Gokyuzu Walthamstow

Looking for the finest Turkish Restaurant London has to offer? Try Gokyuzu Restaurant in Walthamstow for authentic flavours from the Mediterranean

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Enjoy the authentic flavours of Turkey and the Mediterranean in the heart of food is a meat-lover’s dream and our charcoal grill helps us to produce the most succulent, beautifully flavoured kebabs this side of the Mediterranean.

with turned up boat-like crusts, our most popular is Kuşbaşılı Pide (Turkish pizza with diced lamb and peppers) while Kaşarlı Pide is topped with mozzarella, peppers, olives and a fried egg and is often favoured by those looking for a vegetarian option.

Our menu currently boasts nine variations of this Turkish delight and all of them are bursting with distinctive flavour.

It’s not just Turkish pizza for vegetarian diners, either – those who prefer non-meat options won’t be disappointed.

And from our freshly baked Turkish bread* to our complimentary Turkish tea (we always offer the first cup for free, by way of a traditional welcome), you won’t find a more authentically Turkish restaurant in London.

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But what makes this part of Green Lanes a whole lot more exciting, for those in search of a good lunch, at least, is that the area has a large Turkish (and Kurdish) population.

Their pide, a Turkish pizza, has rather thicker dough, but is every bit as assured.

Then the Big Daddy of the main dishes, the broad-shouldered, gentle-natured yogurtlu kuzu sis: fat chunks of beautifully grilled lamb, lolling on a soused bread bed, and doused with lashings of yoghurt-drenched tomato sauce.

Huge charcoal grill, lahmacun, pide and some good stews, too.

Nothing revolutionary here, just good Turkish food – all the regular dishes, cooked well.

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We know where to go for good, cheap Turkish food; for rough-edged dishes prepared by stocky men with moustaches who cook sitting down, hunched over the smoking mangal grill like this is the only thing they’ve ever done.

I’ve written before about my love for this food, explored during repeated summer trips to Turkey: about my pilgrimages to the basic canteens by the bus station in Fethiye, where overpowered air conditioning belches vapour and it’s so cheap it feels like they’re paying you to bury your face in plates of perfect lamb doner; about nights lost tending the DIY barbecues of Cinbal restaurant just outside the ghost village of Kayaköy, where smoke rises towards the vine-clad open roof and the air smells of rendering lamb fat.

In a culinary culture that steers clear of the pig, beef makes a good stand-in, first in a grilled sausage, served hot off the grill and sultry with cumin.

At the end we drink thimbles of hot, sweet Turkish coffee with the thickness of Brent Crude, and give thanks for our good fortune.

■ There are so many great north London Turkish restaurants that choosing one to spotlight is tricky, but I’ve gone for Mangal 2 on Stoke Newington Road.

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Large, utilitarian – and the gobsmacking go-to venue for prodigious portions of excellent cooking in London’s main Turkish neighbourhood.

If our informal poll of passers-by on Green Lanes is anything to go by, Gökyüzü is the go-to place for Turkish food in London’s main Turkish neighbourhood.

This large, utilitarian restaurant (it doubled in size some years ago) is consistently the busiest place on the strip.

We were almost sated after demolishing a basket of bread cooked in the wood-fired oven and a huge ‘small’ mixed meze dish – highlights being a sprightly kısır loaded with mint and spring onion, a haydari rich with dill, and a fresh-tasting soslu patlıcan (grilled aubergine with tomato sauce).

Sarma tavuk beyti featured no less than 15 large pieces of spicy minced chicken wrapped in lavash bread, slathered in tomato sauce and served with yoghurt and pilaf rice.