Mavi — Anatolian Kitchen, Brighton

Mavi

Mavi is a small Anatolian kitchen on the Brighton seafront. Mezze, mangal and the long unhurried lunches our chef Aysel grew up with on the Aegean coast — given a south-coast voice with day-boat fish from Newhaven, vegetables from South Downs growers, and Antep spice carried back by the suitcase.

Anatolia, slowly. The long lunch, given a south-coast voice.

Mavi is Aysel Demir's first place of her own — a corner shop on Madeira Drive painted cream and burgundy, opened eighteen months ago. The menu changes most weeks; the hospitality doesn't.

Day-boat fish from Newhaven, vegetables from South Downs growers, olive oil from a small grove in Ayvalık, and spices carried back twice a year from the markets of Gaziantep. Nothing too clever. Salt, smoke, lemon.

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A little of Türkiye, a little of the south coast — and a long table for both.

Aysel Demir, in her grandmother's village near Antep.

Reservations

A table waits, the kettle is on.

Pick a date, pick a time, pick how many of you. The kitchen will fill the rest of the table — slowly, generously, and with too many plates.

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Anatolia, slowly. The long lunch, given a south-coast voice.

A little of Türkiye, a little of the south coast — and a long table for both.

A table waits, the kettle is on.

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