Layalina Billericay — Restaurant in Basildon

What a fantastic local restaurant, that brings the quality and atmosphere of a top London restaurant to Billericay. This was my (I originally did this review after 3rd visit .. it's probably more like 63 now!) visit and we'd pre-booked (essential for this dish) the Lebanese lamb [photo]... the chef brought it out with justified pride and it was absolutely superb... the 4 of us loved it. the accompanying Lebanese wine was also delicious. The staff are consistently friendly, efficient and professional... this is a well-run excellent restaurant. recommended. Have returned since last review with my Mum, my partner and son for another meal and it was as good as ever... superb... the staff clearly all get on and are well looked after; so it's a wonderful atmosphere... unlike some other local restaurants which can be a little ..'stuffy'!😳 still highly recommended!! still superb... with amazing cocktails served up by resident cocktail bar supremo Charlotte Update: visited again 15/10/24... still fabulous food, drink and exemplary service! Dec '24.....

What an incredible meal! Service was excellent, I don't think my wine glass or water glass was empty once, very attentive team. They made sure our table were very well looked after throughout our meal and our dishes were all incredible, very well presented and wonderfully delicious! We had brought a cake for a birthday which they let us cut and eat too! My favourite part of the evening was being presented with a special tea box when ordering hot drinks! I work in a loose leaf tea shop and the standard offering of teas in places can be a bit of a disappointment so it was very refreshing to have such a lovely selection of loose leaf to choose from and more importantly it was delicious and brewed well. It was a very nice touch!

Highly recommend this place if looking for somewhere to enjoy some tasty food, incredible service and lovely atmosphere, what a wonderful little gem Billericay has here!

Thank you everyone at Layalina for a really...

The batata harra, calamari, chicken wings, the shawarma spice ect...were all absolutely delicious, presentation was great as always but It looks when the boss away the staff can be super rude and the quality if food can go down dramatically. Inedible tabbouleh(full of water), fattoush missing salt and lemon, big chunks of aubergine in moutabbale. When we said the moutabbale is not up to standard, they took the place never replaced it or replaced the tabbouleh! When you go to a fine dining restaurant, you expect value for money. Apparently, you are not welcome in there if you visit with your kids, the way the waiter behaved was unacceptable when my toddler had his Ipad volume a bit high, no high chairs for kids, no ketchup too. I would have left two stars as feedback but I have been there before and it was all amazing. Lets hope Eric absence does not affect the restaurant that bad...