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After a week of cheese fondue, wiener schnitzel and apple strudel, we needed a quick and simple supper when we returned on Friday night. So what better choice than Lara which, just 0.2 miles away, is the nearest restaurant to our house.
Established in 1965 as Andy's Kebab House, it became Lara in 2003. It's incongruously situated in that mock Tudor building by the roundabout at the top of Turnham Green Terrace. There's a large restaurant upstairs but we sat in the smaller area downstairs, next to the takeaway counter in the space that used to be The Codfather.
Lara specialises in traditional Turkish food and other Mediterranean specialities. Whilst our son who was home for the Kalamari trip is a committed carnivore, his elder sister is as committed a vegetarian and so that influenced our orders. We started with some humus (perhaps that's the Turkish spelling) with warm pitta bread and hellim izgara (grilled halloumi). The girls went big on aubergine for the main course - patlican-biber kizartma (fried aubergine and peppers with yoghurt) and imam bayildi (fried aubergine stuffed with onion, chickpeas, mushroom and herbs).
Don't be put off by the twirling stack of doner lamb, the restaurant is probably best known for its shish dishes, meat barbecued on a charcoal grill. In the interests of the blog I had to go for the Bedford Park Special - a combination of marinated chicken and lamb served with couscous and salad.
We washed it all down with a bottle of Yakut, a very acceptable Turkish red.
Food (for 3): £36.25
Drink: £21.49
Total: £64.24
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