Tasty African Food in Croydon

It was a lovely experience overall at your Thornton Heath branch, except that the stew for the rice and beans was too small.

The starters at this shop are quite enjoyable, with items like puff puff and meat pies standing out. However, the main dishes are disappointing. As someone familiar with Nigerian cuisine, I found their jollof rice and fried rice to be lacking in flavour and quality. Unfortunately, the customer service is even worse. From the moment I walk in, there’s no acknowledgement unless you’re a familiar face, which speaks volumes about their integrity. Even when placing an order, the staff act as though you’re inconveniencing them, adding to the overall unpleasant experience. The lack of respect I’ve experienced makes me hesitant to return, but as the shop is local and I can’t make puff puff myself, I find myself in a dilemma. Please see the attached image. I can confidently say I have NEVER received the kind of service described in their poster. I had to take a picture because the irony was too much to ignore.

Lovely atmosphere, amazing looking food, the people are lovely and willing to explain what everything is for those who don't know (me). The little fried dough balls are amazing and the whole place is super cheap. I love this little gem.

Good food, great value for money

Their food is very tasty 😋 and their service is top notch. Very friendly staff and polite in their relationship with customers

I love their food and their customer services is amazing. I enjoy getting their gizzard and stick meats. Their meat pie, moi moi, puff puff, jollof rice and yam porridge is yum. Their chicken, shaki and pomo is nice. The place is very easy to locate near the road side and very near inside. I highly recommend this place.

Very rude treatment 👎👎 from the treatment side. I would not be honored to return again

Food not delivered but I got charged. I called the restaurant and the lady was so rude. Poor customer service

Hi, this review is mainly for the management because i've been noticing this trend for sometime now, where your staff suspiciously remove the prepared dates and BBE dates (sticker) on the take away packs. This is NOT ethical and very questionable. I am now going to be on a mission to take pictures to be sent to the food standard agency at the associated council. If there is nothing to hide, do not take out the sticker. This is so unprofessional and unethical!!

I’m from up North but when me and my hubby come to London we always love food from Tasty, I went the shop for the first time today and the woman at the counter was rude and I only had card so I went to my friends and ordered food online with Uber eats. The food came quickly (had to pay extra) but the rice was disgusting. How can you mess rice up?? I ordered beef stew and white rice and I wish I ordered jellof rice. If you’re going to order from here definitely do it before 4pm because after that the food tastes like left overs.

The originality is mouth watering

Ordered on the app and called the store as I was collecting much later in the day. They were very understanding and nice, really easy transaction and the puff puff was great.

I had a disappointing experience. Despite the food being good, the service was terrible. The staff appeared unapproachable and were not willing to assist with unfamiliar dishes. I was embarrassed by their behavior, and I have decided not to return to this specific branch. I hold myself to a high standard of respect, and I don't want to cause a scene or be disrespectful in any way.

Today I went with my daughter to this shop and we wanted to buy a product that cost £1.50 but we only had the money to pay between £0.01 and £0.10 so just coins but they didn't accept the money because they say they don't accept cents!!! What stupidity is that... money is money, right? they have a business and I was going to buy their product. So my daughter left sad. We used to shop a lot at that store. but we will never return

Lovely good at a reasonable price, great service and a nice atmosphere

The service was fast, staffs were very friendly and Manager was amazing. Great customer Service.

Lovely restaurant, quick response/ service time and the manager is a delight.

Nice n tasty Nigerian dishes n snacks. Jst like d name.

It was okay but portion sizes were too small

Yeah, I was here few days ago, the food, awesome, the service, outstanding, friendly staff members and welcoming and beautiful atmosphere, really nice!

What's the point of advertising an opening time if you never open at that time, and when you eventually open nothing is ready. Listen to the gentleman today who waited in his car for 12pm opening only to wait more for items to be ready. Please thank you, sorry for waiting is all good customer service. Why does half the item on your menu have no stock after 3pm? Well the meat pie is tasty which is why I visit. Reading the other reviews don't think there'll be any improvement but at least people will know to visit after your advertised opening time. This is not a one off occurrence

Is okay, they did try with the Efor but it's can never be like back home. There was lots of oil

I visited Tasty Thornton heath today, I'm a regular customer. And much to my chagrin the price of food had skyrocketed. However I wasn't made aware of the price increase before hand. There's nothing on the wall to inform customers about the increase, can you ask your servers to make customers aware of this before they order. It's common courtesy.

Unprofessional. They don't pick up the phone. So what is the point of having a phone? If the job is beneath you then go where is good enough for you and let people who want the job take it.

The presentation was good but the food was not up to 'my' expectations. The fried plantain I bought was cold and the fish was a bit blant, I over heard the lady telling the delivery guy the 'toilet is for staff only' so he can't use it, how about the customers?...

They've dropped in standards. The food is displayed badly and the manager has a horrid attitude. There is no menu. The food still taste good however

My Nigeria foood. Love it 💯🔥👌😋😋🙏

Nigerian grub....and tasty at a good price point

Terrible slow service…. Waited 20 minutes and wasn’t even served…. Staff look so depressed never smiling and rude customer service…. Don’t go here waste of time and money

Nice trendy, fingers licking African meal

Nice sit in Affordable Gentle Excellent customer service

The puff-puff, moinmoin, vegetable soup with assorted, meatpie, hake fish... 5 🌟. When a food joint has a queue which snakes outside the door and people do not mind waiting, you know the food is amazing. Kudos!

