İskender, meze and grills: Turkish restaurants in Berlin
İskender with hot butter at Bursa Uludağ, döner from the family that claims to have put it in bread, pide at Imren and meze in the Bötzow complex at Osmans Töchter: four Turkish places in Berlin.
Turkish food in Berlin is more than the döner on the corner, even if it is supposed to have been invented here. The four places range from the İskender specialist in Schöneberg to a meze evening in the Bötzow complex, and two of them bake their own bread.
Bursa Uludağ Kebapçısı – the İskender specialist
The name says it all: Bursa is the city in north-western Turkey where İskender comes from, and Uludağ is the mountain above it. On Kolonnenstraße İskender takes centre stage: thinly sliced döner meat on pieces of bread, with tomato sauce, yoghurt and hot butter. There is also döner in house-baked bread. The İskender is the reason to go. Open every day until late at night, on Fridays until 3 a.m.
Bursa Uludag KebapcisiSchöneberg · Turkish
Bursa Uludag Kebapcisi
One dish here made it onto our cards.
Döner in Berlin: Where I GoGuides · April 24, 2026Döner in Berlin: Where I GoHasir – the döner dynasty
Hasir means straw mat, and the Aygün family runs several restaurants in Berlin under that name. Mehmet Aygün is considered one of the men who moved döner meat from the plate into bread in the early seventies, although he is not the only one to make that claim. The restaurant on Maaßenstraße is a block from Winterfeldtplatz, with murals and blue tiles. The best is the yaprak döner, layered from slices rather than pressed. If you stay, there are meze and grilled dishes. Everything is halal.
HasirSchöneberg · Turkish
Hasir
One dish here made it onto our cards.
Imren Grill – döner on Hauptstraße
Imren started in Schöneberg in 1993 and now has several branches in Berlin. The döner is made in-house from halal-certified lamb and veal, the flatbread is baked on site and the sauces are a well-kept recipe. The döner in flatbread is the order; if you stay, there is pide with minced meat and lahmacun.
Imren Grill & RestaurantSchöneberg · Turkish
Osmans Töchter – the upscale line
Arzu Bulut and Lale Yanik founded Osmans Töchter in 2012; in spring 2026 the restaurant moved into the historic Bötzow complex on Prenzlauer Allee. Today Arzu Bulut runs it alone. The cooking is modern Anatolian in the meze tradition, with homemade pide, vine leaves with sour cherries and pine nuts, and çiğ köfte as beef fillet tartare. The kitchen is halal. From four people there are sharing menus, one of them vegetarian and vegan. Bookings via the website.
Osmans TöchterPrenzlauer Berg · Turkish
