The Black Olive Cafe Bistro in Islington

Lovely evening. Busy for a Wednesday but charming & attentive staff who kept the delicious dishes flowing. Drank a stunning tempranillo. Well worth a visit.

If you like traditional Turkish food then this is the place for you. We eat hear frequently and my favorite dish is lamb tava, the salad, hummas and tarama are delicious with the hot pitta bread baked onsite in a traditional stone oven. My wife and my son always order classic lahmacun, the table is always full and the portions are generous. what you can't eat, you can take home in a takeaway box. The staff are always helpful and polite and it's always a pleasure to eat here.

Fantastic friendly service Would highly recommend Lovely fresh cooked food we all enjoyed it so much our plates were clean

Had a wonderful time meeting up with an old friend and AK looked after us beautifully. He took every opportunity to make sure we had a wonderful time, including swapping my friend’s glass of Prosecco for a new one as he noticed it didn’t look bubbly enough! Delicious food and fantastic service!

1- if you want to run a restaurant in the UK, have a BASIC grasp of English 2 -any women visiting will feel in a distinct minority. Despite that the place is virtually deserted, the 3 or 4 customers are shuffling men - no female presence anywhere 3 - at least know your menu. A request for the most basic dish resulted in much head-scratching, bespectacled poring over the menu before confused shuffling into the ‘kitchen’. The food -to be honest who cares. If anyone decides they want to enjoy Moroccan/N African cuisine ..just go somewhere else. PLEASE !!!!!! The harira- worm and passable The couscous - dry as the Sahara, (asked for extra sauce - maybe I was speaking Martian. They didn’t have a clue. Lamb- big mistake; huge! as tough as a Doc Marten and the general taste ..,ever sucked your grandfather’s slippers? A lump of warm squash, a lump of tepid carrot - blurrgghhh! It’s an under-populated social club for N African men - NOT - by any stretch of the imagination, a restaurant. They’ve tarnished my love of N African food and I’ll NEVER return. Just awful!!!!! I’m so hacked off with this dump that I don’t care if they don’t cancel my bill. I’d rather eat my own (fill in the blank as you see fit).