Melissa Restaurant(Edgware) in Harrow

We’re ordered from here and will never be going back. The hot starter plater was £20 for 3 falafel, 2 pieces of calamari and a cheese parcel. The main portion for the price was also very small compared to a mixed grill special platter for two when we order from other places and not as nice! Not impressed at all and won’t be going back!!

Thanks for everything Mr Cetin , Amazing is an understatement. Staff all incredible and really looked after us, food was so good and filling we struggled to finish. Atmosphere was great and high vibe restaurant. Highly recommend and look forward to going again

Lovely food and very clean place .The price is very reasonable. I highly recommend this restaurant .😋

Very good food, the restaurant is nicely decorated, the waiters are very friendly.

Food was delicious. Service was perfect. Highly recommend

Attended melissa on Saturday evening with a friend. I found the food lovely and the staff very attentive. Complimentary bread with humus, pepper and garlic sauce. Main course I had grilled chicken with rice. Portions were good, struggled to finished. Prices are very reasonable. Found a new gem.

Pleasant atmosphere, soothing music, very pleasant and respectful staff, very good quality food and price, I recommend with confidence.

Customer service was amazing Staffs were very helpful Cleanliness was great

Ordered max platter! Was enough for 6 people..and left overs. Brilliant marination on Shish and wings. Kofte was the very tasty and properly spiced and seasoned. Only let down were the lamb ribs...too fatty. Give those a miss. Wish they had draught beer..however bottle Efes was nice.

Amazing restaurant amazing service amazing food must try the food and atmosphere

I would like to thank Melis restaurant and its team for acting with the understanding of quality food and friendly service, their food is really delicious and perfect 👍

Ordered a takeaway and received the food cold and greasy! Small portions and bad service.

Delicious food and huuuuge portions! Plenty of vegetarian options, particularly enjoyed the cold mezze platter. Quite busy so recommend making a reservation on the weekends.

Great restaurant, popped in after a day out at Wembley and boy was it worth it. The whole experience was very good. Food was tasty and plenty of it, good service from various members of staff. If I'm down that way again we will definitely call in again. Thank you.

Dined in restaurant this evening.. Last-minute decision so had not booked a table. Knew it had moved couple of doors down but didn't expect the warm welcoming modern ambience.. a very nice surprise even though me and my son felt so under dressed in our joggers 😂. We were seated immediately and the staff were so efficient with taking and serving order in a super warm and friendly manner. Nothing was a too much ask.. All the staff were brilliant but a shout out to our main waitress Diana thank you so much. The food was fresh and came out warm with complimentary bread basket served with houmous and dips and the best chilli sauce I have had. Difinitely very good value for money with no service charge. Well done team Melissa will be dining here more often

My review is from an angle of a vegetarian, not a diner who eats everything so I cannot comment on all dishes. Whilst they have a varied selection of veggie items on the menu, starters through to mains, I was disappointed to learn that all veggie fried items, i.e. falafel, chips e.t.c are all fried in the same oil as calamari and other seafood / meats. This to me makes it NOT vegetarian. I appreciated their honesty however and I hope they do set-up a separate fryer which a lot of restaurants do as standard these days. Overall, the service was fantastic, very attentive and courteous and the new venue looks high-end. Good selection of beers/drinks. And my fellow diners were happy with their dishes.

Amazing restaurant with great service. Fresh food and not rushed. Minus one star for not having Tequila Gold which is on the menu twice - but that is being picky.

Honestly the atmosphere was perfect and I loved the decoration, it’s very high end and the food is amazinggggg, I would definitely recommend ☺️

New location new decor Food in old shop were nice!

Very nice food highly recommended 👌🏾👌🏾

Highly recommended one of the best restaurant in Edgware

Fresh and tasty food. Highly recommended

Best kebab in town. Massive portions, great price, amazing taste. I have been buying from them for 4 years now 😉

It was the long awaited opening of the new Mellissa restaurant today and it did not disappoint. The restaurant interior and ambience is superb! The food and customer service is exceptional - and as we have always experienced. We are so pleased we now have a new venue when we feel in the mood to get dressed up and go somewhere upmarket. We highly recommend this venue!!

Amazing food! Loved it always. Visited here like 20th time and always they make sure the food tastes great. Loved their complimentary salad and breads and humus , perfect blend of dressing and sauces is just amazing combination to enjoy your meal . Tried chips with meat and it is good. Must try rice as it’s cooked perfectly and they’re just awesome. All the shish menu is their specialty. You just make sure to tell them “well done” if you like cooked properly. Delicious food!

