Yalla Yalla

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12 Winsley Street

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Yalla Yalla

Rob Greig / Time Out
Yalla Yalla

Rob Greig / Time Out
Yalla Yalla

Rob Greig / Time Out
Yalla Yalla

Rob Greig / Time Out
Yalla Yalla

Rob Greig / Time Out
Yalla Yalla

Rob Greig / Time Out
Yalla Yalla

Rob Greig / Time Out

Yalla Yalla

Rob Greig / Time Out

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Wed Jun 13 2012

Soho’s lively little Lebanese hub continues its success, judging by the numbers who cram around the tables in the distinctive yellow, black and white interior. At the back is a counter stacked with ready-made wraps to take away.

This cheery café is a world away from staid traditional Lebanese restaurants. There’s none of the formality (or the space), but the standard of food is just as high. On a recent visit, we loved the tangy stickiness of sawda djej (melt-in-the-mouth chicken livers), which, in this version, came in a dark sauce sweet with pomegranate seeds. Falafel made a great contrast: soft, cushiony insides and crisp shells, served with a generous portion of tahina. They went well with the dense, garlicky houmous too. Manakish zaatar was perfect: pitta bread drizzled with olive oil and dusted with lemony zaatar spice, warmed in the oven just enough to let the flavour flood out: simple but delicious.

Yalla Yalla is popular as a lunch spot – and staff can get overwhelmed – but it’s open in the evening too, and serves grills and mains alongside the meze all day. It also has an extensive, largely Lebanese, wine list and cocktails.

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Address:
Yalla Yalla 12 Winsley Street
London
W1W 8HQ

Phone:
020 7637 4748
Website:
www.yalla-yalla.co.uk
Opening hours:
Meals served 11am-11pm Mon-Fri; 11am-11.30pm Sat
Transport:
Tube: Tottenham Court Road tube
Price:
Main courses £4-£13.75. Set lunch £7.50 2 courses
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1. Yalla Yalla
  - 12 Winsley Street
    London
    W1W 8HQ
  - 020 7637 4748
  - www.yalla-yalla.co.uk
  - 51.516310,-0.138511

Categories:
Food and drink
Facilities:
Eating and drinking facilities. Café. Restaurant and bar facilities. Take away. Dinner. Accessible facilities. Outdoor facilities. Tables outdoors
Occasions:
Going in a group. Hip factor

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(17 ratings)

Great for a quick wrap for lunch.

Nick Wed Sep 7 2011
Rated as: 4/5
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Just had the worst experience ive ever had in a restaurant!! This place has the worst Manager in History at the WINSLEY STREET Branch, he has the worst Customer Service relations ever. Ive been in quite a few times here, recommended and taken friends and always enjoyed the food. So i decided to try a take out wrap. Never again! the service was chaotic, the was no system to placing orders, people who ordered after me got the wraps before me, they couldnt find a card machine so was left waiting even longer, they had no idea what was under the toasting press, so they had to keep opening up everything which took longer. Ive been in places that serve taken away wraps which are toasted, and its never taken this long Now i explained this the the Manager, and my experience as a customer.......but he didnt want to hear any off it, all i got was explained over and over was that it takes time to cook the wraps. which i totally understand, but they could have speed it up by having a better system. so he keeps saying this, making me more angry, he just didnt want to hear my experience as a customer. He then basically told me to go away if i didnt like the service and never come back im very shocked by this, as all he need to say was that he was sorry, the sorry goes along way, and that he would look into it. Not much to ask, really, that way he would have kept me as a customer, and also all of my friends, im now going to tell everyone ive recommended it to NOT TO GO

ADAM Wed Aug 24 2011
Rated as: 1/5
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Addicted!

J.C Wed Mar 30 2011
Rated as: 5/5
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excellent as always.....

Paul Sat Mar 26 2011
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FANTASTIS food - some of the best Lebanese I've had in London. Excellent service, great atmosphere and all at a very reasonable price. Yalla Yalla (on Winsley St) is minutes off the hustle & bustle of Oxford St - the perfect place to stop and recharge your batteries with some delicious food!

Emmy Sat Mar 19 2011
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I went to Yalla Yalla with 5 friends on Friday night, as nice as the food was, our evening was completely overshadowed by the appaling service we received. We were firstly given a tiny table to try and squeeze all 6 of us onto. We were then left waiting for at least 15 minutes before being asked if we would like to order drinks. After ordering food, 4 people's main courses arrived when we were still eating our starters and we were left to tidy the table to make room for the plates. The 2 remaining main dishes arrived after not only had the other 4 of us finished eating, but our plates had been cleared. There were no apologies throughout and all we were offered at the end were a few baklava. Not happy.

Kate Adams Sat Mar 5 2011
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