Gimme your best restaurants. Preferably not too pricey if it goes over 8pounds per head I start weeping.
The only really good halal restaurant I’ve found so far in London is Mea Mea an egyptian bakery on edgware road. Other than that Halal places here have been really really below par.
Los Angeles had much better and more varied halal fare.
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hah. LA halal variety and quality cant reach London variety and quality by any means. Maddie may just go ballistic on you if he reads this.
I being a non halal thru and thru know good restaurants in London in diff price ranges but err dont specialize in halal joints :)
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Pir Sahab, rest assured that on Friday I’m going back to my old university for jummah as part of my 3 day UK stopover. Whilst I am there, I am going to hunt down ravage and tear him a new one for this mortal affront to the UK halal scene.
Maddy’s Tips for UK quality halal food
Avoid Khan’s of Bayswater like the plague; but travel further down the road for a halal Nandos.
Go to the East End. Find the smallest dirtiest pakistani restaurant you can find and enjoy. There’s a lovely little joint on Commercial Street called Lahore Kebab House, I believe.
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Plenty of Halal places in London. On Edgeware Road there is only one Pakistani eating place and that isn't that good. Other restuarants on this road are either Iranian or Arab and they seem to be expensive.
Go to East London and try places on Green Street. The underground station is Upton Park on the District Line.
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Come to Manchester-Wilmslow Rd! it will kick the a$$ of LA, NYC, Chicago, Dallas...or any other american place with an asian population!
London-shmundon...its all about Manchester these days kiddo
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bhaiyon, im a foodie. i've gone to east street, gone to various places on edgware road etc, gone to Pakistani places both swanky and otherwise.
At best the Pakistani places have been passable. Typically they're beykar so far :p. The food seems geared to be palatable to the angraiz folks.
Lekin pakistani/arabic food choro. Tell me some good halal italian places. Aur mai manchester lunch khanay to janay sai raha
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oh come on, no good halal italian places in London?
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used to be a hole in the wall Italeria .. atleast was around until last spring. look it up.
u can also try Signor Marco
I can send you to some good places but your 8 pound is not going to get you in there :)
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^ Fraudz lemme know some good restaurants around the London area please (I'll spend more than 8 pounds :))
I love going to new restaurants!
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Try Ping Pong. Its halal dim sum and its great.
There are a few branches across central london.
Blue elephant for thai is lovely (fulham) too.
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haha zabiha or not? I am more in tune with general joints than zabiha ones only. I can get my bro to post he is the man about town
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You can buy a whole tandhoori chicken for 3.5 pounds! Try streatham in london, Alhamdulilah there are many halal shops around but i am more familiar with streatham/norbury (in particular tandoor and laziz situated on london road)...
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hiya..there are so many halal shops in london almost in any area of london...come to east london area and u can go green street and one tai halal resturant at barking road..u can try many resturant in ilford lane and high road and u can try nendo,s in ilford there are few chinees halal in ilford one on the cranbrook road ilford(china grill) and other one near to ciineworld ilford..u can try ambala resturant on ilford lane dahi bhala is really good and nagina resturant good..i like dixy on ilford lane...there are so many resturant in east london area and almost every shop is halal here
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check out " Zabihah.com " listings , have tried it several times anywhere i go in U.S or Canada , should work for u as well
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Either; or please 
Am happy to eat the vegetarian/seafood selection at non zabiha places…
Hey shazniz - ping pong is a hangout of mine! Was there every weekend at one point - I love Dim-Sum! Have been to Blue Elephant in Fulham a few times now and although the ambience is fabulous, I’m not overly impressed with the food…
If you like Dim - Sum try Yauatcha in Soho - really lovely and Michelin star awarded
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Hey ainoo thanks for the suggestions, was in Ilford this weekend and went to a Lebanese place called Tamkar or something (sorry can’t remember the name!) it was close to the station. Their mocktails were great and so were the desserts. The mains weren’t fab though…my friend and sis simply couldn’t finish their food…
But I will definitely try out some of the ones you’ve mentioned if I’m ever in the area again
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I thought you lived in america phoenix51? :)
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^ No CW I live in SouthEast UK...not far from London :)