The Skewer in Islington

The best Kebab & Doner place in London. A must try!!

Lamb Shish is amazing. Great people, great service.

This is our favourite local restaurant. The Lamb Shish with rice and salad is perfection. My partner and I always come back here for the quality & service. This place is the one ✨

I came to eat lunch with my partner where we ordered the Skewer Special for us to share, the service was quick and efficient. The food was beautiful, fresh and delicious, £50 and I can say it’s 100% worth It’s money with how much came in the platter and has now become my go to place if I’m craving Turkish food!

delicious food with good portion, and very friendly service here. The staff are very helpful, and provide free hot milk to our youngest child. The skewers are so tasty with a pleasant scent, really a treasure hidden in the city!

This was one the best chicken sheesh in London, I Defoe recommend. Friendly staff, great prices and clean restaurant. One of my fav places.

Definitely one of the best hummus we ever had. The lamb shish skewers were perfectly cooked and matched with Efes Beer. We shared a large one and were full. Service was fantastic. The owners helped us order and were very kind and accomodating

It was my first time here I have seen it Many times passing going to and work I’m so glad I went a tried it as tried many Turkish but this one was so nice I went for the family Meal and extra salad. The meal fed 5 adults easy and some left over I swapped my chips for rice which was nice touch. From start to finish the service was absolutely amazing the guys behind the counter Ali I’m sure I caught his name right at every stage of the making process asking me how Many adults to make sure he offered enough food and in the end more than enough some for lunch the next day. Overal they guys there were absolutely amazing and food fresh and nice I will be going back which is always a good Sign when the whole family all agreed it’s their monthly takeaway. I will Also pop In there for lunch as it was very nice indeed. Thanks guys I will be back very soon.

We're visiting London and after reading great reviews, we decided to try The Skewer and we're very happy that we did. We thoroughly enjoyed the Lamb and Chicken Skewers served with rice or with chips and a delicious side salad of cucumber, red onion, tomato and red cabbage. The generous skewers were seasoned and cooked to perfection. We were very pleased. It is a family-owned restaurant and is run with a lot of heart, soul and pride. GG will make you feel at home and could not have been more attentive. If I was lucky enough to live close by, I would be eating here all the time. Thank you for a great meal!

Super food, service. Will definitely come back

Amazing food. Really tasty and filling! Had the mixed lamb and chicken donner with chips. Vibe was great as well with such a welcoming service provided by all the staff in there. Will definitely drop by again. Cheers!

Wonderful service and food. Best restaurant on Caledonian!

We went for a stroll and felt compelled to check it out. We were instantly SHOCKED and INSPIRED by the diverse menus, the very welcoming (and funny) staff who seemed to maintain a healthy workplace dynamic, with all there private jokes and interactions with other local residents and other restaurants goers. My falafels were perfectly round

Honestly one of the best places ive ever gone to have kebab

Really good Turkish cafe. Chicken and lamb doners are really good. The staff is super friendly, and makes you feel like you're at home ☺️

Amazing experience & really good service. Nice, fun & carrying people that made everything feel like home.

Honestly the food and prices are not bad but they are not true to their words. On the weekend. I was gonna order chicken doner on rice and the large guy with buzz cut and long beard was just talking too much, trying to convince me to spend more. At last he said “I’ll make you a big plate for £13 brother” and on top of that he said “go get a drink also brother”. Ofc as anyone would have though, I thought the drink was included to the price. After the meal he charged me for drink too!! On top of that, when I asked for white rice, he kept sayin he got a “special rice” showing me basic bulgur (which was in a small container and seemed like left overs) and trying to make me go for it. Please don’t act like your customers are stupid, trying to charge more or acting like you got “special rice”. Even though I liked the place a lot, the guy just ruined it for me as he acted like a basic scammer in bazaar, talking too much and trying to force me to buy things calling them “special” and insisting on going large with every order.

