Good food! This small family run restaurant is a great…read moreoption for dinner in Islington! The food is delicious and has a lovely home-made quality about it. Come early or make a booking!!

Affordable and tasty - a great place for a lunch break…read more It may look like a takeaway place but you can actually sit down and eat. As you walk in, you only see one communal table, but there is more tables upstairs. The menu is very straightforward. Four veggie options and four meat/ fish ones. You get a side of rice with your main. That's all. We had a aubergine dish, a daal and a fish stew. Aubergine was a bit bland, but everything else was good.

Food 4.0/5.0 Service 3.0/5.0…read moreValue 4.0/5.0 Decor 3.0/5.0 Overall 3.5/5.0 Food was good. It's the same family as the Ariana in NYC.

Inside is very clean and authentic to Afghan culture. Service was great, Hamid was very nice and…read morewelcoming. Food was good, we got the family grill for 6-8 but it can easily feed 10 in my opinion.

Unforgettable Christmas Dinner at DARBAR Restaurant!…read more We had the most incredible Christmas dinner at DARBAR, and every dish was an absolute masterpiece! The flavours, the quality, and the warm ambience of this amazing restaurant blew away my entire team. We tried the Lamb Karahi (Karahi Goosht), Afghan Fish, Chicken Kebabs, and Lamb Kebabs, each cooked perfectly and bursting with authentic Afghan spices. But the star of the night was the Qabuli Palaw--honestly, it was out of this world! We've never tasted rice so flavorful and delicious. Afghan cuisine stands apart, and DARBAR is the best place to experience it. We can't wait to come back for more! #AfghanFood #AuthenticFlavors #DARBARRestaurant #ChristmasDinner #LambKarahi #QabuliPalaw #AfghanCuisine #FoodieExperience #BestAfghanRestaurant #LondonEats

We attended a business dinner with a few colleagues and had a wonderful time. The service was…read moreexcellent, and the food was delicious, especially the lamb kebabs and chicken kebabs. The restaurant is very clean and spacious, spanning two floors with many tables both on the rooftop and the first floor. It's a fantastic venue for business dinners and meetings.

The waiter was friendly and hospitable without being pushy, I was offered complimentary soup whilst…read moreI waited for my order. Food was lovely, very tasty with its own flavours making it different from other Afghani restaurants. The Afghani Tikka lamb, well marinated chunks of meat, was beautifully cooked with naan and a refreshing salad. The fried aubergine in tomato sauce was the highlight, delicious, my father's Egyptian so I've had a lot of aubergine, this was really tasty. Lots of garlic and big juicy pieces of red pepper. The spinach palak, tasted so creamy, although it wasn't. The pickle was a surprise, similar to Punjabi pickles I've tasted, with large pieces of pickled ginger giving it a taste of it's own and actually those green beans were chillies, I discovered as hiccups ensued. The Firnee was a creamy milky dessert, thickened slightly with ground almonds, and spiced with cardomen. A new favourite. Portions, rather than being overly large as some Arab restaurants can be, instead was about just right and prices were modest. For 2 of us it set us back £20 for which we were well satisfied, with a little left over.Very tasty and friendly service, we'll be visiting again

Incredibly good food for very little money Friendly service…read moreand authentic look. Good place to share food with friends

My husband and I had the lamb Kabuli and chicken sabzi. First of all the portions are huge, so make…read moresure you share whatever it is you order. The kabuli was amazing, the chicken spinach dish was alright. The naan was great. Overall this place is great for groups and couples.

Invited to an Iraqi feast, I could not refuse, even though the region's cuisine is not my first…read morechoice. Dry chicken, fatty kebabs, soggy baklava later, it is still not my first choice. And, as it seems with many English restaurants, staff wasn't interested in service, leaving much busing of the table, including folding the paper tablecloth, to the diners.

Amazing quality Iranian food, great service , great value for money. And nice ambianceread more

When I was there the some the meat was not halal. I knew this because I went with 2 of the people…read morethat worked there to pick up their meat in a massive bristish meat factory, I had questioned this and the one replied 'shhhh don't tell anyone' I was mortified. Not only this but they stole from a girl that got abused and had her future taken from her, she had received compensation for the abuse that she recieved to help with her future but could only recoeve this at 18 and that same iraninan that had worked there selling non halal meat saying its halal had manipulated this poor girl and stole her compensation for what she could have used for education which was 16,000. Behrouz Shah Saied Shah and Ali reza all worked together to plot against her and steal her future. Most Iranians will do anything for money even kill.

Vegetarians avert your gaze now. Fresh juicy halal chicken. For some reason though the chickens…read morehere are not very big. I don't know why - do they not let these chickens age and get fat?! They are tiny - but nevertheless fresh and tasty. For too long Hendoner's have been trekking to West Hendon to undertake extensive negotiations of the price per chicken - £2 vs £2.50 you say? In any case it was long overdue but they finally opened a butcher in Hendon Central and its definitely worth the visit. The lamb isn't half bad and the price is reasonable. Plus the butchers will take their time to give you the best as you like it. Clean and healthy.

Kinda hard for me to review as I know nothing about Afghan food ... So my menu selections were…read morecompletely random with the inevitable danger of finding all the dishes that least suit my palate ... So with that in mind ... Venue is one step up from the places that have selections of food in metal trays kept warm all day ... Not that I mind eating like I am a Roman ... But basically this is stew and rice or grilled meat with salad ... You can more or less watch the flat breads be cooked to order from the street. I don't know that I would recommend a trip out of anyone's way to eat here (I am sure there are more convenient Afghan restaurants if one has a burning desire to tick off another nations food tasted) but I would say if you need to eat and kill time at Shepherds bush it is worth popping in drink tea and eat. You won't leave hungry and poor which is a good thing ...

What a lovely, serene place. Tucked away behind the Finchley Road tube--a favorite of mine because…read moreit's nice and shallow and doesn't involve vertiginous descents on an escalator. The house salad combines greens, halloumi, avocado, mint and pomegranate sauce. This with two shots of single-malt Scotch was the perfect fuel for a long evening at the theatre. I especially loved the music.

The food is excellent, with large portions at very reasonable prices. Service is excellent and the…read moredecor is very ethnic and artistic. Turn right out of Finchley Road station and it is right there.