Although it says hand-made doner, their Doners are frozen, unhealthy , not recommend.

Some customers put their bare feet on furniture, staff saw this and didn’t intervene. Will change rating if this behaviour stops.

We have enjoyed our recent visits I had chicken wings rice and salad and my wife enjoyed the grilled salmon.

This is written mid August and the restaurant is moving to new premises almost next door within 2 to 3 weeks. Even here in the old place the whole dinner was outstanding, including the service. I couldn't fault anything if I tried. And they serve proper Turkish coffee! (Forgot to ask them about the coffee beans they use. Just divine.)

A wonderful Turkish restaurant in the midst of Stanmore and Edgeware. Yummy food, lots of free salad breads and dips, smiling service and the meat platter to die for. The wings, ribs, seekh kabab etc all fantastic. A restaurant not very expensive. A restaurant I would visit again and again. There to celebrate the 90th birthday of a family member and they made it memorable.

The brunette romanian lady she is very kind and nice woman but is a tall Turkish guy who prepares the food there is so rude …….

Lamb ribs were amazing, best I’ve had in a long time. Staff were really attentive and played with my son even though he’s very shy. Very nice experience. They gave a lollipop to him as well at the end.

I got some wraps for takeaway from here. All very tasty and decent size portions. Restaurant was very busy with diners which is always a good sign. Will be returning for more.

Best garlic sauce, amazing salad, and decent bread. Loved the adana kofte

The chicken was exceptionally delectable, with a tender and succulent texture and so tasty.

Delicious food, nice people. Good service. Happy Customer New venue coming

Excellent service and amazing food! Would totally recommend!

Excellent mixed kebab + chips with salad 👌🏼

Amazing restaurant, fantastic service, and tasty food. Had a Melissa mixed platter with family, as a fan of kebabs I can instantly tell the chef has a done a fantastic job. The waitresses were very helpful and looked after all of us. Would definitely come here again

I often eat here and the food is lovely BUT find it mean that lunch time menu is £12.50 , for a small side and then main and the then the Main is with either chips Or Salad OR Rice ,,just for presentation and bit of lettuce and tomato /Cucumber which would cost nothing but look so much better

Amazing is an understatement. Staff all incredible and really looked after us, food was so good and filling we struggled to finish. Atmosphere was great even when we got told of for being to loud. Desserts spot on. Highly recommend and look forward to going again

Great food cooked well,friendly staff and a relaxing atmosphere, would highly recommend, whether just for a take out or to sit in,a very nice place I keep going back

The food is here is incredible. I'd recommend the special platter; all of the meats perfect cooked; tender and tasty. you can tell everything is prepared fresh included the salad that comes with the platter. All of the staff really friendly.

Melissa’s restaurant 7th April 2024: Booking 7.30pm for four people. Went last night, first time, with friends. Very busy and very noisy. Before our mains, we were served complimentary salad, yoghurt dip and hummus. We ordered and paid for more variety of salad as there were four of us. The yogurt dip and the complimentary salad both had hair (a long single strand) in each. When my friend spoke to the owner of the restaurant. He ignorantly replied. You have done this before in my restaurant and if you don’t like it, don’t come back here anymore. To be fair, the food was very mediocre and we will have no problem in not retuning there. If you do go. Check carefully your food does not contain hair.

Very good food, nice atmosphere, good service. I would recommend 👌

Great tasty food at an affordable price

Good food, good customer service, and lovely restaurant.

Amazing service, amazing food (especially the lamb!) and amazing atmosphere - would 100% recommend!

Had an amazing meal here on Friday night. Great menu selection and delicious food. Staff were excellent. Would highly recommend.

Friendly staff and delicious food!

Delicious food and friendly staff.

One of the worst food quality and staff attitude specially at the counter who is taking orders rude attitude seems like the owner with light beard guy .. everything was cold when i ordered mix doner and attitude was rubbish. Cold bread salad was expired completely and doner was like cooked a week ago . I had to throw the entire food in bin . Ridiculous turkish restaurant ever mellisa

Decent Turkish grill Excellent food, not too pricey either

Delicious food and beautiful service.

