Explore the Turkish community along Green Lanes Road, a little Istanbul of Turkish restaurants, food shops, hairdressers, jewellers, travel agents and such. Fast food like pide (pizza), and basins of aubergine stew in the windows that look exactly like what we would eat in Turkey or North Cyprus. The signs are in Turkish as well as (or instead of) English. There's also a (North) Cypriot community centre. We stop at a wholesale and retail shop and buy pul beber (J's favourite soft flaked red pepper), sundried olives, figs, dried apricots, and sundried tomatoes, all at impressively good prices. The olives and pepper are hard to find outside the middle east at any price.
Then back to Kilburn High Road, our old haunt. Dinner at Roses, where the Thursday night special is, as always, the best lamb kleftiko we have had anywhere, including Cyprus. Totally melt in the mouth. And always astonishing prices and quiet local clientele.
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