Mangé des Îles — Restaurant in London

My friends and I discovered a little tropic gem in Tooting Market called Mange des île.

We discovered the restaurant has amazing and authentic Mauritian food.

The Manager Ravi is clearly passionate and dedicated to providing a wonderful service to all his customers. His love for his country and the Mauritian cultural heritage is very inspiring.

My Mauritian friend's love to boast that Ravi's Dahl pouris are like Dahl pouri Deva in Mauritius which is the most renowned and famous dahl pouris in Mauritius. The best way for me to describe dahl pouri is that it is similar to a soft delectable roti (flat bread) stuffed with dhal. Inside the dahl pouri they will add roguy-a homemade tomato base sauce, some butter beans curry and homemade chilli sauce. It is very tasty indeed.

Ravi and his colleagues also make catles-a delicious Mauritian deep fried kebab with a wonderful blend of spices and egg coating. It's so satisfying. So, ladies and gentlemen, I must give you advance notice - it is impossible to just stop at one.

His fish curry, lamb curry, chicken briyani and chicken liver dishes are fantastic. It is the way my Mauritian friends mothers cook when they are in the UK. Each morsel is a burst of tropical flavours.

The restaurant also provide a variety of tasty Mauritian street foods like gateaux du pain - a savoury bread snack, gateaux piment - it is almost like a yellow split pea version of a mini falafel, gateaux brinjel - an aubergine pakora, gateaux pomme de terre - a potato pakora and other very moreish snacks. He gave us the option of having it with some homemade tomato sauce and homemade chilli sauce. Needless to they were all mouth-watering.

His desserts were simply scrumptious. I loved the tarte banane with a yummy buttery pastry with a homemade banana jam, the napolitan which consists of 2 short bread biscuits sandwiched with jam and topped with pink icing. Ravi served us sutalfine from Mauritius which is a mouth-watering Indian-Mauritian sweet- it's almost like a soft vermicelli nest dipped in a sugar syrup and many other luscious desserts for those of us with a sweet tooth. The ones I have mentioned are my favourite grab and go sweet treats.

Mange de île also makes Vindaye poisson - pickled fish and Vindaye Orite - pickled octopus. They are both flavourful dishes with its origins from Keralan style dry fish pickle in India. Some say there are origins from Portugal involved. Vindaye - fried fish or fried octopus are preserved in a tempered oil with a flavourful blend of onions, garlic, chilli mustard seeds and turmeric with a dash of vinegar which cuts through the spicy oil. It's served with bread. And again, very moreish. I believe there was a the vegetable option too for vegans /vegetarians.

They a have a variety of vegetarian tali dishes available with rice which I am looking forward to trying on my next visit.

They also had some Mauritian Chinese dishes available too. Again, I am very excited about my next visit to the restaurant.

They made many reasonable adjustments for my friends family with dementia who was on a wheelchair. They were kind and compassionate with elderly customers who struggled with mobility from the start of service to the end. They were fantastic with my friends children too.

So, thank you to Ravi and his team for the warm tropical welcome, delicious food and...

Spotted this Mauritius restaurant on my Tooting visit as I left so made a trip back to try it. The food on offer was interesting because they had soup noodles as well as dim sum which is also in soup so tried them both. Both turned out very Chinese in style so that's I wonder if there is Chinese influence in Mauritius. The dim sum soup was interesting as it was literally fish balls and shao mai in soup, however if you google the boulette chouchou dim sum soup it should have chayote vegetable. When, dim sum soup came, there was no shao mai as shown so I was told they were sold out but they managed to get me some. Also I ordered the soup noodles with prawn, lamb and egg but there were not prawns which was probably a blessing in disguise because it was just those chilled peel prawns from the supermarket. I wasn't sure how you were meant to eat the noodles as no cutlery was given so asked for some. Other, than that, the noodles were quite nice but I think I would have liked thinner egg noodles. Anyway, I will definitely be back to try more Mauritian dishes to get a...

The food here is great! It's typical Mauritian food. I've been here a few times and loved it so much that I even ended up doing a catering order for my birthday party. People who had never tried Mauritian food at my party asked for leftovers. Everyone left with a takeaway box or two! The dhall puris are my favourite. Highly recommend the butterbean curry (and chilli if you are brave)! The bhajis are best when they are freshly fried. My favorite are the cabbage bhajis. I've had the chicken and lamb briyani. They are definitely along the Mauritian side which we serve dry with chutneys and salad (I.e. no vegetable curry). The fried noodles are also rally good and must be tried with the garlic sauce. The alouda is also worth a try especially if you are having any food with the chilli sauce. The vanilla flavoured milk is not only tasty but helps you cool down. All in all, great Mauritian restaurant which reminds me of Mauritius. Ravi is always an amazing host. When we did the catering order, he did a follow up call to make sure everything was fine and in...