The Le Bab trio’s late-night kebab shop will open as indoor dining resumes, offering an eclectic menu that plays around with the post-pub staple.
The 20-cover Old Street restaurant and takeaway is next door to a more traditionally-run kebab house - The Best Kebab - and will be open until 5am.
The menu will include the Pepperoni Pork Shawarma, a fusion of pork shawarma and pepperoni pizza involving soppressata, tomato pork jus, mozzarella fondue, basil and parsley.
A Le Bab Dirty Vegan Kebab will also be available, made with Beyond Meat, house pickled cucumber, sweet chilli relish, crispy fries, vegan mayo, sumac, vegan fondue sauce and cress.
A BLACK door, filthy from decades of roadsplash grime, opens directly from the street. On one side of it is a pizza shop; on the other a couple of kebab takeaways, and the downcomer beside it has rusted away at headheight so that when it rains, the water must splurge out onto the pavement. The fanlight above the door is so encrusted with dirt that no light filters into the narrow dark passage behind. The passage leads straight to another doorway which opens to reveal complete blackness. I pull out my phone and turn on the flashlight only to discover that I’m wrapped up in a straggly curtain of thick spiders’ webs. Behind the curtain is gloryhole of junk in an understairs cupboard.
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