Restaurant Review: Mandira for a yogurt inspired meal

I was walking through the Southbank and Covent Garden recently, and I was starving. Really really starving. But because I'm the pickiest eater in the world sometimes, I must have spent an hour walking around and looking for something to eat before stumbling into Mandira.

Mandira is a new shop in Covent Garden, Turkish-owned, that makes food around the concept of yogurt bowls. They do sweet and savoury yogurt bowls, with various fruit and food combinations. Mine in the above picture is the vine leaves + green grapes savoury bowl. I also added on simit chips, which are slices of Turkish simit bagels that are oven-baked to a crisp.

It was delicious, and exactly what I was looking for. All the ingredients were fresh, the yogurt sourced from a local farm, and it all made for a delicious meal. The grape vine leaves were just as tasty as any you'd order in a restaurant. The simit chips provided the perfect crispy accompaniment to my yogurt bowl.

They have limited seating in the store, so they are mostly catering to the takeaway crowd, but what a refreshing change from the usual boring sandwich shops. Prices are also very reasonable. Finally, some Mediterranean food you can quickly grab and go with in Central London!

Address: 78B Long Acre Street, Covent Garden, WC2E 9NG