Kish

Whatever this is its amazing. The restaurant is very nice and the staff is very friendly as well. Prices were not bad, and the location of the place is amazing too.

Nice staff. Great food. We had a huge kebab platter to share; was more than enough food for the four of us. We also got a couple tasty apps and some of the tandoori bread (love it; made fresh in the front of the restaurant). We also got a pitcher of Ayran (yummy sour/​salty yogurt drink). Tip: if you want wine, you may want to bring your own bottle; they have a very small selection but other folks had brought their own. This place is family/​kid friendly (including late at night).

Nice Persian restaurant. bit oily though. Try the breads and kebabs. Open till late which is a good thing and different from the standstill Lebanese fare. Run by a friendly Iranian family

Always a must visit when staying at the Marriott Maida Vale directly across the street. Never go wrong with the tabbouleh and boneless chicken skewer. Great marinade gives the white chicken breast meat great flavor. Comes with small salad and fluffy rice and grilled tomato on the plate. Cook their nan in the oven right in the front window. I like my nan fluffy and moist and chewy. Here it is a little too dry/​crispy at times.
Always very crowded so go early or expect a wait.

Stayed at the maida vale marriott and across the street so kish it was. Great Persian food. Good portions and excellen t service.

Tried to eat here. Was waved to a table for two. One of the chairs was right next to a massive plant making it impossible to sit down. We left. Seems like they were too busy to care.

Staying down the road from this restaurant we decided to give it a try as I really love Persian food and it’s not easy to find where I live in Florida.
We were a goup of 6 on a Tuesday night at 8 and the place was quite full. This was a good sign.
The menu is diverse with very good prices too. We chose an assortment of starters to share followed by 5 mains and then about 4 desserts. There is no liquor license so we hada tasty yogurt drink to accompany the food. Everything was very tasty and it was fun to try so many different things. All the meats were cooked very well with the chicken being very tender and lamb falling off the bone.
The special Persian sorbet was a perfect ending to an excellent meal. Service couldn’t have been better.
A definite place to know in this neighborhood.

Our first meal in London. Flavorful & delectable lamb & chicken skewers. The special Persian pilaf is as colorful as it is tasty.

According to one of the local London newspapers recently, ‘Kish’ in Kilburn was voted second-​best takeaway restaurant in the whole of the UK. And after just one meal, I can see why!!!
Let’s cut to the chase here.
The food is Persian, and is formatted into hot and cold starters, main courses, a separate special-​mains, and some bits and bobs on the side, like bread, dessert and drinks etc.
For the mains, the meats to choose from are as follows: Lamb, chicken, and fish.
I’ve tried both the lamb and the chicken so far. With each main dish, you receive a huge tin tray, about 1sq foot in surface area, loaded with heaps of dry Pilau-​styled rice, which is tainted with a golden-​yellowy tinge that is of Saffron origin I believe. Buried beneath this pile, or squashed to one side, is a mamouth serving of the chosen meat (bearing in mind that these trays are supposedly meant to be one portion, i.e. for one person). For my chicken dish, I had chosen the ‘Baby-​chicken’, which looked to me like at least two whole Baby-​chickens, jointed, and splayed out all around the sides of the tray. I say ‘two’ Baby-​chickens, because I don’t think it was an eight-​legged chicken. The chicken is also tinged with a golden colour, similar to how Tandoori Chicken is served in Indian restaurants, but it is not spicy; it’s a much softer flavour, more smokey than spicy, allowing for the true taste of the chicken to glaze the mouth. It was very tasty indeed, if a bit fiddly due to it’s miniature-​sized proportions (they do a boneless version of this too). There are hints of lemon and some kind of piquant flavouring to the chicken, but it is not spicy-​hot.
For the lamb, I tried the ‘Baby-​lamb-​fillet’ and the ‘Minced-​lamb-​skewers’ which is essentially a Kofte style kebab. With the baby-​lamb-​fillet, the meat is cut quite thin, and is extremely lean and dry. There is still good flavour there, but the leaness and dryness of the meat, makes it more suitable for someone who is perhaps on the more self-​concious side of things when monitoring their fat intake from cooked meats. Still nice, but a touch too thin and dry for my liking. It’s not dry to the extent whereby you can’t chew it easily, like beef jerky or something, but due to the way it’s cut, the grilling obviously renders it far dryer than it would be if it was thick-​cut. Still nice though, definitely one to try out. (They do combo-​dishes so you can try it out with something else at the same time.)
The lamb Kofte on the other hand, is the exact opposite, being saturated with a controlled rubbery juiciness, that just explodes in your mouth upon impact, and gets you chewing on it like there’s just no tomorrow, so-​much-​so that by the end of the meal, your jaw muscles end up looking like those of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Packed with flavour, it is safe to say that this meaty blend is most definitely concocted in their own kitchen on a daily basis, I’m pretty sure of it. Being no stranger to home-​made Kofte and the likes, I was quick to note that ‘egg’ had obviously been used in the meat-​mixture. It’s not the taste of the egg that gives it away, but the chewiness that it provides the texture with, that does. That’s the secret; that’s what the egg is put in there for. There are also herbs and spices embedded somewhere in there too; and the end result is a happiness-​inducing feast of sumptuous savouryness that really hits the spot. Fantastic Kofte. Be careful though, because when lifting the lid on this particular dish, you will have the fright of your life, as the Koftes look like two giant centipedes who have just spent a little too much time in the sun.
Also included in this tray of wholesomness, usually buried beneath the heaped pile of Pilau, is a whopping-​great-​big grilled tomato. As we all know, a lot of take-​away restaurants of all ethnicities, tend to garnish their dishes with ornate, defunct salads etc, which are supposedly edible but are more for decoration than for anything else. Make no mistake, this Kish tomato is not for decorative purposes; it’s most certainly included for consumption purposes. Being more of a meat person myself, I never thought I would actually see the day when I would admit that a tomato would be the highlight of my meal, until I met Kish that is. It’s a fairly big tomato, about the size of a snookerball, and wholly grilled, with the char-​lines on show, criss-​crossing the skin here and there. The taste of this tomato is just out-​of-​this-​world. It must be organic or something, specially sourced from some select producer. It’s got like a fruit-​juice sweetness to it? Perhaps the grilling does this to it? I’ve fried tomatoes myself in the frying-​pan, but the taste is different. So I don’t really know how this wonderful flavour comes about, but it’s just divine; and automatically elevates what is already a healthy meal to start off with, to an even healthier ‘vegi-​included’ status. And the pleasure doesn’t stop there either; as you will note from the

Kish is another local place I ignored for too long. I was there about a week ago and wanted just a little snack. The herbs omelette kind of starter I had was not really my thing, but the bread I had with it was very delicious. And I was overwhelmed by my main course. Lot’s of juicy and tasty chicken with even more of delicious rice. So if you’re after a not expensive but very good chicken dish in the area, take a look at Kish! Unfortunately, the coffee was underwhelming, but I don’t mind that much, after the main was so good. I simply won’t get a coffee the next time I go there.