Doost

Very good food, good service and good atmosphere! Everything I was looking for! I recommend it without any doubts!

Excellent food and service the server was awesome and super friendly. The Chicken Badamjan was excellent as was the Sultani and the Barg Kabob. Would highly recommend, good ambience was nice, good music and drinks. Must try if in London.

Doost’s offer could be boiled down to three simple components: local, quality reasonably priced food. I’m not au fait with Persian food, but the majority of the sharing platter we had was flavoursome and good quality — even on a Sunday late afternoon graveyard shift. Interestingly, or strangely, there is a significant vodka menu, which I cannot speak for.
Kennington cross is not the busiest area for restaurant visitors so it’s hard to know how Doost could still be here if not putting out good food. The interior is dark, but modern, simple and clean. There’s a reasonable wine selection (including a good pinot grigio and malbec), but we decided to steer clear of the aforementioned vodka.
Not much else to speak about, but worth a visit if you’re looking for something ‘local’ and different, then worth a punt. You get a discount voucher for other businesses in the area (including amici on the other side of Kennington Cross, which appears to be run by the same group). Let me know how the vodka goes down!

Great to have this addition to Kennington high street. This used to be the old Amici site but has been tarted up to become a smart Persian restaurant. Service is excellent and welcoming. Food is uniformly good. However, it’s definitely not cheap and maybe isn’t perfectly positioned as the kind of neighbourhood restaurant where you’d go frequently.

This used to be Amici but has undergone a transformation into a snazzy upscale Persian restaurant. Service is friendly and knowledgeable. Food was delicate and interesting. The room looks great and has pleasant, unobtrusive live Persian instrumentalists sometimes. Not super cheap but I would definitely recommend.