I have been to sokonis 3 times the first and third time is was good…read more but the 2nd time the food was bland

The prices have increased so significantly plus an additional eat-in charge of 10% that a much…read morebetter value option is Saravanna Bhavan further down Ealing Road or a trip to Southall. Add in that the Southall Branch has its own free car park compared with the expensive on street parking of the London Borough of Brent and Sakonis becomes even less of a proposition. Other establishments have increased prices but not to the extent of Sakonis meaning for just a touch more money one can have a fine dining experience such as The Original Brilliant in Southall instead of a fast casual one. Still giving it three stars as the food is good and the free WiFi very useful when taking a break from shopping in Ealing Road, Wembley.

A suitable place for South Indian & Sri Lankan community people…read more A very good place for take away foods. They've a Variety of Snacks, Vegetarian & Non Vegetarian Foods. Worth for the price & quality. Hurry up & don't wait till late because they fun out of food very very quickly then you've to have for long for the fresh lot . . :(

Very good food, nice to have a good vegan restaurant near me!…read more The beyond burgers are cooked very well, excited to try more items on the menu

From the owner: We do Vegan Pizzasread more

The food and decor here has come a long way in the 20 years it has been open. I have to admit I…read morehave a soft spot for this location since I used to come here with my gran and great-gran when I was a nipper. Today we took my lil god-daughter (new generation!) and we had a lovely lunch here after visiting the temple with her for the first time. The lunch buffet, with samosas and paneer dishes and interesting salads is extremely good value at £7.99, though the a la carte is also great. Special props for the pea kachori, the paneer chilli sizzler - and surprisingly, the veggie burger was particularly tasty. Staff were attentive esp considering our little one was on her first ever restaurant visit!

I took a group of three other older English friends who are used to the standard suburban curry…read morehouse to experience more traditional Indian vegetarian food especially as they are from a generation heavy meat eaters. All of them enjoyed the food dishes I ordered, only things I would improve are the prices have increased significantly and especially adding on the 10% eat-in charge, so for four of us the bill was just under 70 pounds. The crispy bhajia portion was a lot smaller than I had expected it to be. Next time I visit the mandir will try the cafe next to it and see how the snacks are.

Well it's always nice to hear from a chef or owner of a restaurant that the reason you didn't like…read moretheir food was due to some personal fault in your taste buds. Ms Marmite messaged me to ask me "[d]o you actually like vegetarian food?" and whether I was another negative reviewer on the Time Out website who took similar issue with the poor quality of the food at her underground restaurant. Well to straighten her out: (i) that reviewer on the Time Out restaurant is (unfortunately for her) just another unimpressed attendee, (ii) I love vegetarian food though I always find the distinction a little irrelevant as I love good food, be it leaf, root or muscle. Vegetarian food should be judged by no other standard than whether it is good. She also accused me of having no "idea how much that costs?" to cook for 45 odd guests and charge them money. On the same vein, on the Time Out website she states "none of the ingredients I use are cheap". On her blog she states "[t]he dinners are my only income at the moment as it has become a full-time job. I have a child to raise. I don't make alot of money from the dinners. I keep prices low". Well I might not be a professional chef but I have some understanding of how restaurants work. She receives upwards of £30 a head multiple times a week. I highly doubt she pays tax on her income (due to the illegal nature of underground restaurants), she uses volunteers to staff the restaurant (to the extent that she pays them I presume she doesn't pay national insurance, sick pay or a pension) and has none of the base costs of a restaurant. Indeed, she has none of the expectations one has of a restaurant. Late food, sloppy service, bad food are all somehow to be tolerated. As a cheaper example, on Sunday night, I went to a great Turkish restaurant up on Green Lanes. It cost me under £25 a head including alcohol. The food deserved to be covered and wrapped in superlatives. Ms Marmite's food deserves to be covered. What I found interesting is that she plays the PR game so expertly. She has positioned herself as the arbiter of underground restaurants. Whenever the press need a lazy article, here cometh the Underground Restaurant. The recent kerfluffle about TimeWarner asking her not to infringe Harry Potter copyrights amazingly got into the press (one can only wonder how) and generated her acres of coverage and perhaps even press fees. The problem with all of this is that no one approaches her restaurant with a properly critical eye. It is far far easier for reviewers to focus on the novelty of an underground restaurant and the new socio-economic context (i.e. recession) within which it operates. That is why I love citizen reviewer websites such as yelp, you actually get a layman's opinion of what they had then/ there. Untainted by the fluff of PR or the need to generate press. For a demonstration of that read the review of Hix's new restaurant in Soho now and go there in two months. Consider if your experience is the same as the reviewers... When she complains that "it's very hurtful and personal when someone comes to your house and then posts anonymous comments" all I can say this is a world she embraces and asks to be paid by. Don't court press and publicity and cry wolf when it doesn't turn out the way you want it. Don't review other underground restaurants on your blog and then email me separately snide comments about them such as her review of Lady Gray's high tea: "As for Lady Gray's tea, I personally couldn't stand the stifling atmosphere there, and thought her savouries were poor". Finally, and for the sake of disclosure, she offered me my money back. To that offer, I paid for the experience, I learnt my lesson, I wouldn't ask a bad restaurant for my money back, I won't ask you.

