I started out thinking I’d be writing about Mayfair and next-to-it Fordsburg, about the Turkish places I knew and am revisiting, especially. Then I realised my Turkish breakfast place that was in Braamfontein has moved to Greenside. Oh and while there, I thought I’d visit a newish place that opened just before Covid, in the Emmarentia part of Greenside, to check out their pide bread, something of a favourite of mine. I’ve even made it, rather desperately, at times.
Pide is a boat-shaped piece of olive-oily flatbread dough. The inside of the boat is typically filled with ground lamb mixed with fried onion and garlic, green pepper bits, tomato bits, cumin, paprika and Turkish pepper, sometimes an egg on the surface. The pastry is brushed with olive oil again before cooking, so it has a special shine and texture after baking. It’s really pronounced
A kebab fast food outlet in west Belfast has been fined £800 at the city s magistrates court for food hygiene offences.
The prosecution was taken by Belfast City Council against the operator of the Turkish Kebab and Pizza House take-away on the Andersonstown Road, following a routine hygiene inspection of the premises in March 2019.
During inspections, environmental health officers found that the premises, including equipment, was not kept clean.
They found the business wasn t constructed in a way to permit good food hygiene practices, including protection against contamination of pests.
The restaurant was given a rating of just one under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, meaning that major improvement is necessary. The council confirmed to the court that conditions have now improved to their satisfaction and that the premises now has a rating of three.