Mahdi Restaurant

This place rocks. It has a really nice atmosphere and the food in my opinion is great for what you actually pay. I have been several times with my family, and each time the 2 course meal with drinks come in at around £10 a head. The bread is cooked right in front of you, wonderful.

If I was spending more that £20 a head, I could understand the negative responses, however the food is well priced, well cooked, and plentiful. It may not be the 100% Iranian food, but it is very close.

I would always recommend this to anyone that eats kebabs from the “Vans” or “Take Away” places. It will open your eyes to what a real kebab is like, especially that a shish kebab now a days is costing around the £6.50 mark anyhow!
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R Higman
Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Friday, August 29, 2008

When I read the negative comments about Mehdi, I honestly think you guys are talking about another place. My fiance' and I go to Mehdi nearly every week. We've been going there for a year now.

The service is great. The food is absolutely delicious (jojeh kebab, rice etc). hat I love the most in Mehdi is the naan (bread). It's made fresh in the tandoor. Every time we go there we take 4/5 naans for take away and eat it on the way.

I'd definitely recommend mehdi to couples, singles, families and everyone. Whilst at it, i must point out that we've never had bad service from them. But i have seen many customers talking to the waiters like they're a nobody. If you show respect, you'll get respect and they'll serve you properly.
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A Noori
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

The place was recommended by a friend, that is good food and great value for money. Although it was our first experience in a persian/iranian restaurant, but everything was beyond our expectation come along by a superb service.

The dishes were not just delicious, but enough for a next day meal too.

We definietly come back with friends in the near future.
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Attila
Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Sunday, May 18, 2008

I've been to this place, cause it is convenient and close to me. In my opinion, the food is good. The staff and the management are polite and friendly. Having said that these guys do not have a clue about service. The service is appalling. These guys bring every dish separatley with tehir tumbs in your sauce, instead of using a tray. The soft drinks are served without ice or sometimes a glass. Non of the waiters work in this place, they just pass things to each other. God knows how many useless managers this place have got.When you ask for a bill, the bill is passed between three waiters, your credit card all around the shop, until they find out where/whom they got the credit card from, shocking. Nobody has got a good command of English language in this place.

I stress again, the food is good, and despite the staff being offside, they are polite.

It is an EATERI, not a restaurant.
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Ben
Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 3
Thursday, April 24, 2008

I have two complaints about this place. i went there with my family and couple of guests of ours. we were told it's not one of the best Iranian restaurants in London but it's good value for money and food is ok. well I can honstly say the food is not ok and in my opinion it's amongst the worst. If you are used to proper Home made Iranian cooking then don't even go there. The Kubideh looks and felt Slimmy. I don't know what they had put in there but it felt more like a Jelly than kebab. then my Dad ordered Baghali pollow and we all agreed that the Baghali must have been cooked in the microwave or something... it was awful. then there was their Lubia pollow which My sister ordered. It had massive piece of whole meat (the one they used for their Baghali pollow) instead of the diced meat Lubia pollow should have. the only thing we could all eat there was the bread. we asked the waiter to pack everything as takeaway as none of us ate our food. and then we chucked everything in the away. It's true what they say it's value for money but not if you want to enjoy your food. My other complaint. I went to a function and they said They have ordered theur food from Mehdi - No I didn't eat the food, but then again not many otheres did either cos they were so late delivering it.
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Farid
Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 3
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Mehdi is a great Iranian (Persian) restaurant and my family and I go there at least once a week as it is local to were we work. There service is good, food absolutely delicious and the Noon man is an absolute pleasure (especially for our daughter). The only things that I can recommend to them is that they give you extra plates/forks/glasses/serviettes if there is more than two people seated (when you sit down this should be done) and that they pay attention to the cleanliness of their utensils and tables. I have spoken to them about this and they welcome the critic and have since improved greatly. The atmosphere, size of portions and food is what keeps us coming back every week. I have not been to another Iranian restaurant since discovering this little gem! Thank you!
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Tia Sorensen
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Food 9 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Monday, January 21, 2008

Went to Mahdi twice first time i wasn't happy with the service as the starters took 20 minutes to come then our kebab took 40 minutes to come...and on top of that they said to us that there is no more rice left...so instead we had to have the kebab with bread...they did not apologize at all.

since then my family and friends have stopped going there
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B
Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 4
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

This wonderful place is a regular fixture in my diary, for simple cuisine in a friendly clean restaurant this place is hard to beat. The food is good and the portions are always generous. The menu is quite limited but what they do serve is always excellently prepared. Staff are friendly and the restaurant itself always busy which is the sign of a good place. Just like many regulars we made the mistake on our first trip of ordering a main dish each after having had bread and several starters, we simply couldn't finish it all. Unless you haven't eaten all week its easily possible to be satisfied with a selection of starters and one main course between two people. Its easy to have a good meal and come away stuffed for just over £20 all in. This place also has bread freshly on the premises, a lovely little man bakes authentic bread to order by the front door, Its like having your meal in a bakery.

Yes they could do with air con but its not a major problem. The recycling food claim is rubbish, how long would your reputation last if that was true, this place is busy 7 days a week. No alcohol can be a problem but if you simply can't eat food without it perhaps you should be asking yourself some questions!
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andy B
Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Such a lovely place to have your dinner , i regularly go to mahdi restaurant with people from different counties and all of them loved it , i recommend it to every one , the service has problem some times but in overall i dont mind it as the food is so nice and the average charge per person is about 15 pounds,
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kasra
Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 5
Thursday, October 04, 2007

This review goes to all the people who are thinking of visiting this restaurant and it goes specially to Samad..

the whole point of these reviews are for you to give your honest opinion and a guide for peole who want to go there,,the reason i went to this restaurant three times was because of all these good reviews i read online so the first time it turned out bad i thought maybe it was me,so i thought of giving them another try however when i heard their left over foods policy i found myself responsible to make everyone else aware of this.

I only suggested there are nicer persian restaurants around and i wasn't advertising any in particular... i'm actually suspecious of your identity and some of these exagerated reviews.

Abbas London
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Abbas
Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 4
Monday, October 01, 2007