Superbe moment, un cousin m'en avait parlé avec des étoiles dans les yeux : la nourriture était délicieuse, le service incroyable et l'ambiance excellente. Je recommande chaudement.

Lovely Turkish food and generous portion sizes and great service

We reserved the table for 32 people last night. It was absolutely perfect in terms of food,Arrangements and service . Fresh hot food on time and all together . I Highly recommend .

We went as a work meet up. The food and service was GREAT.

Excellent Turkish cusine fabulous service great portions

Recommended if you are in the area.

Amazing food! Always a pleasure to come and eat there! Very friendly and welcoming staff too.

We was in the area and discovered this little gem on google and what can we say it was absolutely delicious we had a mixed meze starter and a Melissa special platter for 2 the dips was all homemade and super tasty and the bread was lovely warm and soft. We then got stuck into us platter amd the lamb just melted in your mouth it was to die for we opted for rice instead of chips and all the juices from the meat went into the rice too. There was loads here we couldnt even eat it all and the lovely staff members said they would pack it up for us to take home too. We then washed this down with a Turkish coffee which gave us the much needed caffeine fix after nearly going into a food coma for the long journey home. Weve told my partners lad if there team play against Barnet again next season we wont mind driving again just so we can visit again. If you are in the area be sure to visit and enjoy the lovely meats cooked on the coals.

My very first visit with my friend (who has been telling about this restaurant for ages) last night. WOW!! I was absolutely blown away by the really high quality meats , taste and portion sizes … Seriously it was amazing! The level of service was incredible too.. The fabulous waitress Anna really looked after us. Nothing was too much trouble for her and her lovely smiling face and positive energy made the dining experience complete. Then we met the owner who was utterly charming , humble and a genuinely nice guy. We also met the head chef and all his team who were so happy that we thoroughly enjoyed our meal. I will DEFINITELY be going again and ABSOLUTELY recommend that if you’ve never tried this restaurant.. it’s a must go to dinner..

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You enter into an area with a cooking counter on the left with three possibly Turkish gentlemen ready to cook food. In that area are around seven tables, and a toilet. Go to the back of that area and round to the left is another seating area, quite spacious with perhaps another ten tables and a further toilet area. The restaurant appears clean. The food includes a range of starters including sausage, borek, lahmacun, and a range of main courses including doner, shish, meat with yoghurt. All menu items can be viewed on the restaurant website together with prices. Starters are around £5 and main courses around £13-16. I personally like it if in a Turkish restaurant the person taking the order speaks Turkish. Here unfortunately not, so couldn't practice my Turkish. The waitress was very knowledgeable and helpful. However the delivery of food leaves a lot to be desired. You get bread with dips, then some more sauces, presumably for the bread. The bread is lovely. In most restaurants you would then wait for the starters which would arrive together. Not at Melissa. One person's starter arrives with the bread and dips and the other person's starter arrives about five minutes later. No announcement "here is your starter" just put down by dips so you barely know it is the starter. When the other person's starter arrives, instead of the waitress doing what is done in most restaurants and wait until starters have been eaten, then clearing away starter plates and then bringing the main course, at Melissa whilst we eat the starter a salad arrives, which you are unsure what it is for, you then are told it is for the main course, the main course arrives whilst you are eating your starter, so you have the food sitting waiting whilst you eat. It is like ten year olds have taken over the restaurant, are doing their best, but haven't quite learnt it all. The food itself is very good in terms of portion size. Certainly generous. Certainly value for money. However my starter was something I have had in other places where it has been crispier and nicer. The kebab with rice is just the kebab and the rice, little effort to make it look nice, no sprig of parsley or something. The rice tastes bland. The meat is cooked nicely. You are offered sauces. The atmosphere is ok, nice videos, a music video on the wall, nice painting of Turkey with mosques and the sea. They don't offer desserts, they don't ask if you want coffee, they don't give a small baklava with the bill and the Turkish guys near the door barely open their mouths to say goodbye. The food is good value for money, the service strangely unprofessional and a lack of class that other Turkish restaurants often have.

Very nice authentic Turkish place

Been a few times now and will go again, good food, good prices, friendly staff

Warm welcome. Excellent food. Generous portions.

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Amazing food and attentive staff. All the food was fresh and so delicious. The complimentary bread and dips were so good too.