I visited Ms Marmite/s restaurant several months back with a group of 15 friends and we had a…read morebrilliant evening, one which we all constantly talked about for weeks afterwards. The food was lovely and very well presented and by the end of the evening everyone was stuffed to the gills and couldn't possibly have fit another morsel in! Ms Marmite was the perfect host and, as well as opening up her home to us all, opened up her garden too, allowing us to relax outside with drinks. The whole evening was an experience like no other, which is what the fee represents. Where else can you arrive at someone's home to have them personally cook 12 courses for you, each one a surprise to the palate, with such a relaxed attitude as to how long the evening goes on for? We ended up around her piano in the dining area singing and playing our favourite songs, long after most people had gone home. I would absolutely recommend an evening at Ms Marmite's underground restaurant and anyone who leaves such a negative review such as the one below, in my opinion, has another agenda going on. Either that or they didn't go to the same place as me and my friends!!

I was delighted to find this place a few blocks from my friends flat. It's 100% vegetarian with…read moreplenty of gluten free and vegan options clearly marked on the menu. I have celiac and did not get sick! They have a fantastic mocktail menu (always a treat) and their mains are very reasonable at £14-16. My husband has the Anniversary PreFixe that included an appetizer, main, dessert, and glass of Prosecco for £19.89. His burger was very good and my tower of risotto and mushrooms was delicious. Our favorite part was the lavender creme brûlée!

From the owner: At The Gate, we love making wonderful food & exceeding our customers' expectations. We create…read moreinspiring vegetarian and vegan food for everyone to enjoy time and time again. Our goal is to share the infinite possibilities of experiencing and enjoying plant-based food. We do our best to grow sustainably and adapt to the needs of the community. We currently have 4 restaurants in London - in St John's Wood, Marylebone, Islington, and Hammersmith.

Awesome food and great service- this place is always packed- make sure you have a reservation…read moreotherwise you will have little chance of getting a table.

If there's one thing you have to get here it's the daal makhani. This is the best one I've ever…read moretried. I also really enjoyed the fresh passion fruit juice they make (it has some masala in it). The lamb chops were a bit chewy, had good flavor but could be cooked better.

Smart, modern vegetarian Indian restaurant, handy for Finchley Central tube station…read more I had the mixed vegetable Bhaji (which was superb) , followed by the Aubergine and Potato special curry with pillau rice and a plain nan. One of the nicer dedicated vegetarian restaurants in London.

Good food with a wide choice .... but I am over seventy and I love Indian food, so I have visited…read moremany, many Indian Restaurants. This is the most unfriendly one I have ever visited! The waitress never smiled once. Someone complained that their dish was cold. It was brought back hot by someone in the kitchen who more or less scowled and slammed it back down

This food was absolute fire. Just straight up unbelievable Indian food at bang up prices. I ordered…read moreway too much to be fair but for curries I got the lamb bhuna and the chicken korma. I got some roti as well. Everything was packaged nicely and oh my god, the flavours were to die for. I think I audibly said "holy crap" the second I tried the lamb bhuna. It was unbelievable. Just truly the best Indian food I've ever had. The fact that it was less than £9 made it even nicer but wow I was blown away. Would absolutely order again and I'm already dreaming of it. So moreish.

Amazing Indian flavor and the service was so nice to us even when we were past closing time. The…read morepaintings around the restaurant are also really cool looking.