I've seen this chain pop up and since I enjoy a decent kebab, I've wanted to pop in and give it a go. My very first doner was in north west Germany and this has set me on a path of enjoying many, many kebabs since. I recently had the best kebab of my life just outside a train station in Germany while waiting for a train to a castle. As you do.
The problem with this particular branch is that it's always crazy busy. I really don't want to take a kebab back to the office. I'm meant to be on a weight loss programme. So I want to eat it in, and there's rarely a table free. I thought I spotted one today and went in, turned out it wasn't free. But a table I didn't see from the outside was.
Then unexpected things started to happen. I was initially told that I could only get a take away, till the staff member also noticed the table and then it was fine. This was because they do table service. I didn't expect that. I ordered the regular doner as a meal, so it came with fries and a drink. It's an unusual set up for a kebab shop - there's a lot of staff, the kitchen can be seen from the seating area but is glassed off from the customers. The kitchen incidentally looks crazy clean for a kebab shop.
So back to the table service. I didn't have to wait long, and the kebab was big. Supposedly I could have gone bigger, but I'm glad I didn't as I couldn't have managed it all. The fries were good, I liked that the soda came in a glass bottle (which they took the cap off at the table after bringing it to me) without a straw. But the kebab was the star. I tried some doner meat (beef rather than the usual lamb) and it was so thin that I probably could have seen through it if I'd held it up to the light. The seasoning was exactly how I remember from that train station kebab in Germany, and was the leanness of it all.
Here comes the revelation - normally for British kebabs I end up picking the contents out of the pita because it never holds together and usually isn't of great quality. But the bread here is astonishingly good. It's crisp in the right places and keeps the fairly moist mixture of meat, salad and sauces intact without going soggy. This isn't the best kebab I've had. But it's a lot closer than Germany, and is close enough that I really don't care. I'd go as far as saying that it's annoyingly good, because I really am trying to look after my waistline and yet I want to eat this over and over again. read more
