"You might know Mangal 1 from an unruly birthday party, where grilled kebabs and swigs of beers from the offy were taken in tandem. Or you might know it from last weekend, when you wandered off from Kingsland Road in search of a nourishing doner wrap. This is Dalston’s original Turkish ocakbaşı restaurant and it’s still an essential go-to, whether for melt-in-your-mouth lamb sweetbreads or a blowout BYOB dinner." - rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, jake missing