# Best doner kebab shop in Soton? **URL:** \ **Category:** Food and drink\ **Created:** [31 January 2016 15:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425 "2016-01-31T15:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 15:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/1 "2016-01-31T15:42:49Z")
**EDIT** Where iss the best place to buy a doner kebab? ## **NOT ORIGINALLY MY THREAD** ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 15:44 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/2 "2016-01-31T15:44:41Z")
Fuck knows, I live in Scotland ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 15:50 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/3 "2016-01-31T15:50:31Z")
Sorry Stephen… I wa sbeing given a bit of grief from Mrs Abandon of spending too much time on the internet … but needless to say, my knowledge of local Kebab procurement is limited to Central Fife ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 16:10 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/4 "2016-01-31T16:10:54Z")
> Originally posted by @Stephen > > Where iss the best place to buy a doner kebab? Is this a trick question, sir? There is no best place to buy a doner kebab. All purchases involve moments of complete misjudgement. normally drunken, but sometimes borne from tragic life circumstances, such as being raised on Pop Tarts. ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 16:16 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/5 "2016-01-31T16:16:12Z")
I’m easily influenced. Once again, Jack Dee is to blame. 1m20 onwards. [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luEPXmRJwxA) ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:17 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/6 "2016-01-31T17:17:56Z")
Assuming this was a serious request, I did some follow up with a city-based conneisseur. Apparently, Lounge in Woolston is good. [http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-lounge-so19/menu](http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-lounge-so19/menu) Southampton Kebab & Chicken is apparently a good “proper Southampton” place. [http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-southamptonkebab-so14/menu](http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-lounge-so19/menu) I love that “proper Southampton” was qualified there. Dirty, over the river buggers \* :lou_lol: \* I jest, I jest. ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:24 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/7 "2016-01-31T17:24:34Z")
The only places I know of where you can get a good doner kebab are in London (Dalston area mostly) and they’re all Turkish run. You get meat that is recognisably lamb and not some horrible rendered paste stuff. Also, they serve it in fab bread, not the usual taste-free pitta. Mangal Ocakbasi is one of the best - fuck all use my telling you this if you’re looking in Southampton, mind. :lou_lol: ---
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:25 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/8 "2016-01-31T17:25:52Z")
Best imho used to be Marmaris on St Denys Road but that has changed hands now. Bitterne Grill is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/9 "2016-01-31T17:34:08Z")
> Originally posted by @Fowllyd > > The only places I know of where you can get a good doner kebab are in London (Dalston area mostly) and they’re all Turkish run. You get meat that is recognisably lamb and not some horrible rendered paste stuff. Also, they serve it in fab bread, not the usual taste-free pitta. I honestly didn’t know such things existed. Will have to give them a go the next time I’ve got free time in the capital. I’m not going to pretend I’ve never eaten donner meat. We all have, probably. I’ve just never felt good about it in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/10 "2016-01-31T17:34:34Z")
Useful for me, I’m not far down the road. Cheers Fowlly :lou_wink: ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:44 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/11 "2016-01-31T17:44:45Z")
No worries. I lived in Stoke Newington for about fifteen years, so I knew the local Turkish places pretty well. The original Mangal is on Arcola Street, a side street off Stoke Newington Road; there’s also the larger (and licensed) Mangal II, which is on Stoke Newington Road a bit closer to Dalston (just up from the Rio, on the other side of the road). If you eat at the Mangal II you stand a very good chance of seeing Gilbert and George, as they eat there every evening. Yes, every evening. ---
**Author:** ![Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/coxford_lou/32/11_2.png) [@Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Coxford_lou)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:47 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/12 "2016-01-31T17:47:55Z")
I second this recommendation. Mangal 2 is my fav, but probably only because it’s the first I found. And they do takeaway! ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:53 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/13 "2016-01-31T17:53:07Z")
Unlike other kebab emporiums which presumably nail your feet to the floor of their establishment until you have consumed your meal(s). ---
**Author:** ![Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/coxford_lou/32/11_2.png) [@Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Coxford_lou)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 17:58 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/14 "2016-01-31T17:58:25Z")
Pap, I think you should promote this site for recommendations about anything Southampton related. Buy some google adwords ‘Best Southampton recommendations’ ‘We know the best kebab shops, pubs, hardware stores this side of the M27’ then you could really set this place up! Stick a bit of advertising on, and make your fortune! ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 18:01 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/15 "2016-01-31T18:01:16Z")
So that’s what he does for a living these days… thought he was still selling stationary? ---
**Author:** ![TedMaul](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TedMaul](https://www.sotonians.com/u/TedMaul)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 18:06 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/16 "2016-01-31T18:06:31Z")
Used to go to one on London Road, round the corner from Rhino’s nightclub … This was 20 years ago though 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 18:06 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/17 "2016-01-31T18:06:57Z")
The borderline communists would hang me out to dry if I did that. Besides, Goaters has a theory that sensitivity to advertisers might be one of the reasons Steveweb has a swear filter. Fuck that shit. ---
**Author:** ![TheCholulaKid](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/thecholulakid/32/17_2.png) [@TheCholulaKid](https://www.sotonians.com/u/TheCholulaKid)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 18:29 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/18 "2016-01-31T18:29:17Z")
We did this on another thread recently. But I’ll chime in again. KRG - if you haven’t eaten there then you are missing out. I second Fowllyd and Lou. ---
**Author:** ![Bucks](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/bucks/32/87_2.png) [@Bucks](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Bucks)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 18:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/19 "2016-01-31T18:34:08Z")
Pretty sure I used the same one Ted, after a night in the Academy club. Also 20 years ago! ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2016 18:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425/20 "2016-01-31T18:34:56Z")
Furthermore, if you’re eating at the Mangal II, then wash your meal down with either Efes pilsner or, if you prefer wine, Villa Doluca red. Both from Turkey, of course; the latter is an excellent pure Gamay at a decent price (you can also get it in all the Turkish food shops in the area, along with the wonderful freshly-baked bread. I really don’t miss living in London, but I’d love to be able to get those things just by walking round the corner as I used to do…) [Next page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/best-doner-kebab-shop-in-soton/1425.md?page=2)