Anytime after 4pm and most of the decent food is often sold out. If time it well, the options are good and the portion sizes pretty decent

It's ok, but definitely not the best

Got me thinking... wondering if am in naija, they're good

Food is absolutely TASTELESS! My gosh! For African restaurant it's unacceptable, twice we have purchased food and both times the food smells off the next day! Rank and bad smell, Clearly it isn't fresh, seems to be sitting there for days! No flavour in the stews, rice, chicken is hard like concrete, will never buy from this place again.

The food is good, but the hot paper in vegetable can be too much, need reduce

Very bad customer service! They mess up your order and show no remorse.! How can the service lady also be shouting on the phone after she messed up an order?! Very very bad restaurant

I love their meatpie. My child loves it more. And they foes the mini kids size. Their snack its tasty as they are called.

Sadly i can't eat and buy food at the restaurant any more . The below soup I found a tin can tomato lid finger handler in the soup. Most annoying thing was that I got there next day and reported that this what I found inside the soup the staff member just said sorry. I told her I had to disposed the food as i can't it because it might cause me a food poisonous. No further action from them since then. I've advised my family and friends not to patronise them !

First time going there. Customer service good. The puff puff was lovely Their jollof rice was quite delicious As we all know, from day to day food sometimes doesn't always taste the same. I am giving 5 stars based on my first visit there.

Sent the wrong items and half full. Gave me 4 Plantain for a medium order. Phoned them the following day - told to " go look for the manager'. Very rude people - though admitted they were busy and that's why order was wrong - no apology or attempt to remedy - will never buy from them again.

I just bought jollof rice fried fish turkey leg plantain I received meat, fish, plantain all in one container, the meat they put in there was tough and the fish had no fish in it pure skin, when I phone then to discuss about my order and to let them know I was not happy with it, i was told what i paid it would be Turkey wing when I have order from here before and got turkey leg, I just spent over £16 for some disgusting food which they never even offered to replace so disappointing, also while talking to them the phone cut of I tried calling them back several time but they did not answer I will not be buying from here again

I just ordered from here, half the order was missing and parts that came incorrect. The portion sizes were also ridiculously small. I will not order from here again.

Always up for good pounded yam,be careful your order doesn't get messed up

It's a take out. Food tastes ok. A little bit pricey. Staff seemed a bit tired so maybe they have been working through the covid-19 months. Ok place to order and they follow the social distancing rules.

The redefinition of African food. Absolutely divine. I wish they give me the recipe for their smoky flavour jollof rice😍

Beautiful Worth a visit, good prices, upscale service.. easy to reach..

Poor customer service. Service is often slow, they need to learn to serve quickly

Nice and friendly staff. Food gives you the sweet taste of Africa.

Terrible customer service. Waited 2 hours still no food

Absolutely appalling. I ordered stewed drumstick chicken and instead of them contacting me and seeing what I want they replaced it with dried turkey. The person on the phone was rude and acted as if they were doing me a favour. EVEN though i'm a paying customer. Also, they did not rectify the situation. 100% would not recommend.

Tasty food, definitely worth 5 star

I'm disappointed with their little shop at Thornton Heath. The food I got wasnt properly packed and the fried fish was the most ridiculous I've even tasted in my life. So burnt it tasted like charcoal I had to go brush my teeth. You people can do better with the portion as well. Just copy the business operations of the Tasty shop at streatham and all might be fine. I wouldn't recommend this restaurant and I'm never trying it again

Terrible customer service and incredibly rude staff who don’t seem to really care about or even know what customer services is! Just thought I would give them another try, but after placing an order to be picked up a good half an hour before the restaurant closes, I was told that they would be at the back Counting money, and that the restaurant actually doesn’t close at eight as advertised on Google, but actually closes way earlier than that!!!!

Jollof wasn't got enough for me

Don't understand Why African restaurant like tasty so stingy with meat come on a quid fi little ant piece of meat like that's how much it cost for a bite size. Meat is chip at unless singing music of onepoundfish by Abdul down market Health is Wealth not but not in your tiny portion with big money not Big God. Crying out Lord fix up. I advise people to see think twice this restaurant does not give you big potion... Man size. Comfort food not served you get a child like stingy potion served like from an evil step mother pot. Want u to go hungry. Meat aint expensive . Caribbean restaurant beat the odds. Dish out more for people's money.aint no big African pot at tasty.

Worst African restaurant on earth. Got bumped twice!! Word of advice, never consider ordering from these people.

Okay, where do I start....if I had reviewed Tastys a year ago, I would have given it 3 stars as the Jollof rice had a not so pleasant smokey taste. The recipe has since changed and it's now delicious, tastes like proper Naija jollof! The puff-puff is simply sublime, dodo's (plantain) are very more-ish as is the moin-moin. The aptly named Tastys delicious cuisine is their achilles heel, as they've often sold out of the aforementioned foods before dinnertime. It's such a shame and why it doesn't get the full 5*

Really good food but if you're ordering in large quantities please tell them to keep your chicken aired for a while so it doesn't start spoiling

They refused to take responsibility when i had food poisoning from soup i bought from them.

Handy African dishes but too expensive

Not be in told the right information of the different types of food

The taste of Tasty’s food is in the name (TASTY)😋

Great customer service and east to get to. Parking is a bit hard to find. Better to go in the afternoon/ late afternoon before 6 as food runs out quick. Delicious food.

Food is gr8 u knw your usual 9ja food. Like it cos it's local & anytime I'm feelin lazy & yawnin for home/9ja food I go holla @ those gr8 ladies to hook me up. Lol

Just as the name, the food is very tasty and staff are very polite and friendly.

The food was it fresh and I found the girl that works there so rude.

Most of the food is okay but the jollof rice always taste smokey, it has a burnt taste.