Cafe Helen

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@cafehelen

📍 Edgware Road

WHAT BADMAN GOT 👇🏾

Mixed Shwarma Wrap

HALAL ✅

💰£7

VENUE

They have like 3 shops next to eachother. one which you can do sit inside have shisha too. And the others are quick pit stop branches as it get quite busy here. Your usual kebab shop settings nothing special.

MIXED SHWARMA WRAP

This was really good the sauces were nice abit on the garlic side but tasty. The meat let’s start with the lamb full of flavour nicely cooked they use a certain part of the lamb as it has a distinctive taste. The chicken had great flavour to it too. And it was cooked till it was soft. The bread it came wrapped in 10/10 crunchy and soft.

OVERALL

I enjoyed my visit here and the staff are friendly too good for quick pitstop I guess will badman go again? Yes.

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After walking down Edgware Road for 10 minutes, stumbled upon this place for tea and baklava. Can’t comment on the baklava as I didn’t have any but my company thought it to be very nice treat to the end of the evening.
The mint tea was a mixture of black tea and mint, which should have been announced nevertheless it was still nice. Sat outside of the store front
Toilet was atrocious, just a pre warning.

Lentil soup and chicken shwarma is really especial there.
Good customer services.
Bit congested but over all good.

Standard Arab grilled food. Lots of seating inside but it is a bit cramped. The price for eating in is lot higher. To eat out there is a smaller takeaway point next door. Staff friendly and hospitable.

Went in during lunch. Place was relatively quiet. Decent table service but staff could be more polite towards non-Arabic speaking customers - the difference was very clear. Gourmet burger was rather average but chips and sauces were tasty. Also, too many mirrors for my liking as it prevents privacy.

A favourite from many many years ago during our University days. Helen was a late night favourite after a night out at the clubs. The land shwawarma, the falafel or the spicy potato sandwiches are bang on. Visiting Cafe Helen after ages on Edgware Road, we were not let down. The cafe has expanded into a sit down restaurant but still have the original take out shop. Excellent and value for money Lebanese sandwiches.

Unfortunately,I did not expect the shawarma to be this bad, despite the good reviews on Google for this restaurant.

My order was chicken shawarma and meat shawarma

1- Chicken shawarma was wrapped terribly in paper that was difficult to open except by cutting the paper in an unprofessional way, and the bread was half open, allowing the chicken to fall out of it.
As for the chicken, there are hard and burnt pieces with a disgusting taste, and finally, the large amount of garlic that makes you lose the sense of the taste of chicken.

2- Meat shawarma filled with uneven pieces of fat and I really couldn't finish it

But the stuff was helpful and friendly.

The old cafe Helen used to be a small take away with few seats, the new extension right next to it a proper sit down restaurant.

Nice cafe with some good shawarma.

The hummus however can improve, and the tabouleh salad missing from the Menu here.