healthy lunch
I was up in the East End again yesterday, dropping off the lanterns I had borrowed for my show. While I was there, I was gripped by a nostalgic desire to visit my favourite kebab shop.It is only fair to explain that Hackney has a very large turkish (and near eastern) population, and whilst you can get the minced goop lollipop that everyone knows as a doner kebab, if you know where to go, you can do so much better. My favourite place is called 'Anatolya' and is on Mare Street, I was slightly dismayed to discover that they have moved a couple of doors down from where they used to be, but reassured that all was familiar when I went inside. Same chiller counter with skewers of chicken or lamb, quail, mackeral, kidneys and sweetbreads, and further into the room a low counter with a charcoal fire burning in it.
I wasn't proposing to have a big meal, but rather a delicious snack, always ordered as 'turkish pizza' , this is a thin flatbread about 18" x 12" spread with a thin layer of spicy tomato sauce, swiftly heated over the charcoal, and then filled with a salad selection and a spoonful of chilli sauce. The ends are elegantly tucked in and the whole thing is then rolled up into a sausage and wrapped in paper. One then consumes it by tearing off the paper in a spiral and munching your way down; at the risk of sounding like a food writer; delicious and nutricious, and containing more healthy vegetables than Jamie Oliver. The price of this meal? £1.20, bargain...
Eating in is even better, and it's hard to spend a lot of money. This is not a kebab shop that stays open late, however, so don't expect it to be open at 2.00 in the morning, there's plenty of other places that will be, and many of them will be good, personally I'd hit the 24 hour beigel bakery in Brick Lane, but sometimes only a kebab will do.
posted by Lampy @ 2/21/2006 08:06:00 pm
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