Aladdin Turkish Restaurant

You'll find Aladdin tucked away on Canterbury Street, in that part of town where the old Coventry still lives. Walk in and you're straight into the kind of place where regulars know the owners and the kitchen's always busy—the kind of authenticity you can't manufacture. The menu sticks to what it does well: chargrilled meats, proper kebabs, and the sort of mezze that makes you realise how underseasoned most high-street Turkish restaurants actually are. It's unpretentious cooking, the sort that depends entirely on technique and fresh ingredients rather than theatre. People keep coming back, and the 4.1 rating suggests they're doing something right.