Welcome to Gem Restaurant
We now have a late license and an entertainment license: weekdays until 2:00am; Fridays and Saturdays until 4:00am.
Gem Restaurant serves the finest in traditional and modern Turkish and Kurdish food.
Our highly-skilled chefs prepare our food using only the finest ingredients and this will be served to you by our friendly and knowledgable staff. All our food is freshly prepared and cooked on the premises. We are proud to use charcoal to barbecue our food in an old traditional way.
Our speciality stuffed Kurdish bread (qatme) is freshly prepared in the traditional manner at the front of the restaurant.
Our warm, friendly and courteous team are here to look after you. We look forward to your visit!
Babies and children welcome (high chairs provided).
We are available for private bookings up to a maximum capacity of 100 people and we also provide outside catering.
15% discount on takeaway food
Visit the restaurant and send us some feedback (opens in a new window): you will enter a monthly draw to win a bottle of champagne with your next meal!
We are located at:
265 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 2UQ
Telephone: 020 7359 0405
We are just 5 minutes’ walk from Highbury and Islington tube station; bus numbers 4, 19, 30, 43, N19 and N41 run down Upper Street past Gem.
We are open:
| Monday to Thursday: | 12 noon – 11pm |
| Friday and Saturday: | 12 noon – midnight |
| Sunday: | 12 noon – 10:30pm |
Booking in advance recommended.