Book a Table at "Antepliler Doner"

Antepliler Doner

43 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, Harringay Ladder, London N4 1AQ, United Kingdom ·

About the experience

If you’re a meat-lover, you already know that Turkish cuisine is world-renowned for its grilled meats and kebab dishes. In fact, shish kebab and all other kinds of kebab were introduced to the world by the Turkish population who were migrating westward from their home in Central Asia centuries ago. Grilling meat on horizontal skewers has an ancient history in the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia regions, however, it is unknown when slices of meat, rather than chunks, were first used. The town of Bursa is considered one of the birthplaces of the vertically-roasted döner kebab and Iskender kebab. In his own family biography, İskender Efendi of 19th century Bursa wrote that “he and his grandfather had the idea of roasting the lamb vertically rather than horizontally, and invented for that purpose a vertical mangal”. Since then, Hacı İskender has been considered the inventor of Iskender kebab and vertical rotisserie though he might have been preceded by Hamdi Usta from Kastamonu around 1830. Iskender Kebab’s inventor, İskender Efendi, made the dish famous several generations ago during the late 19th century. Iskender Efendi’s nephew and Yahya Akins’ grandson, Mr. Ahmet Murat Ustunsurmeli, has brought the idea of setting up doner and the İskender Kebab restaurant in order to keep his great grandfather’ traditional recipes alive in London.

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