Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Another New Restaurant Opening on Green Lanes
A few doors down from the Salisbury at 6 Grand Parade, the premises once operating as Tara restaurant are being refurbished for operation as Hanci. No prizes for guessing which cuisine.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Actually I have eaten at the Tara a few times and the food is very different to the Turkish places up and down. Not great for veggies at all but it wasn't the same cuisine, more middle eastern/Kurdish/Iranian I think.
I am unaware if you can get goat neck stew in the other places?
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Permalink Reply by SarahC on
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They used to do very nice bread a while back.
I just googled and it seems to have been Iraqi Kurdish.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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According to 'a well placed source', the owners of Tara took a stand and said 'Look all the restaurants on Green Lanes are run by the Kurdish community cooking Turkish style food. We're going to proudly offer our national cuisine.' ...and they apparently paid the price for so doing. It's been run as a catering business for the past few years.
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Permalink Reply by Felicitá on
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Errrr hello?! We live in a Turkish area! It is something to be celebrated (and no, I'm not Turkish!) If you want to a Vietnamese restaurant, go east, you want to see a celebration of China cuisine - go to China town etc etc... There's a lot of negative posts about the amount of Turkish restaurants in this area on this site and its really disheartening. Who cares if it's another restaurant of similar cuisine as the others on Green Lanes; you don't like it? Move house. Hmph, rant over.
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Permalink Reply by Angela on
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Do we really live in a Turkish area? There are a fair few Turkish run restaurants & shops in Green Lanes and environs but I thought Turkish people only constituted approx. 10% of Haringey's population. There's nothing wrong with wanting a bit more choice when it comes to eating out.
Birdy, I can remember friends trying lambs testicles in a Green Lanes restaurant many years ago!
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I was talking about it being Turkish area - cuisine-wise, ok so yep didn't make that clear - but come on... I like that different parts of London being famed for their different culinary offerings... No, there is nothing wrong with wanting more choice when it comes to eating out at all! If you want something different, get on a bus/tube/taxi/bike! It doesn't hurt to leave your postcode once in a while!
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I have to say, that whilst I love the Turkish restaurants we have and I'm a regular patron of several, I'd be very happy to see more diversity on my doorstep. I spend most of my life outside the neighbourhood and there's no lack of choice out there, but it's still nice to come home to variety on the doorstep.
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Absolutely Hugh.
Especially if you have children and you want to introduce them to the multicultural city they live in. And cost is a factor for most of us, so adding on a tube or bus fare limits our choices.
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I'm not surprised that TARA (so-called) folded. If you want to name your place after the Hill of the High Kings of Ireland, the least you could do is offer a menu of Boiled Bacon, Cabbage & Champ exclusively.
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I agree it would be good to see other types of restaurant but to be honest the main thing for me is quality and good value. I would love to have a good quality Thai or Indian restaurant but if they are not going to be good (we have a few not very good non-Turkish restaurants here, including Spanish, Italian and Chinese) I would rather we get another good Turkish one.
I recently spent a week in Istabul and to be honest I was disappointed about the food I had there. I think what Turksih restaurants offer in Green Lanes is far far better! This is pretty special.
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If you want a good indian hit Jashan on Turnpike lane . Its asking a lot to have many types of cuisine right on your doorstep. People travel from miles around to Green lanes and yet we are complaining about variety . Which other neighbourhood lane has all these requirements.
Just my humble opinion
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