Exceline is an East African restaurant and catering specialist at 527-529 High Road Leytonstone. The welcoming dining room is best known for Ugandan home cooking and a generous rotating buffet, bringing together meat, vegetables, rice, matooke and freshly prepared chapatti in a format that encourages groups to taste several dishes.
Starters include vegetable or beef samosas and gently spiced chicken wings. Whole tilapia is served with shamba sauce and salad, while charcoal grilled goat muchomo offers a smoky alternative. The sharing buffet combines pilau rice, chapatti, matooke or sweet potato, plantain, beef stew, chicken and spinach.
Main courses move from East African goat and chicken curries to beef stew, oxtail, cow foot and spicy offal. Tilapia can be cooked in a creamy yoghurt sauce with herbs and spring onion, and katogo combines matooke with offal in a comforting stew. Daily buffet changes keep the selection connected to seasonal availability and the kitchen’s preparation.
Vegetarian choices include Rosecoco beans in tomato sauce, spinach with peanut sauce, cow peas with cabbage and a mixed vegetable curry. Pilau, jollof and coconut rice sit alongside chapatti, ugali, cassava, yams, plantain and sweet potato, while Ugandan Waragi and East African beer provide traditional drinks to accompany a substantial meal.
Address: 527-529 High Road Leytonstone, Leytonstone, London E11 4PB, United Kingdom
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