Great food restaurant run by my old friend Ali lovely family run business will defo come again and have been telling all my family and friends to try xx

The cuisine at Skewer restaurant is absolutely delightful. Every dish is bursting with flavor and is made with the freshest ingredients. The side salad is a perfect complement to the main meal, and it's just as outstandingly fresh as everything else. If you're looking for a fantastic dining experience, I highly suggest visiting Skewer restaurant.

Will be definitely going there again. Clean, modern and very attentive staff. Food is also really nice.

We had our midnight snack here and got adana kebap with rice and another order with a wrap. We also got milk rice pudding. Tastes amazing.

The food is DELICIOUS! Made with love by a touching and amazing Turkish family who makes you feel home instantly. I can highly recommend the lentil soup, I have never had such a tasty and nourishing one! The Halloumi falafel wrap is also a full meal in itself! I will miss this place for sure! With love, your neighbors

Great customer service and nice food… Very welcoming place. Ate couple times during trip from the US

This blew us away. Amazing kebab. Absolutely delicious. And the owner was serving and he made us hugely welcome. It makes all the difference. Wholly, hugely, enormously recommended. Perfect finish to our brilliant night out, old friends catching up.

The best food, the best staff and overall great atmosphere. So happy this is my local!!! Visit the Skewer

Fantastic atmosphere! The most amazing food and GG was a pleasure

Delish good and very kind service. 10/10 recommend

SO SO GOOD! get the lamb chops, you will not be disappointed!

Best food in Islington very nice and welcoming people really nice eating environment 5star allday long

Today was my 2nd visit, with my first being in Autumn last year. Although it was not too busy with it being a Sunday evening, the atmosphere to sit down and eat is a pleasant one. The owners son remembered me from last time. It's little things like this and the free dips and pitta that make the visit. The food is great, and I cleared my plate. I'll definitely be going back when I am next in the area and recommend it to anyone, my colleagues or friends who are nearby.

Hello. I checked at the hotel reception but we told they didn’t receive any delivery. But the app reads delivered. Didn’t know how else to contact and followup on the order. Kindly assist

Ordered a lovely lamb shish in regular and regretted not getting the large after the first bite. Heavenly food, great service and a cozy atmosphere. Will deffo be back when I return to London!

Amazing Turkish fresh grill, perfectly seasoned. Generous serving of lentil soup, mildly spiced as tradition recommends. Average prices, friendly staff. Unfortunately bulgur rice was not ready yet when I visited at midday but there will be chance to try that next time.

Such great service and food in the area! Take away or have in. And honest people who found my I pods for me and kept them while I was away. Can’t recommend enough! The hummus and chicken Shish were great!

The kebab meat was terrible fatty and nasty. The salad was old. Never going to order from this place again.

A great reason to move to the surroundings of cally road, this place is going to be one of the best places to sit in the sun with amazing food

Best food I’ve had in a while 10/10 experience and food

Best food ever Service was amazing and friendly

Me and my friends came here staff were very nice and the food was amazing I would definitely recommend must try 10/10

fabulous Kebabs, very tasty. The menu could do with some work as it seems a bit jumbled up, not in order. and would be nice to have a small version of donna meat and chips, the large one is to big for me and I end up wasting half of it.

Amazing service, they were really nice. Great food. Top tier.

Wonderful discovery! Family business, warm welcome, the whole team at your service. We simply enjoyed ourselves ;) Make your own experience and above all ask for the Efes with the mother's specialty for the aperitif...

Excellent food and serives. Very friendly family business.

This place has been here under new management and new name for 18 months (so I’m told). It’s so so much better than the previous place. Lovely staff, feels like a family run restaurant and boy do they work hard. Pretty busy when we came at the weekend but didn’t have to wait long for service. We had usual stuff : Iskender kebab, shish lamb, plus a delicious Kleftico and potatoes. They also serve char grilled sea bass & bream. They have a licence so we had Efes lager and reasonably priced wine. Try it, it’s a great local asset and doesn’t charge stupid prices for mediocrity which is commonplace today. Good luck to the management - you deserve success.

