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Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in London Dalston

Hardens guides have spent 25 years compiling reviews of the best Dalston restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 12 restaurants in Dalston and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Dalston restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.

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1. Mangal 1 Turkish restaurant in Dalston 10 Arcola St - E8

“The best shish kebabs” – “juicy”, “melt-in-the-mouth tender” – all cooked in “the marble-clad pit in the middle of the room” are “the genuine article” and have won renown for this Turkish grill in Dalston. And it’s “good value” too, aided by the fact that you can BYO. “After 20 years I still go here every week, and it never fails to impress!”

Price £27

Food Exceptional

Service Good

Ambience Average

2. Chick 'n' Sours Chicken restaurant in Dalston 390 Kingsland Rd - E8

“Sublimely juicy chicken with absurdly crunchy coating” – “like KFC pimped to the max” with “must-have dips such as Kewpie mayo and Sriracha sour cream” – have won high ratings for this free-range chicken and sour cocktails duo in Haggerston and Covent Garden (and from September 2018 in Islington too). “It’s so good I can’t stop going back!”.

Price £42

Food Very Good

Service Good

Ambience Good

3. Jidori Japanese restaurant in Dalston 89 Kingsland High St - E8

Well-reputed (slightly hyped) Dalston yakitori café (run by Natalie Lee-Joe & Brett Redman) which wins solid (if not spectacular) ratings for its Japanese small plates. They must be doing something right, as they opened a 50-cover Covent Garden sibling in February 2018, praised in early reports for its “good food and friendly staff”.

Price £23

Food Good

Service Good

Ambience Average

4. Huong-Viet, An Viet House Vietnamese restaurant in Dalston 12-14 Englefield Rd - N1

5. Faulkner’s Fish & chips restaurant in Dalston 424-426 Kingsland Rd - E8

6. Salvation In Noodles Vietnamese restaurant in Dalston 122 Balls Pond Rd - N1

7. Pond American restaurant in Dalston Stamford Works, 3 Gillett St - N16

8. Lucky Chip Burgers, etc restaurant in Dalston 25 Ridley Rd - E8

9. The Vincent British, Modern restaurant in Dalston 3 Atkins Sq, Dalston Lane - E8

Charles Ross, Richard Temple and Jamie Hempseed (who previously ran Bethnal Green boozer The Sebright Arms together) open this airy all-day Hackney spot in May 2017. Local beers, coffee, Sunday brunches and roasts will make it a popular addition the scene.