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Termeh restaurant

Termeh restaurant

2 Canfield Gardens London, NW6 3BS, United Kingdom

Grill • Persian • Vegetarian • Mediterranean


"Mahdi is my go-to place in the neighbourhood when I want to stuff myself silly with the Persian delights available with them especially served as a delectable, generous buffet. It has great location, just as you take the first right turn from Finchley road station, towards Canfield Gardens. Hard to miss, being, in a sense, next door to the massive Waitrose (not its entrance side but the left one). Its buffet that I speak of with such overwhelming love is something available seven days a week, during lunch hours. Mahdi’s interiors are beautiful – warm and mesmerising – lovely stained glass work, even better tile work, traditional warm-toned cushions and on the walls, haunting prints of Persian-styled paintings, right out of Rubaiyat as if!!! The buffet is an unlimited spread with different items every time. I have eaten off their a la carte menu as well – some of those items naturally feature in the buffet from time to time. These usually include some sort of barbecued meats mainly CHELOV KEBABS with lamb and/or chicken; HOMOUS; MAST-O-KHYAR (like a raita with cucumbers); KHORESH GORMEH SUBZI (which is a lamb and bean stew with an amazing kick from the whole preserved limes); to be eaten with either fresh NAN bread or ZERESKH POLO which is the typical Iranian pilaf dish garnished with the tart zereskh berries etc. For the superior grade of food available at Mahdi, I think it is remarkably competitively priced as well. To do full justice to the buffet, I need to always ensure that I have literally fasted before turning up here and that I have kept the afternoon free so that I can curl up and catch a nice afternoon nap after the heavenly meal one is always ensured one will have at Mahdi."

Pecking Order The Hive London

Pecking Order The Hive London

The Hive Camrose Avenue Harrow, Greater London HA8 6AG, HA7 1DD, Stanmore, United Kingdom

Kebab • Cafés • Asiatic • European


"Despite having only one waiter working, he did his best to attend to all customers. The personal service provided by the waiter was excellent, but the overall dining experience was lacking as his attention was divided after the football match ended. This resulted in our food becoming cold as it sat waiting to be picked up. We brought this to the waiter's attention and received an apology, but no solution was offered to warm up the food. The menu was disappointing compared to previous visits to the Stanmore Branch, where the customer service and food quality were excellent. On a previous visit to Pecking Order at the Hive, the chef had to leave early due to an emergency, so the waiter or manager ended up cooking our food, limiting our options to only fried foods instead of their signature rotisserie chicken. We ended up enjoying the chicken and waffles, but it wasn't what we had initially wanted to order. The menu only offered four items: half chicken, burger or veggie burger, fries, and rice, which was a letdown in terms of variety and portion size. To top it off, we discovered that the same chicken served at Starbucks next door was also served at Pecking Order, which was a disappointment and raised questions about the restaurant's practices. Overall, the experience was disappointing, and I would not recommend it."