These 8 on the map
The 8 restaurants on this page, pinned where they actually are. Tap a marker to see which one it is — all 20 are on the map in the Whosly app.
8 of the 20
The Palomar
ChinatownModern Middle Eastern£££A buzzing Rupert Street restaurant cooking modern Jerusalem-style food; sit at the kitchen counter for the show.
The Barbary
Covent GardenNorth African & Middle Eastern£££The Palomar's sibling in Neal's Yard, where every seat is at a counter around the open kitchen, cooking food from North Africa to the Levant.
Honey & Co
BloomsburyMiddle Eastern restaurant£££A warm Lamb's Conduit Street restaurant with silky hummus, fluffy bread and a feta and honey cheesecake on kadaif you shouldn't skip.
Berenjak
SohoPersian grill£££A Soho Persian restaurant with a busy grill, excellent dips and kebabs.
Mangal II
DalstonModern Turkish grill££The Dirik brothers' reinvention of their father's Stoke Newington Road ocakbaşı: superb meat from the charcoal grill, sourdough pide and a natural wine list.
Gökyüzü
HarringayTurkish restaurant££The Green Lanes landmark open since 1999, an all-day, late-night Turkish restaurant with huge grills and a constant crowd.
Hafez
Notting HillFamily-run Persian££One of London's longest-running Persian restaurants, family-run in Notting Hill since 1983, with kebabs from the charcoal grill and warm, fresh bread.
Bubala
SpitalfieldsVegetarian Middle Eastern££A vegetarian Middle Eastern restaurant in Spitalfields, the first of the Bubala group, where the halloumi with black seed honey and the laffa bread are the orders.
The other 12
The 20 are spread across 15 neighbourhoods. Soho (5) and Notting Hill (2) have the most; Bloomsbury, Chinatown, Covent Garden, Dalston, Ealing, Fitzrovia, Hackney, Harringay, Knightsbridge, Marylebone, Park Royal, Shoreditch and Spitalfields have one each.
+12 more in the app
Flatbreads straight from the oven at a tiny bring-your-own Iranian café off Edgware Road, an aubergine sandwich on Goldsmith's Row, Syrian cooking on Kingly Court's top level, a Lebanese restaurant in a former bank on Notting Hill Gate, and more.
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For more of Soho, see the best Italian restaurants in London.
Common questions
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Where can I see all 20?
All 20, on your own map
This page is 8 of them. The London Middle Eastern & Turkish pack in Whosly has all 20 — add it and every one drops onto your map, ready to save, rate and turn into a plan your friends RSVP to from a text, no app needed to answer. The pack is included with Planner Pro.
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