Favourite kebab

Best take away is Best Turkish http://www.thebestturkishkebab.com Stoke Newington Road.
When you visit, you realise why it's called "Best"
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When I'm out that way, which sadly, isn't that often, these days, :( I usually pop in there on the way home and grab a large chicken Shish, with extra onions and mayo sauce. :)
Certainly fixes me up for the ride on the "cattle truck", AKA Overground to Stratford. Not to mention it makes all the other poor beggars salivate when I sit there, chomping merrily on my kebab (well, I can't let it go cold, can I? :p ) and listening to Tanya Stephens through my beats :D
 
One for the Bradford guys ... Shawarma on Manningham Lane, just on from Sovereign, sort of diagonal opposite Toys R Us. Bloomin' marvellous kebabs:

Lamb or chicken or both
Bread pocket (like pitta), naan or chips
Salad ... good salad
£3

Or you can have the lot on a pizza or a sort of naan pizza.

Marvellous!
 
Place? Beirut restaurant in Edinburgh. Damn they do a mean chicken shwarma. Does it count as a kebab? I don't know but when I think of a really good kebab I tend to seek out a good Lebanese place over a typical kebab joint.

As for a typical kebab dish: As much as I like a proper shish, I'm always slightly disappointed if I don't have a lamb doner. There's an art to it though. I have to remove 80% of the salad mountain with a fork (including the mutated giant chilli) and eat a lot of the meat beforehand. I can handle it sober but at no point can my fingers touch the meat. I have to create a neat wrap with the pitta before I can pick it up. If there's even a slight rip in the pitta I have to eat with a knife and fork. Otherwise the stink of doner seeps into your fingers and it takes approximately 2 days to disappear. No amount of scrubbing can speed up the process :D
 
Rupeyal. It's in a petrol station in Tunstall. A full tank and a large donor please. Great kebab. Can't get a really good kebab in torbay though or a curry for that matter. Most people down here haven't heard of a pudding either. When you do find one and order it with chips and gravy they wrap it all separate and put the gravy in a pot. Very strange
 
I've not had a kebab in ages but when I do it's only lamb shish with a "bit" of cucumber, lettuce + chili sauce only.

Can't stand doner or the sopping wet mess you get left with when they pile on wet salad items.
 
Ah... memories of Liverpool in 2002, when Diego Forlan netted twice for United at Anfield. Later that night, 10-15 pints down the hatch, I sat on a kerb eating the best kebab ever. No clue of the place I bought it though.
 
I know it happens because I see the evidence on the pavements the next day - people actually eat these things! I fail utterly to understand why! I'm anything but a health food freak but these things are beyond the pale. Indigestion, food poisoning and bowel cancer just waiting to happen. Reasonably priced, though.
Actually they are quite healthy Carl. As long as you opt for salad and not a lamb doner. Reputable takeouts obviously
 
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!
Curry mile must have had a few?
 
Ah... memories of Liverpool in 2002, when Diego Forlan netted twice for United at Anfield. Later that night, 10-15 pints down the hatch, I sat on a kerb eating the best kebab ever. No clue of the place I bought it though.

Back then they used to do a cracking doner at a chippy near Lime St Station next door to the Crown Hotel. Really fresh salad and the meat was moist without being fatty or greasy so the pitta bread didn't get mushy. It's changed hands I think as it was nowhere near as good the last couple of times but it was a regular part of a night out - or day out if I was at Everton or Mathew St Festival.
 
Just off Boar Lane in Leeds, a small sit down place - lamb donner, crunchy salad, chili sauce, lemon juice and yoghurt. Heavenly.

This was 30 years ago though.
 
Last night I went out, had a few drinks and didn't get a chance to eat til gone midnight, so stopped off at my local kebab shop, they do the best kebabs ever, though I normally get a 1/2 or 1/4 pounder with chips I fancied a chicken doner, and it was amazing! Had a lamb doner before and that was decent, but this chicken one hit the spot bang on!

What's your favourite kebab lads?
Jalfrezi deluxe without a doubt.Many ingredients (maybe not,but tastes nice lol),a bit of a kick to it & as heavy as a house brick.I don't eat the following day until after dinner time if I have one of these for tea.Problem is,is that I love spicy food but my stomach doesn't..lol
 
Don't usually eat them but by shear coincidence we got a JustEat last night purely because it was 19:30 when we finally got in and we couldn't be arsed cooking.

Just your basic donor meat on naan, salad no sauce. Used a new place, tasty meat and it was sliced more like pulled pork.

Kebabs always give and is the only food that gives me hiccups. Over 30mins last night, I was fucked!
 
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Occasionally buy a Scottish delicacy called a munchie box if we can't be bothered cooking. It's a 12" pizza box filled with donner, pakora, lamb and chicken tikka, chips, salad, naan, and chicken wings. Totally unhealthy but for £8 it's a ridiculous amount of food. Washed down with irn bru. Lovely.
A take away down here used to do them. Enough for 2 people, unfortunately now off the menu :(
 
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