It’s opening just down the road from Harrods
Kebapci Iskender is a Turkish institution – founded in Bursa in 1867, it’s remained a family-run business for several generations, with Oğuzhan İskenderoğlu now in charge. Iskender has two locations in Bursa and a smart restaurant in Istanbul (which we’re big fans of), and now it’s coming to London.
The restaurant is opening on Beauchamp Place, close to Harrods, and though we don’t exactly when yet, the hoardings are up outside the space so we suspect it won’t be too long. We also haven’t seen a menu but given Iskender has been doing its signature iskender kebab – pide piled with tomato sauce and lamb döner, served with roasted aubergine and yoghurt, and finished with plenty of melted butter – for well over a century, this will be the star of the show.
The Iskender restaurants in Turkey also serve the dessert Kemalpaşa (named after Mustafakemalpaşa in Bursa), which is dough made from eggs, semolina, flour and cheese that’s first boiled and then cooked in syrup, and is served with clotted cream, so we’d expect to see these on the London menu too. Watch this space for more….
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Key Information
Opening date | summer 2025
Address | 30 Beauchamp Place, London SW3 1NJ
For more information | @iskenderofficial