The best restaurants serving African food in England

Red stripe, cocktails and hospitality…..Ian was perfect host ….loads of bars that were busy….but this place with family was perfect

Myself and my two friends had such a wonderful time here. As usual we don't joke with my Nigerian food, and I must say we was very pleased . The experience, food and drinks were 10/10. Every one should try the lambchops and Asun !! The staffs are really helpful and friendly. Would highly recommend checking out this place.

So flavoursome. Their soup just like home. Tasty nutritious and wholesome. Very good value for money. My new favourite

Excellent food, so delicious.. really lovely service from the ladies serving - a must try. Enormous portions you’ll take food home, looking forward to trying more

I’ll start with positives, the food was really good. We ordered a selection of the small plates and they were all delicious. Unfortunately, great food isn’t the whole picture when running a successful restaurant. Ambience, appropriate pricing and service are of huge importance - if you just wanted tasty food you can do that at home or the many other eateries of SE19. Beginning with ambience, it was a quiet Saturday afternoon with a handful of customers, all of whom had been packed into one corner despite the place being empty. That didn’t feel very premium. With regards to service i’m afraid it was atrocious. When we walked in the manager was sitting at the bar on a laptop. When turning around to ‘greet’ us it was if they were doing us huge, begrudging, favour by condescending to allow us through the doors. Rude doesn’t do the exchange justice. It was surly beyond comprehension. The young staff they had waiting were very sweet, but inexperienced, painfully slow and mostly absent. With regard to cost it was disproportionately expensive for somewhere with zero atmosphere and awful service. As we left I still said a cherry and enthusiastic thank you, which the manager responded to by ignoring and turning their back to us. For the sake of clarity our party of 3 were all super polite, so i’m not sure what we did to incur the manager’s undisguised contempt. As far as cost is concerned it was woefully overpriced given the above. My feeling is that they are trading on the reputation of their predecessor, and expecting to succeed with zero passion or charm. Given Joanna’s couldn’t make it work after 30 years of being a superb, destination restaurant I can’t see it lasting far in to 2025. I know terrible service is pretty much the norm these days, but you have to at least show your customers a little respect.

Okra and pounded yam was soo good reminded me of my mum. Will definitely be coming back again, will bring my friends and family too

The ones who know about the waiting time at habesha restaurants understand good things comes to those who wait. Lovely food & very nice staff. I really enjoyed the food. And all the meat options made me very happy! Authentic ethiopian and eritrean food.

El servicio al cliente es básicamente nulo. Servidor o propietario fue muy grosero cuando expresamos nuestra necesidad de algo de intolerane de alimentos. La comida era por decir lo menos era muy malo. Estuve enfermo después.

I am not going to lie do not remember much how the food tasted, I know the prawns were on point and the chips. We went for a bottomless brunch, I could not finish my 4th drink, the drinks are strong which is good because other places water it down. It was fun, I will try to go back again. The staff were also nice. The food did take a while but we were a group of like 15 people. I will go back again.

Doesn’t matter what mood I’m in, I’m always in a Nando mood. And I always have the double wrap. This food is incredible, chicken always cooked to perfection (and I’m very fussy when it comes to chicken). The spicy rice is pretty amazing too and I always order the Halloumi. And then there’s cheesecake! This is the perfect night for me and I would absolutely recommend

We bought two packets of biltong today in St albans market at £11 per packet firstly a pricey purchase but we tasted a sample and took these home to find them both hard and normal biltong basically not much taste or spice as we were promised and the chilli one again hard and a 2/10 chilli taste rating my advice would be to steer clear of this expensive brand should have stuck to the local Bok and Rose in How Wood shame really as was hoping for nice fresh tasty Biltong

Very very bad service and they discriminate against their customers. Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

Fast service, and delicious food, came back twice in a row. Make sure you come down !!! You wont regret it. Staff are all so welcoming aswell

Excellent takeaway. Food very tasty..fantastic portions..and in my opinion the best prawn toast I've ever had..and we got a free drink and portion of prawn crackers..

Taste was okay but the portion size was too small to satisfy even a light appetite , salad was overly sour. Overall it was a disappointing experience as we spent a lot but still came home hungry