Tayyabs
London, United Kingdom
The read// why locals go
Tayyabs has cooked Punjabi food on Fieldgate Street since 1972, feeding Whitechapel's Pakistani community and everyone who heard about it from them. The kitchen works the tandoor and the karahi: dry-spiced lamb chops that arrive still sizzling, karahi cooked to order, daal that costs almost nothing. Mains are around £14. It is loud, packed and fast, with no alcohol licence — bring your own — and a queue outside most evenings that functions as its review. Nothing about the room has been softened for a wider audience in fifty years, which is exactly why the wider audience keeps coming.
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83 Fieldgate Street, E1 1JU — London
The read// why locals go
Tayyabs has cooked Punjabi food on Fieldgate Street since 1972, feeding Whitechapel's Pakistani community and everyone who heard about it from them. The kitchen works the tandoor and the karahi: dry-spiced lamb chops that arrive still sizzling, karahi cooked to order, daal that costs almost nothing. Mains are around £14. It is loud, packed and fast, with no alcohol licence — bring your own — and a queue outside most evenings that functions as its review. Nothing about the room has been softened for a wider audience in fifty years, which is exactly why the wider audience keeps coming.
