Amazing taste, beautiful quality meat! We live far, I’m so sad there’s no delivery but worth the journey!!
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The only way I can describe Crystal on the Holloway Road is as the assimilation of a Turkish kebab shop into an English workmen's cafe - or visa versa.
It provides cheap but sizeable meals from stews and pides to grills, served up on typical checked cafe tables with a cup of strong coffee.
For about £6 you can have a slap-up meal and the food is very good. Cooked on charcoal the tender lamb grills, the adana kebabs and the iskenders are as good if not better than many more expensive restaurants. Try a plate of shredded lamb in yoghurt sauce with chips, salad and chilli - my favourite. And start with the paca soup, the best lamb soup I've tasted in London.
The lahmacuns are also first rate, and although I've not eaten pide there it wouldn't surprise me if they do that well too. All meals come with fresh salad and newly baked Turkish bread.
Crystal is open quite late and has pretty steady traffic all day and a good buzzy atmosphere, with students from the uni down the road and plenty of local residents dining there. The staff too are polite and usually quick to serve the tables, despite having a healthy takeaway business as their main focus.
Highly recommended.
Very tasty food, big portions and good service. I have been there a few times and it's always been great.
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