Favourite kebab

It's one thing I really miss about Manchester, there were several places I could get a good kebab. That and steak and kidney pudding at the chippy, another thing Cumbria seems not to have heard of.

Probably my favourite was the mixed kebab from Paradise in Longsight, doner, lamb tikka, chicken tikka and seekh all served on a naan bread with salad, sauce and pickled chillis, heaven!
 
Before mucky kebab houses were the favoured haunts of post-pub sustenance, there was a place in Bradford called Pie Herbert's. Pie shop by day, you know pork pies, pasties, cheese & onion, and the like; by night, the same, warmed as well as all manner of offals: tripe, tongue, liver, kidney, with or without bread, bowls of with a thick gravy and sticky white bread to mop up.

Champion!

Haha! I've just been looking for a picture, which of course there are none given that it was before a time when people photographed anything and everything, but I did find a gem of a memory: at night, his cats used to sleep on trays in the glass counters, keeping warm :D
 
jaycey said:
Stoke Newington Road is the epicentre of the Ockabasi!
Pretty sure I've eat at the Mangal, it's in a little side street if my memory serves me right?
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Yes indeed. Just inside Arcola St on the right. Depending when you visited, they've expanded next door into the old Fenerbahce social club. You can still sit and watch the man twiddle his skewers over the charcoal pit though. A fantastic & cheap meal. I drive 70 miles each way on a Sunday sometimes to sample their fantastic food. Highly recommended. I first saw it on Rick Stein food heroes programme & good old Rick didn't let me down.
 
There's a fantastic kebab place at St Nicholas Market in Bristol. It's ran by blokes who are either Iraqi or Kurdish and often has big queues as it's so good.

They have their own bread oven so you freshly baked flatbreads (roti). My mouth is watering thinking about it!
 
moodymick said:
If you're gonna have a 'baby's head' - best it be Hollands....
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That makes me hungry just looking at it! Hollands are the best, although there was a chippy in Rochdale that sold home-made puddings that were pretty damn good. The chippys up here get their pies from Hollands, but sadly no baby's heads. I've resorted to buying them from the supermarket, steaming them at home and just buying chips and curry.

You can get real Cumberland sausage though.
 
chris.hale said:
That makes me hungry just looking at it! Hollands are the best, although there was a chippy in Rochdale that sold home-made puddings that were pretty damn good. The chippys up here get their pies from Hollands, but sadly no baby's heads. I've resorted to buying them from the supermarket, steaming them at home and just buying chips and curry.

You can get real Cumberland sausage though.
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As a lad from Accrington, Baxenden (home of Hollands) is in the Corporation so it was always homegrown stuff to me when I still lived there.

Cumbria? They talk funny there. I lived and worked in Workington for 4 months in the mid 80's for TSB. Actually, I quite liked it, people were friendly - plus 'Cockermouth' always makes my inner child snigger.
 
LeeBot said:
Nothing wrong with a sober kebab if you can find a good kebab place. Grilled meat, plenty of fresh raw veg piled on top and a nice kick of chilli - stuff so long as you can find a good place.

My "Get shitfaced and grab a greasy doner on the way home" days are behind me but there were quite a few times that Saturday night leftover kebab became Sunday morning breakfast. And it always hit the spot!
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Exactly this/

There is a brilliant Turkish one near me. Nice grilled pieces of lamb and chicken with fresh cut salad. Lovely.

Even when we have been out for a few drinks and stop off on the way home I am always the one that holds everyone up so I can get mine freshly cooked.

Doner meat is alright but kebab houses do offer lots of freshly cooked shish and shasliks
 
moodymick said:
Cumbria? They talk funny there. I lived and worked in Workington for 4 months in the mid 80's for TSB. Actually, I quite liked it, people were friendly - plus 'Cockermouth' always makes my inner child snigger.
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They do talk funny here, there's a whole dialect to get to grips with. I live in Silloth, just up from Workington, been here about 7 years now, it's a lovely place but there are things I miss, such as good takeaways, street lights and the metric system.
 
chris.hale said:
They do talk funny here, there's a whole dialect to get to grips with. I live in Silloth, just up from Workington, been here about 7 years now, it's a lovely place but there are things I miss, such as good takeaways, street lights and the metric system.
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I seem to remember it as being a bit sing-song, soft Geordie, but as I said before, nice people I could live there.
 
Yeah, when I met my wife my first thought was that the accent was similar to Geordie but softer. It's a whole different pace of life to Manchester, there's much more of a community here and and the people are friendlier. It's also nice having the beach and the countryside on my doorstep.
 
chris.hale said:
It's one thing I really miss about Manchester, there were several places I could get a good kebab. That and steak and kidney pudding at the chippy, another thing Cumbria seems not to have heard of.
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To be fair, Manchester is the only place that has heard of those ;) A strange thing about oop north coming from down south is that the chippies all close by 8 pm -- wot no after hours chips?!
 
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