Melih bbq — Restaurant in London

I visited here last night at around 9pm, had unfortunately didn't have the best experience. Things started off okay, place wasn't too busy staff seemed happy.

Once we sat down we were given complimentary bread, salad and a Lahmacun as well.

Just ordered the melih special for 2 people, £22.50. Now it was meant to come with the following. 1 adana, chicken Shish, lamb Shish, 5 chicken wings, 3 lamb ribs and 2 lamb chops. I was looking forward to the lamb, as that's my preferred meat of choice.

But when it arrived, there was no lamb ribs or chops. But 1 tiny extra wing and one chicken kofa...strange. I didn't think this was correct.

I was a bit confused and asked where are the chops? They then said they don't have any chops left. So they gave me a chicken kofta extra.. With no acknowledgement or letting me know before hand. I said I wanted lamb, but they insisted, they had no chops.

They then said they can give me more lamb ribs.. I said fine.. But then saw there were actually no ribs on the platter to start with either! Then after I complained again, they said they will give me ribs, but acted like it was extra! After 10mins some ribs were dumped on the platter. But I was like. This was meant to come anyway!

Then after another round of complaining from me.. Guess what.. Lamb chops suddenly were available again and I got some at the end of the meal. I said well I've finished now, they said you can take it home.

I just don't understand what happened here. I've eaten out close to 200 restaurants a year and never had staff lie and try to scam me.

The food was decent, but the sneaky and dishonest service left a poor taste in my month.

Chilii sauce was great, but they have a thing with serving...

Fresh and delicious food. Service is good.

We went on a Friday at 5pm and there were plenty of tables. We ordered the Melih special platter for 2 for £33. It came with a lot of meat, salad and bread. They gave us a free lahmacun which was nice and chewy. Everything was flavourful and tasty. Well seasoned meat charcoal grilled, bulgur wheat was delicious and addictive, all the meats were tasty, the lamb was a bit chewy but that's to be expected. Salad was good and the garlic sauce is thick and drinkable.

I ordered the Ayran, usually I find the shop bought ones too salty and sour. This was perfect flavour, not dour or salty and slightly sweet too. Tastes homemade. The bread nice and warm, the only downfall is the bread from the platter is stale compared to the bread they give you. Otherwise it was a good meal.

The dessert I ordered Sutlac, usually I get it from Diyarbakir kitchen where it tastes like white chocolate. This one has lemon in it and the texture is nice and smooth and creamy. It's not as nice as the one from Diyarbakir but it is still nice and worth trying once.

Overall it costed £43 for the two of us. We ordered Turkish tea also for £1.50. Worth the money for good quality food...

We placed a massive order from Melih BBQ in Chadwell Heath for a family gathering, spending several hundred pounds on their mixed grills — and it was an absolute disaster.

The moment we opened the food at home, we were hit with a disgusting smell. It was so bad that even my 13-year-old nephew said it made him feel sick — and honestly, he wasn’t wrong. Our guests were all put off, and no one could actually enjoy the meal. To make matters worse, when we tried to reheat some of it the next day, the food tasted completely off — clearly not fresh and possibly even spoiled.

To add insult to injury, after spending hundreds of pounds, we were given a single portion of £1 chips for free. That felt like a complete slap in the face. Is that really how you treat large orders from loyal customers?

This restaurant used to be good, but now it seems like they’re cutting every corner possible, with inexperienced staff running things and zero care for quality. It honestly feels like the whole place is being run by kids with no clue what they’re doing.

We are never ordering from Melih BBQ again — not even if they paid us. This experience was beyond disappointing and completely...