Maru’s Bhajia House

As you enter the aroma is intoxicating and your appetite suddenly awakens. The wait seems long, but once the order arrives it’s well worth it. The bhajia’s are obviously the stars of the restaurant, but the mogo it pretty good too and I recommend a glass of passion fruit juice to wash it down with.

The best maru bhajiyas in London. I love this place, it may be small, but they can squeeze you in :)

We were on Ealing road to get hold of some traditional Indian Jewellery for my daughters dance production. Saw Maru’s and remembered that it was highly recommended by a friend of mine so decided to try them out.
Maru’s are an Indian Vegetarian Snack house, they do street food and other Kenyan Indian specialities. The most famous item in the menu is in the Maru Potato Bhajya (or Pakoda/​Pakora). These are served with a freshly made tomato chilli chutney.
We ordered the Maru Bhajia and few other stuff. The place is very popular and gets very crowded. There was a wait for the food to arrive but not a very long wait.
Maru Bhajia and the Chutney was unique, not very different from a traditional Indian Bhajiya but I guess it had the Kenyan influence. The food over all was OK but not extraordinary. May be I entered the place with a huge expectation hence I felt it I didn’t do it for me. The thing I missed most was the Heat Factor. Probably I was expecting the classic Indian taste which was missing in most of the dishes.
Reasonably priced and freshly made, the food is worth a try. Recommended.

The only place to stop for a feed whilst shopping on Ealing Rd! It’s not healthy, it’s not flashy, but it’s yum. I’ve eaten a lot of bhajia in my time (mostly courtesy of my gran) but these were something special — more potato based than the ones I’m used to eating at home.
Make sure you have it with the red chutney it’s served with, and don’t bother with the watery brown chutney in the bottle. I also love mine with a good squirt of ketchup which they thoughtfully provided too! The ‘double portion’ feeds more like 4 people so don’t go overboard with other dishes like we did…
My whole fam enjoyed, especially Daddy M who had a good nostalgia hit after remembering eating maru’s bhajia in East Africa as a schoolboy, and we think it’s the same family aww :)

Hands down the best potato bhajias and hot chutney ever!!!

They certainly make good bhajiyas but I find them slightly overcharged, maybe it’s because of their speciality.

the chutney is nice its taken long to open but it was worth the wait

I love this place and could not wait for it to open when it went through a long period of refurbishment. The speciality is bhajias– which is basically deep fried crispy potato round shaped wedges coated in spicy gram flour batter served with a spicy salsa and tamarind sauce. The result is an explosion of lasting flavour. It is difficult to describe in word and it is best that you taste them for yourself

I love Maru’s bhajia and you haven’t had bhajia till you’ve had it here. Served with their own chutney and speical tamarind water they are really addictive. You must go here if you are a vegetarian.