The best restaurants serving Other international-cuisines food in England

I've no desire to hammer a restaurant for a single bad experience but from other recent reviews it seems we are not the only ones to suffer. I only wished I'd seen these reviews; I'd looked on Google where they are much more favourable (though, with hindsight, a recent 5-star review there now reads suspiciously). We booked for 8 people at 5.30pm, allowing plenty of time to relax before an 8pm show at the O2. I received an online confirmation, from Rico Sabor/Maracuya. When we arrived, the restaurant had no record of our booking. The explanation was something about 'two websites', which we didn't understand. No matter - the place wasn't busy. Our drinks order came relatively quickly, though one drink was incorrect. Again, no matter. We had booked expecting a Spanish restaurant, and we wanted to avoid the generic chains inside the O2. The menus offered were Spanish, Latino and... Ukrainian. Not what we'd anticipated. Again, no matter. We ordered 8 mains and a couple of side dishes from the Spanish/Latino selection. By 7pm no food had emerged. A couple of other tables arriving after us appeared to have received part of their orders. At 7.10pm, our first dish arrived - and it was wrong. A very harassed staff member promised 'five minutes'. By 7.20pm, two other main dishes and one side had emerged, of which another one was wrong. There was no sign at all of the other six main dishes. At 7.30pm, we abandoned, to join the queue at the O2 and grab something to eat inside. The staff member who spoke to us had passable English. None of the others appeared to speak more than basic English. Again, that's no problem providing they can take and execute a food order. One insisted they were 'very busy' - which was simply untrue. Another table abandoned as we had. Speaking to them outside, their experience was identical to ours. We suspect there is some sort of change of ownership going on here and a repositioning, perhaps to a fully Ukrainian restaurant. However, the Rico Sabor site is still taking bookings (is this the 'two websites' business?). This is a prime location and rent can't be cheap. If our experience is anything to go by, they simply won't survive. But unless they seriously up their game, they don't really deserve to.

I love Caribbean food... not just the basic jerk chicken but goat and famous roti and pretty much anything made with plantains... and as everyone else has pointed out, the staff are SOOO nice, trying to be friendly, etc. Unfortunately the management seems to have not a single business bone in their body, and the kitchen turns over chefs as often as I change my socks, so how can they establish demselves? The meat still has bones in (cheapest cuts?) and the chicken is dry, and the rice is cold.... and the flavours come from a bottle. But I keep coming back because I want you to be better.Please up your game, serve proper food, lay out the tables like you care, turn the music down, put the food into the roti rather than beside it (once you've used cubed meat rather than butchered carcass) and you may be able to build up a customer base! You're the only one in the area, so we need you!

Lovely burgers and great customer service. Replaced a spilled drink without requesting. Polite staff clean calm environment. Lovely apple caramel fritter and hot chocolate

18 of us were at the restaurant today for our Aqua Ladies Annual Christmas Lunch - this is our 4th year now and each year it just gets better and better. The food was piping hot and very tasty, I had the traditional Roast Crown of Turkey and all the trimmings - couldn't fault it. My Festive Dessert was the Spiced Pear, Toffee and Cranberry Cake WOW - I wish I could bake like that! Jo the Manageress really looked after us and everything went like clockwork - not a single complaint from the team (no mean achievement!). All this for just £15.95 very impressed. Same time next year???

Really would recommend! Lovely staff, lovely place proper carribain vibe. Reviews are full of rubbish. Food was 10/10.

Great food and good value. Clean restaurant. So much nicer than eating in a filthy McDonalds. Surprised by the negative reviews.

¡Por dónde empiezo! ¡El lugar necesita ser cerrado! Contado a las 7. ¡A las 23:00 no tienen cabra al curry ya que van a cerrar pronto! ¡Sirva comida hasta las 11 pm! A 25 minutos de mi hotel para encontrar este lugar! ¡Compré 2 pollos! ¡Acabo de regresar a mi hotel y ver al instante que el pollo está crudo! ¡Caliente ensalada de col de sabor amargo! ¡Detuve a mi compañero de intentarlo! Lugar necesita cerrar inmediatamente

Pasé por el camino a través con mi hijo, pero absolutamente basura de servicio al cliente Los trabajadores tenían actitud y eran tan groseros como era mi primera experiencia, pero gracias a ellos va a ser la última. Nadie debe trabajar un trabajo que no quiere y tratar a los clientes de la manera en que me trataron a mí.

Great little sandwich shop - no frills but consistent, reasonably priced and good quality, highly recommend the mozzarella, tomato and basil baguette!

Excelente lugar para empezar un domingo de paseo por la ciudad!!!cafe buenisimo y unos panes de hogaza crujientes y vacios por dentro con dos variedades, bacon y carne y otro vegetariano!!una maravilla!!gran negocio!!!

Ordered here on Saturday night, absolutely awful. I measly piece of chicken jerk and the peppered steak was really salty. Not worth the £24 for two meals, they had no chips available. Save your money many better takeaways to spend your money with.

What a complete shambles! Very poor communication throughout. After weeks of trying, we eventually managed to book a time to use a Groupon voucher, bought for us as a gift. We travelled nearly an hour to get there, and when we arrived, the place was closed. Gates were padlocked shut and no-one was answering the mobile phone number on thier contact details. An absolute sh1t-show that should be avoided. BEWARE!

Empezaré diciendo que este fue un intento aventurero de algo diferente y que no estábamos familiarizados con la cocina nigeriana de antemano. Así que no estoy seguro de si lo que experimentamos fue auténtico o no, pero ciertamente puedo decir que no fue agradable. Probamos algunos platos africanos, incluyendo Crain Crain, Okra y sopa de aceite de cacahuete y todos eran increíblemente aceitosos y tenían un sabor horrible, creo que los fhjs vinieron de la 'salsa de palma pil' todos los platos fueron descritos como servidos. El servicio era bastante lento y un bjt hit o miss pero principalmente miss. la lager tampoco era genial y una marca que no conocía (el Roma creo) que a £ 7 una pinta era muy caro por la calidad. Puede ser genial para algunas personas si se trata de una auténtica cocina nigeriana. Pero realmente no era para nosotros; tuvimos que parar en otro lugar en el camino a casa para obtener algo para quitar el sabor insípido!

Mi vuelo se retrasó, el aeropuerto estaba muy ocupado y quería algo para comer y sentarse (solo estaba de pie). Estaba sentado rápidamente y casi tenía un corazón adjunto mirando los precios, más de 20 GBP por una hamburguesa. Loca. Incluyendo dos copas de vino, pagué un poco más de 40 GBP. Burger no estaba tan mal, las patatas fritas eran pequeñas y gordas, pero en general escandalosas. Nunca más.