About

Gökyüzü is owned and run by us, the Yavuz family, and has been since we first opened our doors to the restaurant in the popular Green Lanes area of Harringay in 1999.

We originally hail from a small village in Kahramanmaras, an area near to Gaziantep in Turkey. When we arrived in the UK in the 1990s we had a longing for really authentic Turkish food. There were plenty of Turkish restaurants and cafés in the area, but we wanted to show the people of London what Turkish dining is really about: freshness, quality ingredients, delicately flavoured dishes, succulent meats expertly char-grilled, home-baked bread, and most of all, a very warm welcome.

At first our parents and uncle did all the cooking. They showed us how to prepare our favourite dishes from our grandparents’ kitchens. Meanwhile we set out to find the best local suppliers to ensure that all our ingredients were of the very best quality possible. We still use many of those very same suppliers to this day.

As a family business it was vitally important to us that everyone worked well as a team. We took a lot of care in selecting great chefs and training our front-of-house staff to understand the Gökyüzü way of doing things… with warmth and generosity. Nothing is too much trouble in our restaurant. Our customers are our guests: just as they would be in our home.