Mangal 2 Restaurant Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was incredible. The meat was very tender and I could tell it was of a high quality."
• "The lamb sweetbreads with tomatoes and onions, it was, well, ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!"
• "For mains I had mackerel, was soft and perfectly charred and paired pleasantly with mango."
• "Just impeccable food. Flavours are gutsy yet delicate - from the cultured butter served with the flatbread, to the delicious sumac onions we had with the dairy cow sirloin - and everything is cooked to the perfection."
• "The grillled onions were also lovely with a surprisingly flowery flavour."
• "The food was so average, dry kebabs, the worst aubergine dish I have ever had."
• "The food came out fairly cold."

Cons:

• "Really expensive, tiny portions. incredibly average food and meh service."
• "Please avoid this place, regardless of what you see on the various 'best Turkish food in London' lists. Utterly gutted."
• "The octopus was unfortunately quite tough and chewy."
• "The food was so average, dry kebabs, the worst aubergine dish I have ever had."
• "The food came out fairly cold."
• "Food (and drink) complete rip offs and not tasty."
• "The food is tasty minus the aubergine dish that is swamped by a watery sauce."

Service

Pros:

• "Service is fantastic helpful on suggestions and accommodating in a fast placed busy restaurant."
• "Food was amazing with great service."
• "Loved the food and the staff were very friendly."
• "We had an absolutely wonderful dinner last night. The food was delicious, the service exceptional, and the wine list was very well put together, full of exciting things to taste."
• "Although the staff was very busy, they checked on us often and made sure we enjoyed the meal."
• "Our drinks were provided within impeccable time and despite the restaurant being very busy, I still felt I was served with a very personal and superb service."
• "The staff were extremely welcoming and friendly despite how busy it was."

Cons:

• "Service was slow and unattentive (albeit friendly)."
• "We waited up to 40 mins between dishes that are usually finished within 60 seconds."
• "The service was friendly but a slightly chaotic, things arriving late with big gaps between meals being delivered."
• "There is no good service and persons are so rude."
• "Really disappointing customer service!"
• "The staff are not attentive and too few in number and the choice of puddings was limited to two of which one was sold out on a weekday evening."
• "Service was awful, the waitress was young and rude and had an egotistical attitude."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The atmosphere is buzzing."
• "Will be coming back soon. Peace."
• "WOW! What an amazing experience."
• "The entire menu looked delicious."
• "The venue itself is okay; small, noisy and (on the day we visited at least) hot."
• "A fantastic atmosphere."
• "A local Dalston legend for a good reason."

Cons:

• "It's so loud in the tiny room inside that you can barely hear your neighbour talking."
• "We felt slightly rushed to leave within 2 hours understandably as it is popular."
• "The restaurant lacked of character, no much effort was put into improving the location experience."
• "It still sounds like a loud noisy ZOO inside."
• "We got sat in the basement where it was dark hot and loud."
• "The restaurant is small and you feel cramped as tables are really close to each other so you have no privacy as the next table is almost adjacent to your table."
• "The type of people who come here have no taste, just awful gentrifying people who are loud and say stupid things so their dull but loud conversation ruined the meal."

Value

Pros:

• "Amazing restaurant with good (huge) portion sizes and food that caters to all dietary requirements."
• "You may have to pay a little more for smaller plates here but everything that came to our table was top notch - so so tasty and flavourful and in the end a perfect amount of food."
• "With one starter, 2 large mains and 2 glasses of wine we ended up paying 40 quid, which is more than decent in London considering this quality."
• "The prices are good for the amounts you get."
• "Each dish was perfectly executed and left us wanting more."
• "The prices are good and portion sizes pretty generous considering the quality of the food, drinks were also very affordable."
• "For 10 pounds each - we were treated to a feast which was excellent value for money and quality."

Cons:

• "We paid £5 for a plate with 5 salad leaves on it..."
• "For Londoners or tourists who want to experience the Turkish Kitchen, this will leave you wanting and confused. Hard pass..."
• "You will easily spend over 100£, and you won’t eat much."
• "The two of us spent just over sixty quid on our meal including drinks and, to be honest two hours later I found myself ordering a kebab in my favourite local kebab house because I was still hungry."
• "Utterly disappointing ripoff at £85 per person for 2 courses with wine..."
• "The portions were tiny, the food underwhelming and prices high."
• "I felt mugged when the bill came - £18 for a main lunch dish and a coke."