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Vicky's Natural Kitchen

Deli · HealthyMain Street & Town Centre£

A Healthy restaurant in Main Street & Town Centre with too few reviews to rank — 5 so far, averaging 4.8 on Tripadvisor.

Gibraltar Index

4.6 / 5

Tripadvisor4.85

Google4.914

A weighted blend of both, not an average. How this works

Ratings read 6 September 2026.

Our review

Vicky's Natural Kitchen is a chef-led healthy deli and caterer on Engineer Lane, just off Main Street, scoring 4.8 on Tripadvisor from 5 reviews and 4.9 on Google from 14, for an Index of 4.60. We re-read the reviews on 6 September 2026. Only 14 reviews carry text, the newest is from April 2026 and the newest on Tripadvisor from October 2023, so this is a warm but dated picture.

What the reviews describe is less a cafe than a food operation with several faces. The most recent, from April 2026, is a wedding: canapes and paella that guests kept talking about, beautifully presented, with servers who went above and beyond. Before that a film crew ate Vicky's catering every day for a month in 2023, from Moroccan to Continental menus, and a teacher brought a group of students for a paella class with Chef Vicky and Chef Danny.

The deli side is praised in the same terms every time: a fresh, daily-changing menu of exciting healthy dishes and desserts designed around allergies, diabetes and vegan or vegetarian diets, from a small premises where a German reviewer found both takeaway and a place to eat, and another mentions eating in upstairs. A dine-in dinner evening in 2021 and a North Indian cookery night also appear.

There is no negative review in the set, which is rare, but there is also very little that is recent about the day-to-day deli: two of the five Tripadvisor reviews are the same text posted twice in 2019, and nothing since 2021 describes an ordinary lunch. Fourteen reviews across seven years is a thin base.

Come for a healthy lunch that caters properly for restricted diets, or for catering and cookery classes, where the praise is warmest and most recent; expect a small takeaway-led premises rather than a restaurant. Nobody from Gibraltar Index has eaten here; this write-up is from the reviews, all of them glowing and most of them old.

Written from the Tripadvisor reviews and both platforms' scores on 6 September 2026, not from a meal we ate — nobody from Gibraltar Index has eaten here. We show the Google rating but have not yet read Google's reviews for the write-up. The recurring themes it draws on are below.

What reviewers consistently say

Our summary of recurring themes across the 14 most recent reviews, written in our own words and read on 6 September 2026. Recent reviews from both platforms are quoted, with attribution, further down.

Catering is the most recent and warmest praise: a 2026 wedding's canapes and paella, a film crew fed for a month.
A daily-changing healthy menu built around allergies, diabetes and vegan diets.
Cookery classes with Chef Vicky and Chef Danny, and a dine-in dinner evening, widen what it does.
Small premises, takeaway-led, with somewhere to eat upstairs.
No negative review at all, but nothing about an ordinary lunch since 2021.

What it gets right

Healthy food that caters seriously for restricted diets
Catering and classes praised in detail

What it gets wrong

Few reviews, and no ordinary lunch reviewed since 2021
Two Tripadvisor reviews are the same text posted twice

How it compares

It holds 4.8 out of 5 on Tripadvisor from 5 reviews — well above the Gibraltar median of 4.1 across 106 restaurants with enough reviews to rank, and on only a handful of reviews, so treat it as indicative.

It sits at the budget end of Gibraltar's range.

How the Gibraltar Index Score is built

It is not an average of the two. Each source is weighted by how many reviews it carries, then pulled toward the Gibraltar average so a high score from a handful of reviews cannot outrank a strong score from thousands. Vicky's Natural Kitchen scores 4.8 from 5 on Tripadvisor and 4.9 from 14 on Google, which the model blends to 4.6.

We read the 14 most recent Tripadvisor reviews and summarised what recurs, in our own words; the reviews we drew on are quoted below, attributed to their authors. The Tripadvisor and Google scores are each shown 1:1 as those platforms publish them; the Index Score is ours and the formula is above. Nobody from Gibraltar Index has eaten here, so nothing is a first-hand verdict.

Recent reviews

Shown from each platform, attributed to the reviewer. We don't edit them — read the full set at source.

Tripadvisor★★★★★4.8· 5

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2023-10-12
Great fun!
North Indian cookery evening. Great fun spending the evening with Vicky and several locals cooking together and learning about life in Gibraltar.more →
melaniehill50 · via Tripadvisor
2023-08-04
Great meals for film crew in Gibraltar
We had Vicky's Natural Kitchen prepare all of our catering for the month of July during the filming of our movie "IN TENEBRAS: INTO THE DARKNESS" in Gibraltar. The entire cast and crew ate healthy and nutritious balanced meals everyday and it was always a great experience, having everything from Moroccan to Continental menus. A real treatmore →
goldp498 · via Tripadvisor
2021-12-13
Wow. Something different for lunch!
Jus a short walk from main street and you will find Vicki's with some fab food for lunch. Different exciting things with heavy accent on healthy lifestyle and living. Small premises. take away only. Efficient and friendly service. A great find.more →
Kingpaul100 · via Tripadvisor
2019-08-07
Good Food, Good Mood 😁
Who said you have to give up on exciting flavours, for the sake of a healthy diet? Vicky’s Natural Kitchen not only serves you the most delicious and stylish compilations, but also does so in the most wholesome way possible! This friendly place has a fresh, daily changing menu offering a wide range of healthy dishes as well as an array ofmore →
michellejolivera · via Tripadvisor
2019-02-13
Good Food, Good Mood :)
Who said you have to give up on exciting flavour for the sake of a healthy diet? Vicky's Natural Kitchen not only serves you the most delicious and stylish compilations, but also does so in the most wholesome way possible! This friendly place has a fresh, daily changing menu, offering a wide range of healthy dishes as well as an array of more →
michelleolivera · via Tripadvisor

Google★★★★★4.9· 14

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2026-04-30
Vicky did the catering for our wedding, we had canapés and paella and everyone was talking about how amazing the food was! Everything was also presented so beautifully. The serves were also absolutely amazing going above and beyond to make our day special. I couldn’t have asked for a better service and would recommend them time and time amore →
Olivia Scotton Art · via Google
2023-06-15
Brought my group of students for a paella class, Chef Vicky and Chef Danny are brilliant teachers! Cannot recommend them enough!! Absolutely amazing!more →
Leah Cariño · via Google
2022-10-07
A really professional and accommodating organisation. Highly recommended.more →
Lorna Evans · via Google
2021-05-28
Excellentmore →
John Patrick Pitaluga · via Google
2021-03-06
Me encantómore →
Nereyda Fonseca vega · via Google

Reviews are the opinions of their authors, reproduced from Tripadvisor and Google with attribution and a link to the original. Vicky's Natural Kitchen did not provide them and Gibraltar Index did not solicit or edit them.