Best Turkish Restaurants in Ottawa and near you, ranked by the numbers
Tava Turkish Cuisine ranks #1 of 12 Turkish restaurants in Ottawa with a score of 4.88. It has a rating of 4.9 and 1,335 reviews on Google.
Twelve Turkish restaurants made the list, each scored against an Ottawa-area average of 4.72. Tava Turkish Cuisine is in first place with a score of 4.88. It beats Agha Turkish Restaurant Ottawa and Iskender Kebab House Turkish Cuisine by about 0.08 points. Data was pulled on October 29, 2026, and will be updated every 90 days.
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#1Google’s pick
fromOttawa Score 4.88fromOttawaTava Turkish Cuisine
Top of 12Kanata · West End
7B Kakulu Rd · Google 4.9 (1,335 reviews)
- Why: Stored rank #1; score 4.88/5.
4.9 stars from 1,335 reviews; 87% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: high (87.0%). R = 4.9; v = 1335; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
fromOttawa Score 4.80fromOttawaAgha Turkish Restaurant Ottawa
Nepean
1 Roydon Pl · Google 4.8 (14,098)
- Why: Stored rank #2; score 4.80/5.
4.8 stars from 14,098 reviews; 99% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: high (98.6%). R = 4.8; v = 14098; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
fromOttawa Score 4.79fromOttawaIskender Kebab House Turkish Cuisine
Gloucester
1750 Innes Rd · Google 4.8 (2,612)
- Why: Stored rank #3; score 4.79/5.
4.8 stars from 2,612 reviews; 93% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: high (92.9%). R = 4.8; v = 2612; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
Ranks 4 to 12
Showing 9 of 9 places below the first three on this page.
Each marker sits on the address saved with the place, top 3 included. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
None of the places that match have a saved location.
Ranks 4 to 10: Just off the podium
- fromOttawa Score 4.79
Rank 4: Keyf All İstanbul
4.9 stars from 120 reviews; 38% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: low (37.5%). R = 4.9; v = 120; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
Website not recorded - fromOttawa Score 4.79
Rank 5: Divan Turkish Cuisine
4.8 stars from 1,185 reviews; 86% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: high (85.6%). R = 4.8; v = 1185; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
- fromOttawa Score 4.77
Rank 6: kumpir house Ottawa
4.8 stars from 377 reviews; 65% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: medium (65.3%). R = 4.8; v = 377; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
- fromOttawa Score 4.77
Rank 7: Istanbul Garden Grill
5.0 stars from 41 reviews; 17% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: low (17.0%). R = 5; v = 41; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
Website not recorded - fromOttawa Score 4.75
Rank 8: Olivia Turkish & Tapas
4.8 stars from 86 reviews; 30% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: low (30.1%). R = 4.8; v = 86; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
- fromOttawa Score 4.70
Rank 9: A La Istanbul Turkish Cuisine
4.7 stars from 2,073 reviews; 91% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: high (91.2%). R = 4.7; v = 2073; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
- fromOttawa Score 4.70
Rank 10: Sultan Ahmet Turkish Cuisine Ottawa
4.7 stars from 6,611 reviews; 97% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: high (97.1%). R = 4.7; v = 6611; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
By part of town
These 12 turkish restaurants records are grouped by saved address. West End holds the most, with 5. Each area’s best is a tap away.
0Gatineau sideacross the river
None on this list yet.
5West End
- Kanata 3#1 · Tava Turkish Cuisine
- Nepean 1#2 · Agha Turkish Restaurant Ottawa
- Westboro 1#4 · Keyf All İstanbul
2Downtown
- ByWard Market 1#9 · A La Istanbul Turkish Cuisine
- Glebe 1#10 · Sultan Ahmet Turkish Cuisine Ottawa
2East End
- Gloucester 1#3 · Iskender Kebab House Turkish Cuisine
- Orléans 1#12 · Little Turkish Village Dining Lounge
3South Endbelow the Queensway
- Riverside South 3#6 · kumpir house Ottawa
11 to 12Worth the detour
- fromOttawa Score 4.62
Rank 11: Turkish Kebab House (Bank)
4.6 stars from 1,227 reviews; 86% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: high (86.0%). R = 4.6; v = 1227; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
- fromOttawa Score 4.20
Rank 12: Little Turkish Village Dining Lounge
4.0 stars from 533 reviews; 73% of the score is its own rating.
Score breakdown
Confidence: medium (72.7%). R = 4; v = 533; C = 4.7231; m = 200. Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C.
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Why does 4.9 rank above 5.0?
Score = (v / (v + m)) × R + (m / (v + m)) × C. Ottawa-area average: C = 4.723076923076923; m = 200. R is the recorded Google rating; v is the recorded review count. Confidence is v / (v + m), the rating’s weight in the score.
How we score. Google stars, weighted by review count, pulled toward that average. Data from .
- Tava Turkish Cuisine 4.9 stars · 1,335 reviews
- Agha Turkish Restaurant Ottawa 4.8 stars · 14,098 reviews
- Iskender Kebab House Turkish Cuisine 4.8 stars · 2,612 reviews
Filled square: score. Open circle: Google rating. The axis starts at 4.4; all values are out of 5.
Places screened for this list
115 unique places screened; 103 excluded in the saved list file. 12 ranked places.
- Chains with 10+ locations in Canada
- 5
- Alcohol or excluded type
- 4
- Gambling
- 0
- Under 10 reviews
- 2
- Closed
- 0
- Out of area or category
- 101
- Other source checks
- 1
Reason counts can overlap. Other source checks include identity, rating, branch and pending chain checks. Counts describe the saved screening, not complete local coverage.
Data checked . How we screen and score.
Local talk
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TikTok
- 1 TikTok results in the saved Google organic pull for “turkish restaurant ottawa tiktok”. Pull date: .
- 10 Instagram results in the saved Google organic pull for “turkish restaurant ottawa instagram”. Pull date: .
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Questions
How is the Turkish restaurant score calculated?
Score = (v/(v+m))*R + (m/(v+m))*C, where v is the number of reviews, R is the rating, m is 200 and C is the Ottawa-area average of 4.72. If a place has a low number of reviews it will be pulled closer to the average.
Why does Agha rank below Tava with ten times the reviews?
Agha Turkish Restaurant Ottawa has 14,098 reviews and a rating of 4.8. Tava Turkish Cuisine has 1,335 reviews and a rating of 4.9. Once you get past a few hundred reviews, more of them does not make much of a difference. Tava Turkish Cuisine already has a confidence of 0.87 and Agha has 0.99, so Tava Turkish Cuisine's higher rating is what puts it in first place.
Why are some Turkish restaurants left out?
Some did not have enough Google reviews to give them a fair score when we pulled our data on October 29, 2026. They will be checked again on our next data update in 90 days.