The people are so nice, the food is so delicious. I recommended the sheep stick. You will not regret to come here!

Very good service and decent food. Loved the homemade sauces which had unique flavours.

Very friendly staff, the food is amazing. lamb shish and various other dishes are delicious. Good value for money

Really lovely informal Turkish restaurant. Down from Manchester for a few days, we were looking for somewhere to eat on the Caledonian Road on a rainy night in January. Looked through the window and saw good food being eaten by wise people. Went in and the owner and his son made us really welcome. The grilled chicken kebabs were delicious and the salads and sauces freshly made by the owner and his wife. Went back to our hotel with a portion of their home-made rice pudding, which - in all honesty - was the best ever!

Amazing family owned business, excellent food, very clean, good prices.

The food really is as good as they say. Chicken wings were delightful, chicken skewers tender, the lamb chops and cubes dune just right. The meat plate came on a pile of rice with side of chips. Salad, pita bread and sauces perfect complements. Perfect meal for the family!

A very welcoming atmosphere with fantastic food

Best Turkish restaurant I've been in London and I've lived here for 9 years

Nice staff 👍 great tasting food 👌

APPAULING QUALITY! I ordered a large mixed donor in pitta bread which i recieved just lamb donor, with chips and a halep kebab which on the menu states is minced meat and recieved the same lamb donor meat in a sauce. Called the restaurant and they sent someone with the right order. Lamb donor meat was dry and absolutely horrid. Very cheap quality. Chicken donor was dry and a sharp thin bone found while eating. Halep also bad quality, Small bone also found. We threw away. wont order again.

The Skewer my new favourite best Turkish Restaurant that reflects the Turkish culture in the most beautiful and delicious way. We had a lovely dinner with my colleagues and really enjoyed the delicious food for very reasonable prices, fresh home made sauces, food, salads wonderful breads and dips the meat is tender, juicy and perfectly cooked the quality of food is simply amazing. Such a good service, and warm atmosphere with attentive, helpful and wonderful staff. Will be back again soon with my family as well.

I came here today with my work colleagues, and it was amazing, the experience the atmosphere, very welcoming and humble, the food was lovely and made just right, the kept asking if I would like anything else, and I appreciate that so much! I would recommend you come and try this place,

Everything is made fresh from scratch, excellent quality meat, the lamb shish is busting with flavour, flavours here are not overpowering as I've found in many places, including the sauces, they've got the flavours right here, plus there's a choice of pitta or wrap, their fresh made bread is a delicious bonus. Good size portions, good prices, exceptional customer service (as good as it gets), a family run business full of thoughtful, kind and attentive staff, who are happy to let us play our card games and relax, staff are superb.

Great food and great service. The service and food was good. The staff were amazing. Went out for work so!!! A1

lovely family run business. Had the lunch time menu for £9 great value for money, you get lots of food. Lovely staff, very clean definitely eat there again

This is my go-to kebab shop. Have eaten here loads of time, and each time it’s perfect!!! Always super fast, friendly, and delicious!

Poor quality it was really cold couldn’t eat it

Lovely little Turkish restaurant, food was fantastic. Ali was really pleasant as well. Would definitely recommend

Amazing foor there, and the staff is super friendly!

Never received order. Called the store to check where my order was. Over an hour later still no order but the driver claimed it's been delivered. Terrible customer service

Restaurant called me to confirm what we actually wanted, great service. Food was hot and in time.

This restautant is golden! The Lamb Beyti was great as it was so juicy and seasoned well. Personally, it was my favorite meat out of all of them. I do not typically like chicken but the chicken here tasted great and was exceptionally seasoned. The fries were satisfying too, and tasted good with or without salt (I had both). They were not too soft nor too hard. I wish they had more sauce options but when you have food this good, you really won't need anything else. We got take out, but when we stopped inside, the interior looked great, it had modern decor, nice lighting, and an open view. The only thing better than the food was the man that made it. Me and my sister had a warm conversation with him and he showed great hospitality. I'm glad the brunch joint we intended to eat at was closed because we hit a gold mine with the food here!

