The “horrific” queues at this “hectic” East End Pakistani classic are legendary, and no wonder – its “awesome” but “absurdly cheap” lamb chops and curries offer “one of London’s great eating experiences”; “thank God they now take bookings!”; BYO.
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The Tayyab family came from the Punjab in Pakistani in 1972, and set up their first daytime café, simply called ‘Tayyab Kebab House’, at 89 Fieldgate Street, on the former site of a cockney caff. Owner Mohammed Tayyab was the uncle of the proprieter of the longer-established Lahore Kebab House on nearby Umberston Street, established the year before. At the time, Fieldgate Street rang out with the combined cacophony of music from the pub, drunken shouts from the massive homeless hostel next door, industrial noise from the many rag-trade factories in neighbouring streets and calls to prayer from the East London Mosque (originally on the Commercial Road, but moved to its present site on Whitechapel Road in 1975).
Terry Durack (8th September 2008)
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This “frenetic” Pakistani-Punjabi restaurant “is more rough-and-tumble than refined”, concludes the critic, “but it has something magical that makes it 10 times better than committing hurry-curry in Brick Lane”.
Guy Dimond (29th October 2009)
Terry Durack (8th September 2008)
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