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...

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...

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

Mem & Laz's founding father Memet is expanding his property along Theberton Street, and soon the lovely, throbbing sea cabin that is Mem & Laz - hung with...

Think 'Ottoman palace' and Istanbul's Topkapı Sarayı; might spring to mind, not Camden High Street, whose most palatial building is the unappetising Koko...

Come on Saturday night to witness this place in full swing, behind the enticing window display of dolmas and baklava. There's a queue for tables. Cynics...

Fieldgate Street is famous around these parts for the presence of Tayyabs, an outlandishly busy Pakistani eaterie that always seems to have a queue of...

The tongue-twister of a name refers to Antep, a town in south-eastern Anatolia, near the Turkish border with Syria; 'Antepliler' means someone from that...

Smart yet relaxed, Kazan is a fine example of how a restaurant can showcase Turkish cuisine without being either a prosaic ocakbasi or an opulent Ottoman...

In business for more than 20 years, Mangal II is the unflagging granddaddy of ocakbasi - with its very own celebrity diners-in-residence, Gilbert & George,...