Not sure whether it's true - was Mahmoud's originally Niazi's? Older readers may know the answer.
BEags - No, Mahmoud's and Niazzi's were separate. I suspect the reason the waiter flounced off was probably because you reminded him that the restaurant did not actually, originally, belong to him......
Was in Niazzi's in Kyrenia (Girne) last year - still a good kebab. As I remember, all the best kebabs pre-invasion
were Turkish.