Dish · 5 kitchens in 2 cities
Adana kebab
Minced lamb and chilli pressed onto a wide skewer and grilled over charcoal.
Nobody paid to be here. Each kitchen is described from its own menu where it publishes one, unranked, so each note says how that kitchen makes it.
In London
Adana kebab
Mangal 1 · Dalston · ~£25 pp
Minced lamb and chilli on a wide skewer, grilled over charcoal
Adana, hand-minced lamb and chilli pressed onto a wide skewer, off the same coals. To pass round beside the chops.
Adana kebab
Enfes Ocakbaşı · Harringay · ~£22 pp
Adana, hand-minced lamb and chilli pressed onto a wide skewer, over charcoal, with flatbread and onions. The first skewer to the table.
This version: The Green Lanes grill-house Adana, with lamb liver too.
Pick it if: You're on Green Lanes for a grill supper. No website, so the card is unchecked, and it's walk-in.
Adana
Fez Mangal · Notting Hill · ~£28 pp
Adana, minced lamb with herbs pressed onto a skewer and grilled over charcoal. The first skewer, with flatbread.
This version: The Ladbroke Grove grill's Adana, with lamb chops.
Pick it if: You're in west London and want a charcoal grill; it gets busy in the evening.
In Istanbul
Adana kebap
Payyar Ocakbaşı · Kalamış · ~₺1200 pp
Adana kebap, minced lamb pressed onto a wide skewer and grilled over the same fire. To share beside the lamb tenderloin.
Adana kebap
Dede Ahmet Kebap · Üsküdar · ~₺900 pp
Hand-minced lamb on a wide skewer, grilled
Adana kebap, lamb minced by hand with the zırh, the crescent knife, pressed onto the skewer and cooked over the fire. With a shepherd's salad, piyaz, bean salad, and strained yogurt: what we'd take the ferry for.