Chez Marcelle

Really great Mediterranean food, delightful service, great prices and surprisingly good Lebanese wine (apologies to all true Lebanese wine lovers who know how great their wines are). The restaurant is popular with the local French community who know great food when they taste it.

Madame Marcelle combines great Lebanese classics with French style. You can even persuade her to cook a fantastic dinner party for you and go around and collect it just before your guests arrive.

It's got to be a much better choice for a romantic dinner date - or if you are visiting Olympia with the family you can enjoy a fantastic meal without emptying your wallet at Pizza Express for....... a pizza.

Enjoy a really great meal :-) John
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John Corr
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Chez Marcelly is the kind of restaurant everyone wants to know about. A local, inexpensive, unpretentious place with exceptional food. The dining room itself is plain - not a piece of linen or a candlestick in sight. The service is 'leisurely' as the proprietor is both waitress and chef - so more often minding the stoves than the customers. Still, you absolutely won't feel neglected as Marcelle is a warm and welcoming host - and her cooking is inspired. The menu itself features an unadventuous range of Lebanese specialties - very simple and striaghtforward. Yet the quality of each dish is a testament to Marcelle's superb skills. Her use of fresh ingredients and meticulous attention to detail in preparation are evident in every bite. And this has been consistently the case on every visit over many years to this wonderful restaurant. As you can see from every other comment on this website - Chez Marcelle is well worth a visit.
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Johnny
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Food 10 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 10
Friday, October 05, 2007

We live nearby and whenever we don't feel like cooking or want to have a nice unpretentious dinner we drop by. Marcelle is very friendly and helpful and the food is simply delicious. It's really not a fancy place - although it was recently redecorated - but it's so relaxed and the food so good I guarantee you can even a romantic dinner there!
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Simon
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 10
Thursday, May 24, 2007

This is, without doubt, some of the best Lebanese food you can find in London. We go there all the time and the food is always completely delicious, freshly made by Marcelle herself who is a brilliant cook. Everything is homemade by her and cannot be faulted. You do have to wait sometimes whilst she cooks everything herself but it is well worth it. Delicious reasonable Lebanese wines and the food is very good value. Her tabbouleh is the best and also the moutabal is completely delicious.
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shona - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 10
Friday, March 02, 2007

This is a great neighbourhood restaurant. The food is good quality, well prepared and filling - superb value for money. The proprietor does all the cooking, but still finds time to be friendly and charming. Service is competent and at best very endearing. One thing to note is that credit and debit cards are not accepted, so take some cash. For £20 a head you can eat very, very well and also have a decent bottle of Lebanese wine.
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Lucy Penhaligon
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Friday, November 24, 2006

Marcelle is on a mission to make sure you dont leave without being totally full !The food is superb and value outstanding . We had the set meal at £16.00 per head and it was fantastic. We just could not eat it all and were sent home with several boxes including the sweet which was just a step too far . Total bill £96 for 5 people including some drinks .
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John Merrix
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 10
Thursday, October 19, 2006

This is an amazing little hideaway in West Kensington, absolutely wonderful, love it and go back there constantly. I am always recommending poeple to go there, and they always tell me how wonderful it is SO much better than nouvelle cuisine where you leave the restaurant starving afterwards!
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ZD
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Sunday, May 14, 2006

I came to this restaurant with my parents and brother this Mothers day, and had one of the best meals for a very long time. The salads were extremely fresh, homous a real pleasure, and the mixed grill superb - the chicken was particularly tender and charred perfectly. This was the first time I had been to Chez Marcelle, and it won't be my last. My Egyptian step-father has been going for years and I hope to be doing the same as it's quite hard to find an eatery of such homespun quality.
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James
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Monday, March 27, 2006

Chez Marcelle was mentioned in the same sentence as Le Gavroche by Guardian food writer Matthew Fort - and with good reason.The food is deceptively simple, traditional Lebanese cuisine. Freshly made by Marcelle Daou, every dish is perfectly prepared and with robust, well defined, flavours and textures. I have been going since it looked like a burger bar (it's now a very attractive Mediterranean styled room) ten years ago and I've never had a duff dish.
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Friday, August 05, 2005