Reviews - The Olive
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Lor C. • 2 reviews
25 January 2025
10/10The food was delicious. Good selection of food. Surprise of flamenco night which added to the evening.
Deborah S. • 5 reviews
29 January 2025
9/10Good food, good choice, good value. Convenient opposite Leytonstone tube
Jesenka M. • 1 review
2 December 2024
10/10
We love Olive. The food, the staff, ambience, everything. It is always a winner.
Jacqueline W. • 1 review
24 November 2024
10/10Family visit to the restaurant recently was a lovely experience ...good service , food was excellent and the atmosphere was really nice. Would recommend this restaurant to family and friends.
Chris P. • 1 review
9 November 2024
9.5/10Staff attentive but also managed to be unobtrusive, doing their job efficiently and working around the needs of our large party of 13 diners. Great variety of dishes; something for everyone. An enjoyable evening out.
Ian B. • 3 reviews
4 October 2024
10/10Nice place, lovely staff, great food, reasonably priced. What more can you say.
Mylee O. • 10 reviews
2 September 2024
8/10
Good portions and nice atmosphere to have a catchup
Amy S. • 1 review
23 August 2024
10/10Delicious food, impeccable customer service!
Andrew T. • 1 review
4 August 2024
8.5/10Service was good and very helpful although a bit slow at times. Food was of a good quality and well prepared and presented.
Maxine M. • 2 reviews
14 July 2024
10/10The food is always good and very good value. A lovely and popular restaurant. I use it regularly. Service always good too.
Sumaira E. • 1 review
12 July 2024
10/10Very good food and service
Glen J. • 1 review
16 June 2024
9/10met my wife at the Olive Tree over 13 yrs ago.
Seema G. • 25 reviews
8 March 2024
6/10Average Turkish restaurant Service was a bit slow No mocktails
Fiona F. • 1 review
10 March 2024
5/10Over crowded and poor food. Shame as the staff were lovely. Been before but not sure I would go again
The Olive • Owner
Hi Fiona, today was Mother’s Day, generally is the busiest day only day all year . We serve as its normal as a busy day. I hope we will see you you again in another time. We happy to cover today’s negative, anytime.
Elaine S. • 2 reviews
16 February 2024
8/10Good food. Friendly professional staff. Good value lunchtime menu.
Sundra R. • 1 review
10 February 2024
8/10The highlight was the flamenco dancing and that's the reason we went. It was very good that my husband gave the flamenco dancer a £20 as he was very impressed. The food was average.
Giovanna C. • 1 review
9 February 2024
6/10We were disappointed because the rice comes already cooked with butter, so for vegans like us or people allergic to dairy it was a big disappointment. Also all their bread comes already with butter on it!!! However, The waitress was kind to offer us bread without butter as an exception to their strange rules.
Paul L. • 3 reviews
3 February 2024
8/10Nice restaurant located near leytonstone station
Emma C. • 1 review
31 December 2023
10/10Went here for New Years eve dinner, very good food and service was great.
Marcelle E. • 2 reviews
10 December 2023
10/10Great food
Maggie L. • 1 review
2 December 2023
10/10The restaurant was great.....lovely food as usual. However, having booked on thefork web site and having had several confirmation e-mails, the restaurant had no record of our booking. Luckily there was a table free, but I would recommend double checking your booking with the restaurant.
Kimberly H. • 1 review
1 December 2023
5/10Firstly, the fork discount barely applies as this restaurant add a mandatory service charge to the bill which cancels out most of the fork discount. The bill before he added the fork discount was £55, after we got a new bill with the fork discount it was £51 including £5 service. Very sneaky. Our food was fresh but we must not have ordered like everyone in these reviews talking about the portion size and amazing food. We didn't feel it was good value for money as we left disappointed and not full. My kleftiko arrived with NO potatoes init, I had to flag someone for attention and after some time he brought out a tiny plate with a few baby potatoes & explained the kitchen is busy so they forgot.... with their mistake I was not offered anything extra. It was so disproportionate with the lamb shank I was left with meat and nothing to eat with it. No bread was offered or anything and the food lacked in seasoning which may have gotten lost in the sauce. The shank was soft enough to fall off the bone though but I wouldn't order it again. Nice Xmas lights and a nice fresh mint leaf tea, slow service, had to wait and flag someone down but they were friendly when they did come over. Overall wouldn't recommend based on our 2 dishes and would go to a good Turkish for the other food on the menu where we would defo get our monies worth and leave content.
Margaret E. • 1 review
17 November 2023
10/10This restaurant has never failed me in the quality, price and portion size of their food. The staff are friendly and helpful.
Deborah G. • 1 review
15 September 2023
10/10An absolutely wonderful restaurant, service,food and ambience. A real undiscovered spot!
Elizabeth W. • 1 review
3 September 2023
9.5/10Our second visit. We enjoyed the food as much as last time. Only three tables in use so I was surprised how difficult it was to attract attention of staff. For hygiene sake they need to be taught to only handle cutlery by handles rater thn the eating end.
Ghazala J. • 1 review
2 August 2023
8.5/10
It was a quiet Wednesday lunchtime and my friend and I came here at 1pm. The lunchtime offers are very competitive and great value for money. We had a starter of humus with the most amazing bread. The humus had great texture( not like some places where it is too heavy on tahini) and the portion was generous. My friend had the sea-bass and I had the chicken kofte which were both accompanied by a green salad and white fluffy rice. I would love to visit again and have dinner here. The servers were friendly but not hovering so felt really comfortable. Try this little gem In Leytonstone which is just opposite the underground station and to the left.
Ian R. • 1 review
16 July 2023
8.5/10Excellent food and generous portions. Fairly empty which is surprising given the quality of the fare. Second viit and will definitely go again. It is child friendly as well, but big enough for this not to put people off going!
Richard S. • 1 review
18 June 2023
3.5/10The food was very nice. However overall the service was terrible!!! We had a young lady serve us whose service was fairly ok. However due to the young man who served us; who created a horrible experience for our party; though the food was actually quite nice; due to his bad service and lack of understanding the importance of the customer experience. I will never return to this restaurant !! . Thanks you
Kate K. • 1 review
17 May 2023
10/10Lovely restaurant with super food and lots of choice. Excellent cocktails. I always eat here when in Leytonstone and will continue to do so. Would recommend.
James R. • 7 reviews
14 May 2023
10/10Fantastic food, brilliant staff, lovely atmosphere
Lor C. • 2 reviews
30 April 2023
8/10Welcoming venue. Food was very tasty. Good size portions and value for money. The staff were attentive. All diets were catered for. A lovely place to celebrate a birthday.
Nader S. • 1 review
2 April 2023
9/10Very nice food, and cocktails. I never been here before, but I will come back for sure. The staff are very nice and polite.
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