Aspendos Margate

You're walking past the seafront towards Cecil Square and the smell hits you first—charcoal, spices, meat on the turn. Aspendos isn't trying to be clever about it. The dining room's straightforward, the kind of place where the focus is entirely on what's coming out of the kitchen. The meze selection is proper—none of that mass-produced stuff—and if you're getting the grilled lamb, you're making the right call. It's the sort of restaurant that's earned its reputation by doing the fundamentals brilliantly, night after night, without any fuss.