"Mangal 1’s main dining room is perma-heaving, often with birthday groups and life-long friends cracking open big bottles of Tyskie, ripping into warm flatbread, and devouring wonderful grilled meats. This is Dalston’s OG ocakbaşı—it opened in the ‘90s and feels like it’s been this way since day one. At this legendary BYOB Turkish institution, one bottle of off licence plonk can easily turn into three, and the high-octane atmosphere and juicy kofte never fail to deliver." - jake missing, daisy meager, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley