YEMANES'
Falafel restaurant · Peckham ·
Freshly made North African wraps with homemade sauces and dips
Freshly made North African wraps with homemade sauces and dips
"A family-run North African stall just off Rye Lane, Yemanes’ specialises in speedy and deeply satisfying wraps. The fillings—think falafel, fresh salad, and tender lamb shawarma—are great, but it’s the wraps themselves that really make this place a must-try lunch spot. They cook each one fresh for every customer, and it’s delightfully chewy and thick. If there’s a wait, it’s worth it. If you’re really feeling bold, you can fight it out for one of their few little pavement tables." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager, riaz phillips
"The owners of this much-loved Peckham street stand put their own Algerian spin on the shawarma wrap. There’s a choice of chicken or lamb, but the latter is the winner. It isn’t cooked on a spit, but rather on a plancha, before being rolled up in a Yemanes flatbread (also cooked on a plancha) with a red kidney bean spread; fresh pepper hummus; stewed lentils; feta and olive oil cream; and chilli sauce. It may feel a little idiosyncratic, but it is a very satisfying wrap with the right level of spicing, heat and contrast. Watching the bread being rolled out and cooked moments before eating it certainly adds to the experience." - Joel Hart
"Sometimes queues are a sign that a place is very good and sometimes a queue is just a sign that you did some drunk online shopping and now need to wait 45 minutes for the Zara returns desk. In the case of Yemanes', it’s definitely the former. A family-run North African stall just off Rye Lane, they specialise in speedy and deeply satisfying wraps. The fillings—think falafel, fresh salad, and tender lamb shawarma—are great, but it’s the wraps themselves that really make this place a must-try lunch spot. They cook each wrap fresh for every customer and it’s delightfully chewy and thick. Thanks to their £6 price tag, Yemanes' is permanently busy at all hours, but the wait is worth it, and if you’re really feeling bold you can fight it out for one of their few little pavement tables." - Heidi Lauth Beasley
"Still affectionately known as Salas’ after its original co-owner Salah Yaiche, this takeaway wrap van on Parkstone Road is almost as beloved in these ends as the Morley’s opposite. Now known officially as Yemane’s, for Yemane Berhe who runs it, it specialises in North African wraps, with a deceptively simple menu of lamb or chicken shawarma, spiced halloumi, kofte or falafel. Deceptive because terse descriptions don’t reveal that the spiced halloumi is gloriously breaded and deep fried, so it’s soft, gooey and crunchy, or that every wrap comes with a choice of six homemade dips, from aubergine to sun dried tomato, making each order a combinatorics problem. By mixing and matching proteins and sauces, it would be possible to eat here every day of the year without eating the same wrap twice. (Spiced halloumi + chicken shawarma + aubergine and chilli sauce.)" - Jonathan Nunn
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