A delightful lunch. The wraps we ordered were gigantic, filled with delicious falafel/chicken shish. The taste was exceptional, thanks in part to the tasty sauces that added a burst of flavor to each bite. Service was impressively fast, and while waiting for our order, we enjoyed some freshly baked bread that was a pleasant and thoughtful touch. Melissa certainly knows how to make a meal memorable with their generous portions, flavorful ingredients, and efficient service. We'll be back for sure!" 🌯👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🍽️🏺

By far the best kebab in London! No drop in quality at least from 2016 since my addiction to this place started! The team is fantastic too. Thank you Melissa!

Food is great, always. Service could be significantly improved. Maybe it was just the person serving us, but she couldn't follow the order properly, brought water instead of a soft drink and then charged for that glass of water with the price of a soft drink and wouldn't budge when we spotted it on the bill, eventually refunded by another staff member.

Delicious food and big portions. Friendly staff.

Fabulous food and a great value

Best food , lovely and helpfull staff !!

Love this place! Service is great and the food is amazing 🩷

Food really good and really well priced.

Excellent food . Bright restaurant. Some upgrade need soon but well worth a trip

Amazing staff defo get the platter next time you come the wings are to die for also amazing venue cannons park

My favourite osakbasi restaurant featuring lovely, plentiful food, reasonably priced drinks and friendly service. Can be a bit noisy, but that's life.

We came here once again, because the food was so good last time, and we weren't disappointed this time. We tried the lunch menu this time and it filled us up very well. Food was as amazing as we expected. Will definitely be back when we are back in London.

Great food. Small delay on service atmosphere was alright.goof for veg options too!

A warm welcome can be had at this Turkish restaurant. The decor provides a great atmosphere which you would not realise if walking past. Excellent attentive service. The food is fresh and superbly cooked. Parking is on the street.

I keep on going back the food is lovely and worth the money. The staff are very professional n kind, polite

Great food but lack of English staff struggle to understand..

very good quality for service good personality

One of the best restaurants in the area and still going strong. The service and food are amazing alongside generous portions and perfectly done meat!

Always exceptional service and high quality meat and dishes whenever I visit here. The flavours are unique and the place is always busy. Sometimes there are ques and waiting times but that is normal due to the popularity of this restaurant. Its well worth the wait and visit. The wings, chicken shish and chips are always a must for me and the sauces are all homemade and delicious. Definitely recommend to others worth visiting

Great food, the Adana kofte is amazing and also their chilli sauce is very good, must try. Service is lovely too, fast and efficient

First time here tonight and was such a delight. The food (halal!!) was totally worth it - the portion is so so big per person, and the free Turkish tea was just the cherry on top. We were served by Mandeline (apologies if spelt incorrectly) and she was so very kind, all the other staff were so polite too. Best night out with family. Even the interior was beautiful and felt like home away from home. Highly highly recommend this place!!

Good tasty food , tender kebabs, reasonable prices. Staff is very polite and helpful.

My niece had a 50th birthday meal at the weekend on sat , with lots of family and friends who came from across London to join her to celebrate , my niece herself actually lives in Yorkshire and in the past she has always enjoyed your food so that’s why she chose yr restaurant to celebrate , And again on this occasion you didn’t disappoint , as always the food was lovely and service was great thank you . Sue

Order the platter for 2, and chips. I always have the chilli dip...😋

Well well well! Such a poor performance by Mellisa. Today I went after work to have a nice dinner and I was alone bcoz I came just after work. The girl toke my order (skendar kebab) and left then she came back with just sauce and 4 peach of small bread and humus. Where as usually they bring humus, garlic sauce salad and two more sauces. So I was waiting for my salad which didn’t turn up and my food came. So my understanding is that she thought oh this guy is alone just give him one source and that’s it. Reminder for Mellisa that I am always there with my partner spending at least £40 to £50 (worth mentioning that we always leave £5 to £10tip). I am very disappointed that they just look down on you bcoz they thought one person not gonna spend a lot of money so service should be minimum. By doing that they just lost a customer that go there every week. Recommendation for people going to Mellisa restaurant alone don’t go. I might rather spend my money somewhere else. Mellisa you just lost a valuable customer.

Attentive servers, great food and good portions.

This restaurant is incredible. The food was delicious and staff were very friendly. Worth every penny. Thanks all

Food and service were excellent

Best Turkish food in London..the service was very good, the staff was very kind and polite. I will definitely come back again

I went there with my family welcomed very polite staff was very Kind and helpful will be there again. I definitely recomend this place