Hidden for more than 20 years down a side street off Stoke Newington Road, this no-frills grill is where London's kebab connoisseurs head for some of the...

At first glance this looks like a takeaway kebab shop, but with the customer side of the counter crammed with five tables and 15 seats. The comparison isn't...

With its jarring mix of neon-yellow, black, white and wood, Yalla Yalla is hardly a place to linger. Tall stools around a communal high table, and an...

Bijou, charming and usually crowded, Yalla Yalla is painted white, its walls decorated in photos of old Beirut. Yellow lamps hang over a takeaway counter...

Bright, fun and full of local workers taking lunch, Comptoir Libanais is part-canteen, part-delicatessen. One wall is lined with shelves containing...

Suggesting that Meze Mangal doesn't look like much from the outside is a pretty generous understatement. Happily, the rather decrepit exterior of this...

Kahve Dünyasi is a huge coffee bar chain in Turkey, with 200 stores. If you imagine Starbucks melted into a mid-range chocolatier, you're on the right...

That Kateh's small room of pretty candlelit tables was fully booked on a Wednesday evening shows it's doing something right. You come here for rich Persian...

Set on one of London's more diverse commercial streets, this enterprise has proven so successful that it now stretches to three separate operations in the...

Local restaurants often have to do that bit more to hang on to customers, and Petek certainly works hard to please a mixed clientele: witness the list of...

It's appropriate that the dominating feature of this single-room ocakbasi is the embossed copper extractor hood at the right-hand end of the counter: the...

Iranians either relish or refuse to have anything to do with Patogh, a kebab joint more akin to one of Tehran's cluttered cafés than its cosmopolitan...

Although new restaurants pop up regularly in Exmouth Market, well-established Moro still has the edge, serving quality Spanish/North African food that is...