Big Has hits up Green Lanes with Liman, his first Turkish Cypriot restaurant

London is not immune to the celebrity-opens-restaurant phenomenon, but there are definitely two categories they fall into. First, you have the kind of place that you know the celebrity hasn't an idea of setting foot in the place, let alone eating the food (we're looking at Naomi, Cindy et al with the Fashion Cafe). Then there's the person who's genuinely into food and for whom opening a restaurant has long been the dream.

Hasan Semay (the presenter best known as Big Has) is a YouTuber turned BBC judge and cookbook author. It's fair to say that he's long been talking the talk and firmly falls into the latter category. But putting out content about food and opening your own restaurant are two very different things. For this first bricks-and-mortar venture he's joined up with his cousin and uncle to open Liman Grill & Fry 'shop' on Green Lanes, the area he grew up in.

“I want to give people somewhere they can come down in their tracksuit, knowing they can eat really well for less than £25," says Hasan on Liman. "Proper food made with love, using beautiful ingredients. No mystery meat, but maybe a cut you haven’t tried before that you’ll discover to be extremely delicious."

A coal-fired mangal and Cypriot-style döner will be at the heart of the restaurant in Tottenham. There'll be amazing kebabs, whole grilled seabass, proper sheftalia and Cypriot chips. It'll be a BYO place if you want booze to go with your kebab, with Cypriot soft drinks on sale too.

The top end of Green Lanes is a much-loved spot for Hasan, who gave Hot Dinners a fantastic tour of it for his My Manor a few years back. We reckon this is going to be a big, and deserved, hit.