A new Turkish restaurant will open next month.

Nazende, which will focus on Mediterranean dishes, will open in Brighton's Western Road in early March.

Emre Karhan, 48, who moved to the city from Turkey one year ago, will be opening the restaurant with chef Cuma Bayir.

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The restaurant will serve a range of traditional Turkish meat and vegetable dishes including oven-baked casseroles, lahmacun, which is a Turkish pizza-style dish, and charcoal-grilled meals.

Desserts, including baklava, will also be on the menu.

Erme told The Argus: "The most delicious traditional Turkish meat and vegetable  oven-baked casseroles, which have never been found in Brighton, will take our visitors to Antep, the most famous food city of Turkey."

The restaurant is at the former site of La Cupola, near Taco Bell.

The exact opening date is yet to be confirmed.