Welcome to Zeytin
Charcoal, Smoke
and Long Tables
A family kitchen on Wellington Street since 2009
Anatolian cooking over open charcoal, meze made the same way three generations have made it, and a room built for the kind of dinner that runs late.
Mon–Thu 12–11 · Fri–Sat 12–12 · Sun 12–10
Delight in every bite
Cooked the way
it was taught
Everything that can be made here is made here. The bread goes in at seven, the yoghurt is strained overnight, and the lamb is trimmed by hand each morning rather than arriving in a bag.
The grill is charcoal and always has been. It is slower, it is harder work, and it is the entire reason the food tastes like it does.
Lunch, Monday to Friday
- £13.50One course
- £16.50Two courses
- £19.50Three courses
We saved you a seat
Make a Reservation
Real availability. Twenty tables, 78 covers, one of them an eight. This page knows which are already gone, so it will not offer you a table it has not got.
Your table
Parties of nine or more go through private hire, further down the page.
Table booked
A text confirmation would land on your phone now, and another at ten o'clock on the morning of.
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Tonight on the floor
This is the view the restaurant gets, counted in tables rather than seats. Thirty seats free means nothing if they are fifteen two-tops and the party is six. It updates as bookings come in, which is how a Saturday stops being a guess.
Collection and delivery
Order Online
Direct, not through an app that takes thirty per cent. Same kitchen, same prices as the table.
Your order
Nothing in it yet.
Minimum £15 for delivery. Collection has no minimum.
Demo only. No card details are asked for and no order is placed.
Live music weekly
What's On
The room takes a saz player most Fridays and a full trio on Saturdays. Booking is the same table booking, so nothing is double sold.
Nine or more
Private Hire
and Long Tables
The back room seats twenty-four on one table, or the whole restaurant goes exclusive for up to seventy-eight. Engagements, wakes, work Christmas dinners and the sort of birthday where nobody wants to split a bill fourteen ways.
Tell us roughly what it is and a real person answers within the day, with a set menu priced per head and no service charge surprises.
Sold at eleven at night
Gift Vouchers
Bought online, emailed straight to whoever it is for, redeemable against anything including the bar.
Demo only. No payment is taken and no email is sent.
Find us
Wellington Street
Checking
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01632 960148
Answered during service, not by a machine - hello@zeytin.example
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118 Wellington Street
Luton LU1 5AA
Two minutes from the Library car park
Getting here
Eight minutes' walk from Luton station. The Library multi-storey is free after six. Step-free throughout, and there is an accessible toilet on the ground floor.