Ali's Alcove

18 Maiden St, Barnstaple
01271 379099

Recent Reviews

Predator

Amazing texture and quantity. Would definitely go again!

hazem ismail

Delicious food..

TommyCoyra

We've just had a jemmy twitcher and spicy chips and absolutely loved it. A great combination of meats and flavours and very reasonable in price. The pizzas that were going out looked very tempting too but it'll be hard not to chose a JT again next time. Highly recommended and we will back soon for sure. Tom Jalapenos

Roberto Moyse

Love this place!! Jemmy twitcher is the very best....

Lee Mitchell

Nothing better than a kebab to round of a day drinking.

Mande Joslin

Jemmie twitcher was spot on as usual

Mars Q

A disgrace to Turkish cuisine. How you can brand yourself as ‘Turkish’ is beyond me. You clearly strive for the cheapest food you can cook and easiest way to prepare. The mixed ‘kebob’ was inedible and frankly disgusting. Wouldn’t order again even if I was starving. If your target market is drunk white people at 4am then fine but don’t false advertise online.

Callum Perryman

What a brilliant service everytime I order from Ali and he comes out and drops it To myself. Food is brilliant and can't beat the chips. Thanks Ali much appreciated ? every weekend I go hereKid-friendliness: Such amazing people

Billy Bashir

best fast food food I have ever tasted in my life. wish I could order it via air freight .

Billy B

best fast food food I have ever tasted in my life. wish I could order it via air freight .

Jojo19750ldgirl

Food ok but missing items when delivery arrived which was very disappointing, Will put me off ordering from them again shame as used to be the best in Barnstaple

keefnjojo

We popped in here after a night out in Barnstaple and needed a snack on the way back to the hotel. We didn't want much sk just ordered a portion of Spicy Chips, we didn't wait long as there wasn't a queue. The chips were amazing and tasty spicy not hot spicy. If we are ever in Barnstaple again we would definitely pop in here.

Hayden Tarr

Absolutely terrible, I cannot believe that the staff in this shop would send out the food they have to me this evening. They clearly have no standards. I have heard about places like these but guess I could consider myself lucky up til now having not ever had to experience one. I don’t write a lot of reviews unless it was particularly terrible or particularly good. I understand how much effect these reviews have on small businesses, but after their performance this evening, I just can’t keep quiet as I wouldn’t want anybody else wasting their hard earned money on what they may see as a little treat, while the cost of living is so high. How these con artists can accept money off people for the food they produce is beyond me. You couldn’t pay me to dine with Ali’s alcove again.To start, on just eat it stayed free garlic bread or bottle with orders over £18. This did not materialise. A shame but not the end of the world.The delivery driver very quickly handed me the food and scurried off abruptly, which at the time I didn’t think much of… now I know why!DO NOT ORDER THE FRIED CHICKEN!! It’s not what you’d expect… it’s not coated in eleven nor even one herb or spice… okay fair enough it didn’t state it was, but I expected a little more than just chicken thighs and a drumstick chucked into a deep fat fryer with the basket on top, so the bottom side is left to burn for half an hour at 200 degrees. In all honesty the chicken is what lead me to write this review. Dry, burnt, flavourless, greasy pucks of chicken carcass. Yum.I also ordered the large donner meat and chips. First off; it is not by a long shot a large portion. Garlic sauce was watery and very sparse. For some reason they decided to put mozzarella on the chips also… my least favourite cheese. It was gelatinous and not a welcome addition to the salty greasy kebab meat and soggy chips I was presented with for £7.My girlfriend ordered a pizza. Which she rated a 4/10 as it was greasy and bland.She did however on a lighter note say her cheesy chips were nice. So I guess there’s at least one positive nearly £30 later.Anyway… moral of the story is, don’t do it. Order from somewhere else that will value your custom and not have the audacity to send/serve you food anywhere near the standard that the staff of Ali’s alcove believe to be acceptable.AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Please don’t waste your money.I have taken pictures but not sure how to upload them.

Charmaine Ann Sutton

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Hayden Tarr

Absolutely terrible, I cannot believe that the staff in this shop would send out the food they have to me this evening. They clearly have no standards. I have heard about places like these but guess I could consider myself lucky up til now having not ever had to experience one. I don’t write a lot of reviews unless it was particularly terrible or particularly good. I understand how much effect these reviews have on small businesses, but after their performance this evening, I just can’t keep quiet as I wouldn’t want anybody else wasting their hard earned money on what they may see as a little treat, while the cost of living is so high. How these con artists can accept money off people for the food they produce is beyond me. You couldn’t pay me to dine with Ali’s alcove again. To start, on just eat it stayed free garlic bread or bottle with orders over £18. This did not materialise. A shame but not the end of the world. The delivery driver very quickly handed me the food and scurried off abruptly, which at the time I didn’t think much of… now I know why! DO NOT ORDER THE FRIED CHICKEN!! It’s not what you’d expect… it’s not coated in eleven nor even one herb or spice… okay fair enough it didn’t state it was, but I expected a little more than just chicken thighs and a drumstick chucked into a deep fat fryer with the basket on top, so the bottom side is left to burn for half an hour at 200 degrees. In all honesty the chicken is what lead me to write this review. Dry, burnt, flavourless, greasy pucks of chicken carcass. Yum. I also ordered the large donner meat and chips. First off; it is not by a long shot a large portion. Garlic sauce was watery and very sparse. For some reason they decided to put mozzarella on the chips also… my least favourite cheese. It was gelatinous and not a welcome addition to the salty greasy kebab meat and soggy chips I was presented with for £7. My girlfriend ordered a pizza. Which she rated a 4/10 as it was greasy and bland. She did however on a lighter note say her cheesy chips were nice. So I guess there’s at least one positive nearly £30 later. Anyway… moral of the story is, don’t do it. Order from somewhere else that will value your custom and not have the audacity to send/serve you food anywhere near the standard that the staff of Ali’s alcove believe to be acceptable. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Please don’t waste your money. I Didn’t even bother ringing… I don’t want a refund. I just want people to never eat here again so it gets shut down. Establishments such as this don’t deserve to serve food the public.

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