Ma La Sichuan - London

We have discovered this place over a delivery platform and we cannot stop commanding them. we are little fussy when it comes to Chinese food that must be clean, fresh and tasty. this place has absolutely every single box. whatever we order, they are absolutely delicious. easy pricy for the part, but I understand the dishes are often more expensive on delivery platforms. can wait to visit the restaurant as soon as the covid is over! until then we will continue to operate delivery orders.

Ma La is a modern Sichuan restaurant in Victoria. Sichuan (province in southwestern China) is known for its spicy food and use of chillies and Sichuan pepper that numbs your mouth. Ma La is a relatively unknown restaurant and if my friend Philip had not told me about it, I would not have come across it in the near future. At the moment the best known Sichuan restaurants in London are Bar Shu and Ba Shan in Soho, which is a shame as I actually think Ma La is a lot better. As an example of how little known this restaurant is – even the restaurant website urbanspoon did not have any details of it, and they have details of every single restaurant in London. Having said that Ma La has its fan base and we came here for dinner on a Wednesday evening and it was quite full.

Awesome restaurant! The food was very tasty and just the right amount of spiciness (in my opinion)! The staff was eager to help and the food came in a reasonable time. The place also had nice decoration. I would definitely recommend this restaurant.

Had an amazing experience here tonight for dinner. The group ordered the Prix Fixe and a few other appetizers. The Ma La sampler was exquisite, the pepper squid on it was so light and flavorful. Would definitely go back to try more of their dishes. The dishes were great, but the service was even better. Very friendly and helped us pick the right dishes.

Very nice staff members who were very welcoming and provided nice service and subtle food for us. But I was quite surprised that most of them are Cantonese while they named it as Sichuan and the food was not authentic Sichuan food which were just cooked by 豆瓣酱 mostly and quite salty. Overall the automosphere is nice and cozy which is a good place for the dinner with friends. Food is cheap too in the center of London.