Turkish food in Islington: where to eat, by neighbourhood
Islington's Turkish food splits into two worlds: Upper Street and Angel, where Turkish competes with every cuisine in London, and Holloway Road and Finsbury Park, which are the southern end of the Green Lanes Turkish economy. Ratings are high and hygiene is good.
Restaurants
36
Hygiene 5/5 share
47%
Top postcode
N1
Top postcode districts
- N1 (9)
- N7 (8)
- N4 (6)
- EC1Y (3)
- N19 (3)
This guide walks Islington by neighbourhood: Holloway Road and Finsbury Park; Upper Street and Angel; Highbury, Canonbury and Archway; The demand picture. Counts, hygiene shares and postcode clusters come from our directory; the map below is seeded on the city centre, and each neighbourhood links to the restaurants we list there.
Holloway Road and Finsbury Park
N7 and N4 have most of the borough's Turkish restaurants: ocakbaşı grills, kebab houses and bakeries along Holloway Road and around Finsbury Park station, run by families who also run the Green Lanes places a mile north. This end is crowded and very good value.
Upper Street and Angel
N1's Turkish restaurants are meze-led and priced for Upper Street: polished rooms, licensed, aimed at the evening trade. Two or three have been there for twenty years and are the borough's best known.
Highbury, Canonbury and Archway
The residential middle of the borough has a scattering of Turkish restaurants and cafés and a real gap: residents of Highbury and Canonbury walk to Holloway Road for a grill. Archway to the north is similar.
The demand picture
Islington scores highly on our demand index because of density and search volume, but the N4 and N7 end is genuinely saturated. The opportunity is a family grill or a kahvaltı house in Highbury or Archway.
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