Tas Firin London

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Turkish in London - Bethnal Green
160 Bethnal Green Road , Bethnal Green, London, E2 6DG
+44 (0) 20 7729 6446

Tas Firin is a Turkish restaurant serving stews, basic grills and Turkish pizza.

Tags: awesome, bethnal green, cuisine: turkish, grilled kebabs, meze, pizza, shoreditch, takeaway, tapas, turkish

Tas Firin London Reviews

Haje Jan K.

15 reviews

Triumph for tummy, toes, and ticker - The frost is forming growing crystals of ice on the pavements of east London. Small clouds puff out of people walking along the streets as if they were tiny, human-powered steam locomotives. One by one, wrapping themselves warmer into their layers of Gore Tex, casting furtive yet flirtatious glances through the narrow slit between scarf and woolly hat, the multicultural mish-mash of people are scurrying along to implement their respective centrally heated escape plans.

Sure, it can be a cold and unhospitable world out there – and there’s nothing quite as draining of joie de vivre as Bethnal Green on a cold winter night. Which is where Tas Firin comes in. From the moment you open the door, and see the billows of heat and steam escape, reaching for the icy winter sky above, you realise that this is a different kind of restaurant. From the bar in the corner which made me think that perhaps Tas Firin used to be a Jamaican joint before they took the place over; it’s essentially one of those beach huts you find on Caribbean beaches, where they’ll serve you a mean Coconut Water and Rum along with a 20-minute tirade about the Meaning of Life.

The reason why Tas Firin is such a warm place is obvious; It’s a Turkish barbecue restaurant. How do you know that? Because right there, in the restaurant, next to the bar, sits a friendly young man, smiling and humming to himself, in front of the biggest in-door barbecue you’ll have ever seen, complete with an extractor fan the size of a small lorry hovering above the glowing charcoal.

The food can hardly be described as magnificent, but it’s good nonetheless. The menu is varied and tasty – from various Meze (think tapas but less Iberian), Pide (think pizza, but less round) and a long list of options for traditional Kebabs (think take-away kebab but less food poisoning, and more tasty) – all from the charcoal barbecue, which adds a dimension of awesome to the proceedings.

The place is fully licenced, so you can get some tipple in if you want, and prices aren't at all too bad - calculate around £20 per person including starters and drinks, and you'll have enough change left over for a couple of bags of M&Ms at the end of the night.

Tas Firin has a way of putting you on the table with adjoining parties, with a constant trickle of lively conversation waving throughout the small restaurant like ripples through a pond. The food will fill and warm your stomach, the room will warm the icicles which for the occasion pass for fingers, and the conversation will warm your soul.

And once you’re all warm and full of life again, Brick Lane is just around the corner – pile into the nearest bar and finish off what can’t possibly end up as anything but a memorable evening. 16-03-09

Tags: awesome, bethnal green, cuisine: turkish, grilled kebabs, meze, pide, pizza, shoreditch, tapas, warm

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