(smartshanghai.com)
Updated: 2007-10-25 10:53

Could the benchmark for a Doner Kebab be set by Berlin? If it comes to having grilled meat in a warm pitabread, fresh salad, yoghurt sauce and "yes-please-lot-of-spicy", the biggest Turkish city after Istanbul boasts some 270 kebab outlets, their turnover outdoing McDonalds...

Anyway, a Kebab in Berlin, in between 1-3am, as a stop-over during a pub-crawl - that's our benchmark. Anadolu on Hengshan road is coming pretty close: the Turkish restaurant is most functional in decoration (pretty bland so to say) with friendly staff, even at 1:30 in the morning. The Kebab-wrap came as: tender meat, nicely seasoned, with loads of salad in a thin "fladenbroat" - we just missed some garlic-yoghurt sauce (but did not bother to ask for it). Some people say the proportion of bread on the Kebab-sandwich is too big... we have not yet tried.

However, Anadolu is what you should expect of a Kebab den: simple, tasty, fresh, cheap and good at any time of the day (or night). Doner comes at 18, Turkish buffet at 100.

Anadolu
Tel: 021-54650977
Location: Hengshan Lu 4-6, near Wulumuqi Road
Hours: Sun/Mon/Tue/Thu : 10am-2am
Wed/Fri/Sat: 10am-5am