Mangal II

Mangal II is the second restaurant the Dirik family opened on Stoke Newington Road in 1994, six years after Ali Dirik founded the original Mangal Ocakbaşı round the corner on Arcola Street. Sons Ferhat and Sertaç ran the kitchen through the 2010s — Sertaç had cheffed at Noma's sister 108 in Copenhagen — and quietly turned the room into something more ambitious than diaspora ocakbaşı: blue-and-white paint, sans-serif logo, sourdough lavash, Aegean wine list. Sertaç stepped back from the day-to-day in 2024; the kitchen is now Ferhat-led. The defining Turkish address in London — the one the audience takes a visiting İstanbullu to without apology.