Havet Restaurant

Havet Restaurant, Bromley

195-199 High St, Bromley, BR1 1NN,

About Havet Restaurant

When I think of Turkish food, I don’t think of a tired kebab sitting on a pile of wilting lettuce and gloopy dips. I think of the meals we enjoyed when we were growing up. As a Turkish Cypriot family every dish was as fresh as can be with everything made in the kitchen at home following a trip to the local market.

Turkish food is about the fresh flavours of the Mediterranean that you find in coastal regions combined with spices and cooking techniques from the Middle East. It’s richly diverse and always super, super fresh with succulent meat bought daily and cooked to perfection and fish straight out of the sea and cooked to order.

It was the memory of enjoying authentic, traditional Turkish food from our childhood that compelled my brother and cousin, Tom and Adil, and I to open our first restaurant in 2012. We’d eaten in too many restaurants where everything is brought in – pre-made meze, taramasalata that arrives in a plastic vat and mass produced chilli sauce.