Ariana Restaurant LONDON

“Good food, served well, friendly staff and a good setting.”

Tom Austin★★★★★

Epic homecooked quality. This Afghani restaurant is a new find and favourite for me - I'm already plotting my return. All staff are so very friendly! They helped make the visit very enjoyable. Fresh selection of juices always goes down a treat, they have an extensive menu and a number of specialties. I share the Qabuli lamb shank - cooked for 5 hours, unreal tenderness, succulent, probably one of the best lamb dishes I've eaten. The lamb sabzi was such deep flavour, truly worth the trip for me. I almost forgot to mention the homemade bread - 10/10 Save space for the epic desserts! The Pers

Dan Lewis★★★★★

Food was nice but we ordered the chicken munch box and they didn't even give us the chicken donner portion so that was very disappointing, just had a small portion mixed in compared to the lamb munch box. I don't understand how you can forget a big component of the meal.

S B★★★★★

Good food, good service, good people, good ambience. We ordered mixed platter and were allowed to make slight changes to it. Bread was cooked in front of you, it was fresh. Very humble server. Adding this to my regulars. We spent around £51 for two people. Food was cooked properly, just right. Good price point for the portions, quality and an authentic afghani experience. In my opinion 5/5. Bit of a hidden gem this.

Ibrahim K★

This place has completely gone down hill. This was my second time ordering Qabuli pillau and they totally ruined it. It's supposed to be sweet rice with raisins. On both occasions there were hardly any raisins and it tasted like having plain white rice. I called back and the guy hardly cared, he just mumbled and sent a box of raisins on its own for me to add! This place was a nice Afghan run restaurant - now it's all Indians running it, with just one Afghan owner. This is NOT authentic Afghan food anymore. They have completely indianised the food!