Hala Restaurant

We visit this place a lot, not a bad meal here. Gozleme is always fresh and yummy. Paca soup is excellent. Only criticism is that icli kofte can be better-​hope they are not using old mince meat-​. They do daily meals as well. We like their complimentary deserts, something different and tasty. Staff is always welcoming. Highly recommended!

I don’t know why it’s much easier to get a table here than next door, but after a very delicious search of all the Turkish places on green Lanes I’ve decided this is the best. Everything is super fresh, plus you get the most perfect little cheese pastry at the end of your meal.

A moins d’être logé par ici, il est fort peu probable d’arriver par hasard dans le coin. Quartier un peu excentré, je né serais jamais venue aussi loin (Greenlanes) si ce n’était pas le quartier d’une amie. Quand elle nous a proposé de dîner dans un «restaurant turc», on s’attendait sincèrement à manger un kebab. Quand elle m’a dit «on va manger turc «, je m’attendais à un simple kebab. No offense à la cuisine turque, c’est juste qu’on y allait sans grand espoir, juste pour se voir. Eh bien toutes mes excuses !
J’ai rarement aussi bien mangé — ô bonheur quand tu né t’attends à rien et que quand tu vois les plats arriver tu n’en crois pas tes yeux ! Quelle né fut pas notre surprise quand les immenses assiettes ont commencé à défiler… Des salades savoureuses et fraîches (achards de tomates, olives, houmous,…). En plats, j’aurais pu me contenter du riz tellement il était délicieux. Mais il y avait aussi les falafels… Damn. Et les côtes d’agneau grillé étaient apparemment succulentes.
Un conseil: né vous excitez pas trop sur les entrées et le super pain (c’est dur, mais behave a little), ce qui suit est juste démentiel.
Rapport qualité/​prix imbattable, dur d’avoir faim en sortant de là. C’était plus que copieux, le repas gargantuesque. Le tout servi par des serveurs aux petits soins: helwa Hala !

Excellent food quality and service. Try the chef daily recommended dish. The kufte is tender and juicy both chicken and lamb. Highly recommended. Reasonable prices.

Had the lamb stew which was way too salty, mind u this was late in the evening so it prob been sitting there all day. Wont be going back.

I’ll keep this short, there are loads of restaurants/​kebab places along green lanes. I’ve tried about 6 of them. This is my favourite so far. Great food and great value. Simples

Friendly service thank you Hala Restaurant management

wowwwwwwwwwwwzaaaaaaa. £6 for an absolute feast of a takeaway! makes you wonder why anyone would go anywhere else! for real! I had the chicken with vegetables (very tasty, especially the potatoes!!) with rice, bread (gorgeous) and salad for £6! yes thats right! £6! can you believe it?! I’d do promo for this company for free food!

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Really tasty, really fantastic, best of the bunch!

hala is now open with new decoration. visit

I’ve been visiting Greenlanes most weekends for two years now (and have just moved nearby), and it just continues to surprise and excite me.
Hala has just opened up in the space left next by the departed Café Lime (next to Café Lemon, going for maximum imagination round these parts). The people here are incredibly friendly for starters. Imagine three rather worse for wear individuals bumbling into your restaurant at 9.30 on a Saturday night after a day at the cricket. Wearing penguin suits. Too many places would sneer or turn people away — this lot on the other hand furnished us with menus and helped us decide on a feast fit for a king (penguin). We chatted to the head chef who said he’d make us up the house special — mixed grill for two with a few extras to bump it up to feed three.
We put away lots of bread, yoghurt and salad while we were waiting — the bread is as it is everywhere round these parts, soft and pillowy with just enough chew. The salad was great — refreshing with tomatoes, lemon juice and superb small olives. And then. Oh and then, the kebab arrived. I have never seen such a plate of beauty. We had a little of everything from the menu — chicken wings, lamb and chicken shish, proper bits of adana and lamb patties — my god, it was good. So so good. It all came in on a huge bed of fluffy and slightly creamy rice that I could have eaten on its own.
We waddled off into the night as only drunk and stuffed penguins can. Very, very happy. Well done Hala.

Excellent turkish cuisine served with great courtesy. The gozleme were delicious and the homemade ayran was something special. We had so many wonderful starters we hardly had room for any main course.

The only place on Green Lanes which can compete with the spectacle of Antepliler. Two women in the window churn out mountains of fresh gozleme, ready to be cooked to order.
I regularly stop in here for a gozleme to take away, which is excellent value and close to the best snack going on the Lanes. It’s a toss up between gozleme from here or lahmacun from Antepliler, but if you’re in a hurry this is definately the place to go as the service is much more efficient at Hala.
If you are stopping for a sit down meal, the menu also includes the usual turkish collection, and the daily stews are of a particularly good standard.

The kids being fascinated by the ladies in the window making gozleme (as we found out when we went in), we decided to have a bit of tea here.
The place used to be Café Lime and apart from the enormous cooking area that has now appeared, the décor is much the same, wooden panelling and muted colours.
Being teatime, it was very busy but we didn’t have to wait for either service or our food both of which were very good.
We went for a big plate of Gozleme: Potato, Spinach, minced lamb, and cheese flavoured, washed down with the fanciest Ayrans on Green Lanes.
All Delicious!
The menu also has all the other stuff you might expect; kebebs, pide, meze, fish but a quick nose round the table and the speed with which the other customers finished them off suggested that the other food on offer was equally good.
Price: 5 gozleme and 2 ayrans = £12. Highchair available and kids made very welcome.