Sarchnar Restaurant Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Surprisingly tasted very fresh and light, they pick really nice and admirable quality meat for cooking."
• "The food is authentic, cheap, plentiful, and tasty."
• "Really good food, fair prices and a generous amount of portion."
• "The best Middle Eastern restaurant I've ever been to."
• "The best food in London with most reasonable price."
• "The food was amazing, we had so many additional sides that came free with the main meals."
• "The kebabs and sea bass were both very tasty."

Cons:

• "very bad food and not least bad service."
• "Food is average definitely nothing special."
• "Not worth their high price which is roughly £20 pp."
• "Ordered the chicken and kebab sheesh. Extremely salty, tastes overcooked."
• "The tikka meat was slightly under cooked."
• "Very dirty and bad food full of fat."
• "Food quality was very poor. The shish kebab literally was so bland and tasted like 'earth'. Literal earth."

Service

Pros:

• "Very fast and excellent service."
• "Staff are friendly and helpful."
• "Service was great and very fast."
• "The staff was amazing and kind."
• "The waiters were extremely positive, polite and welcoming and most importantly always stayed alert so the service was quick."
• "Efficient service and warm staff."
• "Really friendly service, welcoming."

Cons:

• "Very bad service and poor food quality. Staff are ignorant and incompetent."
• "Horrible treatment for the owner he wants to you to leave immediately after dining."
• "The staff were annoyed and arguing with each other - no system."
• "The only disadvantage is that when we visited here, they don't have enough waiter/waitress so you have to wait for a while and staffs looks pretty tired and exhausted."
• "Spoke to the boss about his behaviour, he arrogantly said he had many other restaurants, and didn't care."
• "This is the worse experience you can get in this area, waiters are VERY RUDE, they don’t respect their customers."
• "After waiting a long time to set and have dinner. We still wasn’t finished, the lady came and try to pick up the food and asked to bring us tea. She was really really rude."

Value

Pros:

• "The fact that the starters; hummus, Cacik, fresh salad, lentil soup, pickles and freshly baked naan from the tandoor are FREE of charge is also a plus."
• "The restaurant offers free start up mazza and tea."
• "You get free food like a top of their bread whenever you want and free tea and baklava."
• "One of the few restaurants that give you free soup, salads and bread!"
• "The portion of our mains were generous, and the prices are reasonable, especially given the portions and quality of food."
• "The price is excellent compared to the rest."
• "Great value for money."

Cons:

• "Despite the food can be classified as good enough, the restaurant is not reasonably priced."
• "Food is average definitely nothing special, waitresses were polite and friendly but the overall price was a bit much especially for a salad which was literally thrown together and called a “shepherds salad” even with that charged for everything including the bread."
• "Very expensive and NOT worth it at all."
• "Their mixed grill is overpriced."
• "The prices are changed everytime when you order for take away(+++),never its the same."
• "We had to order an extra biryani rice for 5,99£."
• "Food was reheated and I have never been somewhere like this before."

Payment Methods

Pros:

• "No pros mentioned."

Cons:

• "They only accept cash."
• "They do not take card payments, everything must be payed in CASH."
• "Note important payment only cash."
• "Also, they only accept cash for payment."
• "cash only, cannot pay by card. Honest scams."
• "You need to have cash with yourself because they only accept cash not cards."
• "Very important to know, unlike most they only accept cash, no CCs."

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "The seating arrangement was also good and the interior was comfortable and spotlessly clean, making it a lovely environment to experience with both family and friends!"
• "Not very plush in terms of interior however it’s very clean."
• "Hygiene could improve but no where is 100%."

Cons:

• "The toilets were also very dirty. Never going here again."
• "Cleanliness - hygiene =3/10."
• "Atmosphere was lively/noisy and cleanliness could be improved."
• "The bathrooms are a hit and miss, don't use the dryer, it'll spill on your feet."
• "Food is not great however found a fly on the Bread."
• "Nothing malicious against them, the workers were okay but the taste of food was average and the presentation very poor."
• "Ok it's not as clean as it looks in the photo but a busy street-restaurant with good food and reasonably priced."