For great Turkish food you normally head to the suburbs… but Yosma in Baker Street is the exception
Yosma, 50 Baker Street, London W1U 7BT (020 3019 6282).
Meal for two, including drinks and service: £80
Through no fault of its own, Yosma may well have to fight the inverse snobbery of Londoners. 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. We go to Green Lanes in far north London. That’s the heart of the Turkish community, ergo that’s where the good stuff is. It’s the food of the scuffed inner suburbs, never the centre.
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