I ordered from here for the first time because the review seem to be good. However, worse food I’ve ever ordered. The salad was off the chilli sauce was off and rotten smelled very foul the food itself was smelled rotten and the contains were damaged so most of the food fell onto the plastic bag absolutely disgusting food never again

Absolute favourite. Owner was super attentive. Food was amazing, hot and fresh every time. We had wings, mix doner, chicken doner with rice and chips. Highly recommended.

AMAZING KAFTA!!! The employees were so so kind and welcoming and created a phenomenally tasting meal for us!

Excellent for a sit in kebab meal. Great halloumi too

Amazing service and amazing food. The portions were also very big, so be prepared to eat! Will definitely be back again.

Great service and food. Will definitely be back for some of those wings!

Tasty food, delivered hot and on time!

massive portions and a great chat!

Great customer service and food! Plus love Sebay,!

Food that I order with chicken sish served with rice & salad alonside a nann bread which was very nice with garlic sauce blended in well. A person call mehmet was very kind person as he help us in service

A nice cafe style restaurant with a kebab shop twist. The place itself is nicely decorated, the large glass windows add lots of light. The place is nice and clean. The food is good and the service is very good. They are also very friendly and professional. It's just a little expensive for a kebab 🥙.

Friendly atmosphere lamb chops 10/10

After living in the area for over two years now The Skewer is my go-to Kebab shop. Zero complaints, staff goes above and beyond and I'm happy every time!

I don’t normally leave reviews unless things are exceptionally good or exceptionally bad - this food was exceptionally good! Probably one of the best kebabs I have tasted. Super fresh ingredients, flavoursome and absolutely cooked to perfection. They clearly take pride in their food. I’m no chip connoisseur BUT even the chips were absolute perfection; crispy on the out side and fluffy on the inside, so tasty no sauce needed. Delivered hot straight from their top notch restaurant. 5* service.

Fresh tasty kebabs, very clean and modern space, super friendly staff - would definitely recommend!

Ordered via just eat. Owner called to ask what we would like on the wraps to make sure we got exactly what we wanted. The wraps themselves were delicious, not greasy at all which I would almost expect from donner meat. Really tasty, looking forward to ordering again!

Big up GG, Food and Service is a 10/10

GG is a legend, service and food 10/10!

Top tier kebab and friendly service from GG

Incredible food! They called just to confirm my order and ask if I want anything extra the rice was fantastic buttery and delicious - quality of the meat 10/10. These guys know what they are doing.

Thank you very much. Sucuk wrapped in a lahmacun is banging.

Excellent food, excellent customer service ! Thank you !

I can only agree the food is really great there. Not a fan of the red cabbage in Doner London style, but everything else made it a perfect experience. Good meat, nice service.

Amazing place! Great food, and incredible service. They went out of their way to make us feel welcome. Absolutely recommend

Friendly staff, amazing food and a perfect atmosphere for families. Well done guys 👍💯

Excellent food and excellent service from the restaurant, 10/10.

They should have a mixed large option was a bit small but nice

Really good kebab place! The quality of the meat is really good and the kebabs are VERY flavourful. There’s really good variety and the portions are really good too, for the large kebabs, with reasonable price. The baklava and Turkish tea is amazing too. Deffo better than most kebab places

Very polite workers and decent service. Would come down again

My go to for a lovely Turkish meal. They have all the basics for a late night kebab, but also a great spot to sit down for a simple and tasty meal. Fish, chicken, lamb… fun staff too.

Fresh, tasty and good value. Nice guys there and all round top spot

Thank you for a lovely family meal for my husband's birthday today.. Without even booking they accommodated all 10 of us and the food was top rate 👌 👍 💯

Juicy chicken and lamb meat in the mixed kebab happy I ordered😀🥙

I like that the guy calls you to check exactly how you want your food.. The food is lovely, it's fresh and hot, thank you guys, see you again soon