Turkish restaurants in London
13 places
Antepliler
££Green Lanes cooking from Gaziantep, with a baklava counter that is the reason half the customers are there.
Durak Tantuni
£Tantuni - finely chopped beef griddled and rolled in flatbread - which almost nowhere else in London serves.
Enfes Ocakbaşı
££A brightly lit Green Lanes canteen with nothing to look at but the grill, which is the entire point - adana, shish, liver and chops, all cooked properly.
FM Mangal
££South London's answer to Green Lanes - charcoal, lahmacun and no ceremony whatsoever.
Gökyüzü
££An enormous Green Lanes grill house where the mixed kebab arrives on a platter built for four and feeds six.
Ishtar
£££A long-running Marylebone Turkish room with a mezze list built for a table that wants to stay put.
Kiez Kebab
££Berlin döner rather than London kebab - three options only, served in pide bread rather than wrapped, on Golborne Road.
Kismet
£££A meyhane in the style of Istanbul and north Cyprus, upstairs at The Globe - in the building used as Bridget Jones's flat in the films.
Köfteci Metin
£Köfte and very little else, which is exactly why it is worth the trip up Green Lanes.
Le Bab
££Kebabs rebuilt with restaurant technique - the format is familiar and almost nothing else about it is.
Lokal
£££Modern Turkish cooking from the Fred Bakery and Faros team, with counter dining and a cocktail bar alongside 110 covers.
Mangal 2
£££The Dirik brothers took over their father's Dalston ocakbaşı and turned it into one of the most inventive kitchens in London without moving the grill.
The Mantl
££££Turkish cooking taken to Knightsbridge prices, themed around a family hearth - tradition and innovation on the same plate.