Ranoush

I did a semester abroad in London and we used to come here regularly. Came back in September 2015, over 10 years later and it’s still just as good. The lamb Schwarma wrap should win some sort of award. Amazing.

A tasty little middle eastern restaurant that also does take away. On the expensive side of middle eastern but I would say its one of the better options for a feed on the High Street. Its like a posh pita place. With so much more flavour and very good meats.
All of the dips, labne etc are quite generous in serving sizes so be careful not to over order. IThe labne was whipped with herbs and so delicious but probably too much for just two people sharing. Better if you were in a four. The highlights for me were the baba ganoush with pomegranate seeds (YUM), the humous with lamb (perfectly cooked meat) and fattoush salad (fried crunched pita bits gave it a great crunch). You get a nice little plate of complimentary baklava at the end of your meal. All of this is best shared and comes out all at once. Staff are lovely.
The wine list is a bit meh and they do not do BYO.

This is shaworma so please don’t mistake it for the typical turkish style donar mind ypu this is a good example of it although I would go with the lamb ¹⁰⁄₁₀ times enjoy

Great little spot for Lebanese — you might not realize the selection of salads, dips and grilled dishes they have by the looks of the front, but its basically a polished version of a kebab spot. There are tables to stand at if you’d like to takeaway, but also a handful of booth-​y tables up along the back where you get offered a proper menu and nice service.
My lamb kebab pita was super juicy (and so generous with the meat!) with lots of warm smooth tahini, dotted with ripe red tomatoes, and a few pickles here and there. Have it with a carrot juice or one of their other fruit/​veggie juice concoctions, you’ll be set and satisfied for the day.

Enjoyed Ranoush on my recent trip to London. Ranoush on Kensington High Street is the «little brother» of Maroush, and this location is narrow and small, with limited table space so I suspect they do more take out and delivery than table service. Still, It was spotless with a big open kitchen area where you can see them making the shawarma and kebabs.
The food is Lebanese. They have a pretty comprehensive menu with all the common dishes, and some that are not so common. We went twice, and both times the quality of the food, and the service was excellent. I would say this was one of the better meals, and better values we had in London.
Recommended!

Really like this place. It’s very clean and the décor is modern and fresh with a big open kitchen area and a small seating area at the rear of the venue.
The food is Lebanese. Serving shawarma, shish kebabs, chips, salads, humous, lamb rice… you get the idea. My favourite is the chicken shish wrap and the lamb shawarma wrap filled with lettuce, onion, tomato, gherkin, chilli and garlic sauce. Amazinggggg.
The prices are slightly more than a greasy kebab shop but that can be expected for the quality of the food.
Staff…all the staff are really friendly and always make you feel welcome.
Ohh also try one of there fresh fruit cocktails they are the bombbbbb.

EdMeh for eat in. The good left me a bit ill. The service was not bad. The complimentary baklava might have been the best part. I think I’d get a wrap here, but not much else.

Very disappointing.
I visited Ranoush late one night while returning from a show at the Royal Albert Hall. Its open till 3 AM on weekends, and was one of the very few places in the area serving food when i went just a little before midnight.
Actually all I wanted was a doner kebab. But I guess Kensington does not have many of the roadside cheap kebab shops that the people from the rest of London take for granted. I ordered a lamb shwarma and chips.
The shwarma was priced at £14 … inordinately high in my opinion. The plate was half full with meat, and the remaining part of the dish had salad. The meat was simply poorly made. It was very dry, not juicy at all. Either the quality of the raw material was poor or it had been made the day before. Since I was paying £14 for that, it hurt.
The chips cost £3.50. It was hot and very good. But there was too much of it … for at least two persons. They didn’t sell a single portion, and so I, unwillingly, had to waste half the dish.
The service level was mixed. They were cordial but unattentive. It was difficult to call someone to the table without actually shouting out aloud.
Although I went to Ranoush without any high expectations, they managed to severely disappoint me. It was a poor end to an otherwise great evening.

On returning back from Cairo — which saw me doing a light bit of probing on human pyramids — back to our London office. A refuge where we’d like to think that the ‘pen is still mightier than the sword,’ one would be forgiven for thinking that having spent a few days in the Middle East, it might find me balking at the sight of a skewer, let alone any kind of cooked animal flesh. BUT no, the meat craving still lingered. It was obviously all that fried camel. Although I admit, the single humped dromedary was by far more tender than the steak I’d had in a pub in Elephant and Castle before I had left.
Ranoush Juice in Kensington is great for a not too expensive gap fill. They serve everything from wraps to plate loads of all that tasty Middle Eastern faire that we lick our chops for. And let’s face it, these guys really know how to mix those flavours. Mint, tomatoes, onions, chickpeas, hommos, yoghurt, secret spices — imported by special arrangement with MI6 operatives — and of course, meat in abundance. The prices are damn good too for the substantial amount that’s there looking up at you on your plate, seemingly ready to be devoured.
Ranoush Juice is part of the family of restaurants that cover the breadth and depth of London. From Marlebone to Chelsea and everywhere in-​between. If they are trying to infiltrate and convert our culture before their military arm’s final push by al Qaeda on Westminster, they’re doing a pretty good job. One of their delightful chains, ‘Beirut Express’ — known for it’s express service and rather not, as one journalistic colleague put it, an gastronomically ‘explosive’ experience seems to be winning over the minds of many a Londoner who were breast fed on ‘Fish and Chips’ and I can see the day coming, due to their popularity, where we will need them more than they need us (one sure way of forcing us to learn to speak Arabic, as once we are finally fully addicted, the menus will surely only be in that language)
There are some insidious plots in this world that we are drawn into that we can do nothing about. Just go along for the ride, or in this case, the food. This may well be one of them!

Ended up going to this plate late night (which is a relative term in Kensington since everything closes before midnight in Kensington), but even if it hadn’t been the only spot open, it would’ve been my top choice. Schwarma pitas were delicious.

Wow.
First of all, it’s open late… really late. Which is what I needed, everything else was closed, it was apres theatre, and I was starved. 12:30 am. Open and plenty of people.
I ordered the dolmas first (they are called something else, but the grape leaves stuffed with rice and spices). I order these in every restaurant they are served, I can honestly say these are the best I’ve ever had. tasty, perfectly seasoned, yum. The hummus with shaved lamb was delicious, and my friend got a fab shawarma sandwich and falafal. Everything was as good as we’ve ever had. they gave us complimentary baklava desserts. The service was normal, not slow or disorganized, and we didn’t order any of the more interesting specialties, although I wanted to, but all 5 dishes we ordered were on the menu and served quickly.
thumbs up!

I was introduced to this joint by a friend who lives in London. I have never ate in because each time I went, I could not resist getting a mixed or lamb shawarma and cocktail juice to eat while standing by the food counter, watching the two huge sticks of chicken and lamb getting roasted. The shawarma is one of the best I have ever had. I admit I don’t know much about such foods, but I know good juicy meat when I bite into a piece. Ranoush definitely has amazingly flavorful, juicy and well textured meats, especially the lamb – it is irresistible! I also highly recommend the cocktail juice, it goes very well with the shawrama.

Slow and disorganized service, on top of that the eat in menu has a whole variety of food that they don’t even serve. Like the specialities, all of them sound delicious and consist of raw lamb but they can’t serve it because it’s raw or something, and the lamb tongue appetizer, and .oh i don’t know. that’s about when i gave up and decided to go back to my take away menu.
so yes, buy it to go, or if you’re really desperate to take a seat, ask for the sandwich menu. no point reading something you can’t get anyway.