Amazing Xinjiang restaurant at Camberwell!!!!! The soup noodle and skewers are the best dishes of the night. I can't wait to go back and try other dishes. The price is very reasonable. We had 4 people, 6 dishes and 3 beers that night, the bill was only 50 pounds!!!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
My friend and I came to have a catch up chat after a long time having not seen one another. I booked and was glad I did! It was heaving full of students (like ourselves), but our table was cleared and we had plenty of room to chat. The food is amazing, though a little spicy for my friend. I am more of a pour chilli on everything person. We had a selection of vegetarian delights which surpassed anything you would have had from your average Chinese takeaway. All of this and our beers turned out to be outrageously cheap! I will be coming here regularly.
The days are getting darker. To top it all off, it was wet and cold enough for gloves when I made a trip to Silk Road - A Chinese restaurant in Camberwell. This joint had better
Surprisingly tasty little gem in south London. Plenty of fast food places on this road but this place was a stand out chinese restaurant. The noodles were hand made and super tasty and the charcoal grilled meat and fish skewers were fantastic.
I advise you to pre book or be prepared to queue on a Saturday. Well worth the wait though.
Only in London do you get to try food from a provence different to the normal.
Silk Road is an unassuming place on Camberwell Church Street, with more of a café vibe than that of a restaurant. Having heard reports of hour-long waits mid-week we booked as it was a Saturday, and good job as the place was absolutely packed. Good sign!. Silk Road focuses on culinary favourites from the Xinjiang province in North-West China, which demonstrates other Asian influences such as kebabs and dumplings, but with Chinese spicing – LOTS of chilli, as well as heavy cumin and star anise.
Totally amazing flavours. Try the noodles and the Aubergine- truly a treat
I loved this place the food wa good and spicy and the service was lovely! Lamb was tender and the noodles were great! Can't wait to take friends back, thank you
Not your average Chinese!. Home style cabbage, shrimp, egg and spring onion dumplings, middle plate chicken, too many lamb shish, kelp salad, loadsa beer, big grease stains down the front of our shirts, massive smiles on our faces, tiny bill. Nuff said!
The home style cabbage is unbelievable.
Excellent place. Hot, spicey and you get loaddsssss... Very cheap.
Had cucumber salad, beef and onion dumplings, noodles with lamb and cabbage, pork belly hot dish. Dishes were tasty and spicy.
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The food here warms both your belly and heart. Has hand-pulled noodles and veggie options. So good!
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Went there to try the CABBAGE homestyle (£8.80) as recommended and it did not disappoint. I am a meat eater but I can happily eat this with a bowl of pulled noodles (£2.50). Prices are okay for certain things. I would definitely get the lamb skewers (£1.50 each) they are divine. I wouldn't order the special noodles (£10) comes with egg. I enjoyed the plain noodles with Cabbage more than the £10 special lamb noodles. Everything else was too spicy and full of onions ginger and chili. It dulled my taste buds. I would not recommend those with a chili rating of 2. The pork belly slices (£9) there were hardly any pork. The cucumber salad (£6) was a bit bland, I would have preferred if it had a bit of salt and vinegar. The fried beef dumplings (£6.50) had a funny ginger taste om the inside. I did not enjoy it, they did give a lot for the price though, but the inside tasted like frozen cheap meat. Too bad they didn't have soya milk when I went. It was recommended by a friend.
I would go again, but avoid all the chili dishes. I would try the aubergine homestyle next time. Service is quick, food comes out quickly.
No fuss, no frills. This place serves delicious XinJiang style food - not your average Chinese takeaway or restaurant. The menu has a wide variety of lamb and other uncommon meats like gizzards and tripe as is typical for the region. If those are not to your liking, there is pork and chicken available as well. Great portion size to go with the reasonable price. Recommend ordering a variety of dishes and getting a bowl of rice to go with it. also definitely try the skewers!
Will definitely be coming back.
Amazing food. Very good prices. Big portions.
The lamb skewers were juicy and exploding with flavour.
The Middle Plate Chicken was a little too sweet for me but HUGE and still delicious.
Cucumber salad was a nice side.
Dumplings were hot and delicious.
Service was good, will be coming back here.
There are not many Xinjiang restaurants in London. I have passed by this restaurant many times and have not tried it. Today I finally have the opportunity. There were already a lot of people at 2pm on a Sunday, but the food was served quickly. My friend said that he couldn't taste the Xinjiang flavor, and the dishes were all spicy, but we all felt that the taste was good, and the price was affordable.
Ordered Garlic Pork (seriously expecting a few more slices) and Special Cooked Lamb Noodle. Altogether paid around £13.80, pretty good value for what it is. Not sure how authentic it really is though, but really enjoyed the noodles there.
Occasionally drives pass Camberwell and saw this restaurant rather busy at times and finally had a opportunity to try! The Trio Dumplings were the best out of all the dishes we've ordered. To be honest some of the dishes were way too oily for myself thus it put me off a little bit since there wasn't much flavour. Soya milk was unique being served a milk carton basically 😅 Aubergine again had a slight kick of spice nothing heavy but again soaked with oil. I'm aware of Xinjiang Dishes tend to be oily but yeah... Lamb Skewers were bit pricey but had a nice size meaty part mixture of Lamb fat. The pork belly was Spot on and the same can be said with the Beef Stomach Banging Flavour. Price was above average I would say.
Haven’t been back here for almost 8 years and I am glad to see that they are still around and busy as ever.
Food as good as I remembered and prices haven’t increased that much so still a bargain.
Only issue I felt was the lamb skewers not as good as I remembered it and toilet facilities a bit dirty.
Lovely experience here; we were seated promptly and the service was fast and friendly. This is definitely different from your typical Chinese and the menu is completely authentic, originating from northern china, so don’t be expecting fried rice, spring rolls, calamari etc. we ordered the Xinjiang style noodles and the special cooked lamb noodles and it was delicious.
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