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This place serves one of the best shawarma in the city. The restaurant is open till late which is also an additional good point.The food is not greasy…
Mohammed Akhtar
Cafe Helen
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A great place to go to late into the night , say after nine. Good place ,despite the long queues. The menu is simple, nothing lavish and most people h…
Thomas Watkins
Cafe Helen
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This place is much of a disappointment and i cannot comprehend the other ratings for this place. To begin with, the service is displeasing, to be fair…
Seth Butcher
Cafe Helen
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9 Reviews on “Cafe Helen”
This place is much of a disappointment and i cannot comprehend the other ratings for this place. To begin with, the service is displeasing, to be fair NON EXISTENT actually, they serve according to their own terms, are inattentive to the needs of customer. The shawarmas were below average. Would not recommend!
The quality of shawarma on offer is excellent. I recently went there and tried one. It was quite tasty. The meat was fresh and tender just the way I like. The garlic sauce served along with it complimented the meal pretty well. The reason I have not rated this very highly is that they charged quite a lot for the beverage which was not even cold.
I recently tried this place and was quite impressed with it. The food was excellent, especially the shawarmas and kebabs which were cooked to perfection. Though the quantity is just fine but they are quite hygienic and healthy. The staff is quite warm and friendly. The ambience is also quite decent. thus, I would love to visit this place again.
I am very disappointed by this place, and it is one of the reasons I have dreaded coming to kebab joints. At the outset, it looks very generic, but I noticed that the meat had been sitting out for a very long time. The service was very speedy, but the kebabs were very small and wrapped like a sausage. The meat tasted very cheap, and the dish was very greasy. It was overpriced and mediocre. I am not coming back ever again.
I have visited this place a number of times and has never been disappointed. You will always find a queue there but trust me people, the food is worth the wait. I usually order shawarma wrap. It is quite filling and reasonably priced though I would recommend you to avoid their kebabs. It is quite a good place for a late night dinner.
Well Worth the Wait. I am a frequent traveller to London for over 25 years, always with the intention of catching the best places to eat at. I have eaten many many kebabs in many many kebab joints. But very very few offer kebabs better than the ones sold at Edgware Road’s Caf Helen. Their lamb kebabs are the best around, flavourful, somewhat greasy (as great kebabs should be), dripping with juices and sauce, and deliciously fulfilling! Their portions are generous although they are a bit pricier than normal kebab joints. All in all, there’s a reason why the line is long and the price is on the high side. And thathat’s because they know their kebabs are the best around! It’s a must go joint. And their kebabs are a must eat!
Queue and activity says it all. This is Edgware Road. There are numerous kebab and halal joints in competition, all offering the same old shawarma or doner or shish and falafels. But there is a proper hole-in-the-wall that, despite the high number of kebab shops around it, is always bustling with business. And that is Cafe Helen. I watched it as it was frequented by many locals of the kebab-expert persuasion. I watched the huge drum of meat spin. It glistened with oil and with the expert speed the kebab-man wrapped and tossed it to the next kebab-man I knew this was a place with high turnover.The kebab was very intensely flavoured (not just salty and greasy, lacking in discernible meat flavour – a spam-like mark of most doner joints) of meat and garlic. Very greasy, with drippings embracing the salad and somewhat overwhelming it save for a few vinegary notes. The meat is of fine quality and of choice cuts – definitely had a good butcher there.It was quite pricey ( 4.50) for a small-ish lamb shawarma but it was definitely a memorably authentic doner. I’d hit it again!