Every dish was a delight, and you can tell they use high-quality ingredients. The service was just as impressive. George, our waiter, was exceptional—attentive, friendly, and knowledgeable about the menu. He made sure we had everything we needed and added to the overall great experience. If you're looking for delicious food and top-notch service, Africana is definitely the place to go. Highly recommend

John was amazing! Super timely with clean up and very hospitable.

Cheers John for your service, food came quick and was delicious. Get the chicken date it's amazing

John was very hospitable and patient waiter.

Lovely food, fresh and flavourful chicken wings. Our waiter Vivek was friendly and super informative of the menu! Will definitely recommend to friends/family. Shout out Vivek.

Amazing food & service! Thank you John & Vivek for paying great attention to detail - so much better than the downstairs people :)

I just ate at Afrikana, WOW the food was amazingg, the mac and cheese with pulled beef was like heaven, the halloumi fries 🤤🤤the food platter was fantastic, never tasted such succulent chicken! , we were served by Vivek and Nikki!!! Great hosts!

Food was super delicious! Thank you Raj

First visits was for my friends birthday dinner it was nice food was good so I came back again with my family for the second time the food was tasteless not cooked properly steak was hard and burnt, kids burger was plain no salad no nothing just bun with one dry ass chicken fillet there was 3 other tables that couldn’t even finish the food and left the food you should have seen the food wasted.when mentioned to staff about the food not cooked enough they did not listen and said that’s how it was supposed to be which is not staff was very dismissive to customers me and my family will not be visiting here again

I wish I could get my time and money back from this experience. This restaurant is what i imagine someone who went to Jamaica once and opened up a african restaurant. Nothing about this place is authentic african food when I seen the jollof rice I thought it was a joke and the taste god where in africa are they serving this jail ? Everything on that menu is a joke only nice thing was the chips and for an african place that's is crazy. And Lord the service u would think they were bringing the food from Africa but everyone got a different plane. If u dont want to eat african food, eat at different times and waste money then definitely come here it's what your looking for.

The sharing platter was really good and really filling. Second time here and will definitely attend again

Good food/service Sandeep was an excellent waiter.

Enjoyed the meals. Sandeep was also amazing, and very knowledgeable about the meals

Fair and honest thoughts. Food was cooked well but could have been more flavoursome, although I liked that it wasn’t spicy. Overall average. Presentation is very nice, but tastier food would have been better appreciated. I did think it was overpriced, even for Manchester. £25 sirloin steak does not come with an accompanying sauce. For reference, my £14 dish that had just a several strips of lamb weirdly DID come with a sauce. I did expect more meat on my plate, but it was taken over by a huge cube of brioche bread, as shown in the photo. Service was very speedy though, I must say. Nice place and pleasant staff. I wouldn’t make a return trip based on this experience, so unfortunately I don’t recommend.

Although the food was not authentic African and Jamaican, it was really good. The food did not take long to arrive and the staff were friendly. The atmosphere within the restaurant was fine with music playing in the background, will definitely go back again.

Nice atmosphere, bit squashed if you have a baby though. Food was really good 👍

lots of variety along with a diverse new menu pulled lamb tacos were succulent and flavourful brioche french toast with fried chicken made and interesting combo overall would recommend

The first time my family visited, we were pleasantly surprised. The food arrived quickly, and we agreed to return the following week to see if it was just a fluke. The next time, we requested a table upstairs, but our request was declined. Ten minutes later, we noticed other guests being seated upstairs. Our orders were forgotten, and we ended up at a cramped table. When we complained about the size of our table, the staff did not respond positively. I didn't eat, and we had to pack up the remaining food. We vowed never to return.

Monet provided us with great service. Really enjoyed the food

10/10 roast best Sunday roast I have had

Great service from John, highly recommend this restaurant and service was great.

Great service from John, made the experience very enjoyable

The food was lovely and the staff were friendly, John in particular was very helpful ..,