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Afghan Kitchen
This tiny gem with seating on the 1st floor serves up some of Islington's best-value and interesting cuisine: traditional Afghan dishes such as qurma suhzi gosht (lamb cooked with spinach) and qurma e mahi (fish stew) alongside a large vegetarian selection including borani kado (pumpkin with yogurt) and moong dall (lentil dhal).
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Ali Baba
Looking more like a slightly chaotic laundry than somewhere to eat, this tiny Egyptian double take is buried in between terraced houses in residential Marylebone - a most unlikely place to find such good (for the price) hummus, falafel and kebabs. You can takeaway or sit in a tiny room and watch Arab TV.
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Gallipoli
A popular, cheek-by-jowl restaurant with fusty Turkish decorations and acceptable food (for its location), including everything from meze to spicy vegetarian moussaka.
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Jakob's
This charismatic Armenian-owned restaurant serves delicious and wholesome (and sometimes organic) salads, vegetarian lasagne, filo pie, falafel and kebabs that you choose at the counter after having laid claim to a table in the back. A plate of three/four choices is around £7 /9.50. Desserts are very good.
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Levantine
Levantine is an atmospheric Thousand and One Nights -themed restaurant (lots of red velvet cushions and brassy stuff) where the set menus (including a vegetarian one) are the best value. The fare is well prepared and delicious, including wonderful renditions of Lebanese staples such as tahini, hummus and muhammarah (mixed nuts crushed with red pepper) as well as more complex grills. The inevitable belly dancer makes an appearance at weekends.
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Mangal Ocakbasi
Mangal is the quintessential Turkish ocakbasi (open hooded grill) restaurant: cramped and smoky and serving superb meze, grilled lamb chops, quail and lahmacun , Turkish 'pizza' topped with minced meat, onions and peppers. It's been here for almost 20 years and is London's worst-kept secret.
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