Kebab Ziyafet LTD — Restaurant in London

A corner shop on Eltham High Road split over two floors. The access to the upper floor is by stairs only.

Attended with family and friends today. Six of us all told. No reservation. But tables were moved around and we were accommodated.

The menu is pretty standard Turkish Cypriot stuff on the kebab side, plus a seafood selection including lobster. Something I will try the next time I attend.

This time round it was prawn cocktail starters for three of our party then a selection of lamb kebabs for main courses.

The food was cooked very nicely. I ordered the prawn cocktail as a starter, which was somewhat spicey so I took I point off the five stars I might have given if it were a normal less spicey prawn cocktail and the latter dish was perfect.. Before that arrived however we were given some hot sliced pitta breads and olives. The pitta breads' were shop bought but fresh.

For my main course I ordered the mixed Kebab. Only order this if you have an appetite. I started off well but soon ran out of steam. The mixed consisted of lamb shish, chicken shish, lamb doner and chicken doner kebabs, plus salad and a choice of couscous, rice or chips.

As I said, a large helping and for under £16. It was nicely cooked. I chose chops on the side which were slim cut and crispy on the outside. The shish kebabs were nicely cooked and moist on the inside. The doner kebabs were Okay but in need of some seasoning, so again, 4 stars contributing.

On the whole however everyone in our party enjoyed their dinner.

Service was attentive, polite and friendly.

This shop has competition from Rixos, just down the road, but I must admit, I think Ziyafet is the better for food. Rixos wins on...

The first experience was ok: I have to say that I love grilled lamb, so probably I overestimated the place. Second experience: I went with 7 friends and because I had booked the place or I was paying last and they were about £7 short, they expected me to pay the rest of the money. The member of staff and the manager were very accusative towards us for not having paid the full amount and wanted me and my friends to pay it. The had presented us a non detailed bill, a hand written bill with Food Sweet Drink Service charge

Because they didn't take any responsibility we recalculated our amounts and challenged them to create a proper detailed bill (obviously it wasn't for the £7, it was now a matter of principle. You don't have a good billing system and that's how you treat your customers!?! Wow 😳) but as they were doing so, they decided not to charge us anymore. Obviously we were not happy with their treatment. They could have at least apologised for the embarrassment caused and for the accusations. At least if they would have been open to look into it, we would have been able to prove that we paid the right amount of money. A lovely evening with friends with an horrifying treatment by the...

The atmosphere of the place is relaxing and nicely decorated. The service is OK nothing to shout about but the quality of food is shameful and I am not alone in my opinion as accompanied with partner. You would imagine the ideal BBQ plate would be a 12oz steak – how can this go so dreadfully wrong it is not brain surgery but they managed to get it wrong in style. Medium Rare – turns out to be a steak so dry and devoid of flavour that your dog would refuse it. Not only that but it was not evenly cooked and how can you get well done – medium and rare and only glazed with a flame on one 12oz steak but they achieved it. Partner ordered well done and had it ranging from medium rare to well done. As for the salad consisting of cabbage a few slices of onion and a chopped lettuce leaf that again tasted not so fresh but had been refrigerated for quite a time oh and a chopped tomato - Not a good experience and cardboard food. Now you would think they might put a little compliments on the table even mayonnaise of mustard but no they don’t as this is serving cheap / poorest quality meat / steaks so no surprise that everything on the plate was of the same poor quality – Avoid the place like...