Open a Turkish restaurant in North West
Thinking of opening a Turkish restaurant in North West? We compare all 32 councils in the region on one table. The region has 241 Turkish restaurants in total, with roughly 38,411 monthly searches across councils with known volume. 51% of the 182 rated Turkish restaurants here hold a 5-star food hygiene rating. On demand score, the three best-placed councils are Salford (driven by search demand), Manchester (driven by search demand), Cheshire East (driven by search demand). The table below ranks every council by score, restaurants, searches and residents per restaurant, so you can see which councils are least saturated.
Manchester carries the highest Turkish-food search demand of any council outside Westminster, and its supply is thin and unevenly rated: the Rusholme and Wilmslow Road corridor, the Northern Quarter and the Didsbury and Chorlton suburbs hold most of the restaurants, while Salford, Trafford and Stockport have very little. Liverpool's cluster is almost entirely in the L1 city centre around Bold Street, with the suburbs unserved. Across the wider region, Lancashire's mill towns have long-established kebab trades but few sit-down Turkish restaurants, and hygiene scores in Greater Manchester are among the lowest in the data set. The opportunity here is quality in the city centres and coverage in the suburbs, not more takeaways.
Turkish Restaurants UK Editorial Team — updated 2026-09-04
Every council in North West
| # | Council | Demand score | Verdict | Turkish restaurants | Monthly searches | Residents/restaurant | Hygiene-5 share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Salford | 86 | underserved | 3 | 1,260 | 44,988 | 50% |
| 02 | Manchester | 85 | underserved | 35 | 11,100 | 14,525 | 42% |
| 03 | Cheshire East | 78 | underserved | 7 | 1,880 | 39,877 | 67% |
| 04 | Liverpool | 76 | underserved | 35 | 5,600 | 12,792 | 18% |
| 05 | Tameside | 75 | underserved | 6 | 1,804 | 25,674 | 80% |
| 06 | Trafford | 74 | underserved | 7 | 1,835 | 23,506 | 67% |
| 07 | Bolton | 66 | balanced | 9 | 1,140 | 24,664 | 9% |
| 08 | Stockport | 66 | balanced | 11 | 1,340 | 21,055 | 67% |
| 09 | Sefton | 63 | balanced | 8 | 990 | 25,386 | 100% |
| 10 | Cheshire West and Chester | 60 | balanced | 15 | 1,360 | 19,842 | 71% |
| 11 | Warrington | 54 | balanced | 8 | 730 | 19,179 | 14% |
| 12 | Pendle | 53 | balanced | 0 | 520 | 31,919 | — |
| 13 | Oldham | 53 | balanced | 3 | 510 | 40,348 | 100% |
| 14 | Wyre | 50 | balanced | 2 | 608 | 22,389 | — |
| 15 | West Lancashire | 48 | balanced | 3 | 638 | 19,571 | 67% |
| 16 | St. Helens | 48 | balanced | 5 | 650 | 22,907 | 60% |
| 17 | Preston | 42 | balanced | 6 | 750 | 16,426 | 67% |
| 18 | Blackpool | 41 | balanced | 7 | 700 | 14,104 | 75% |
| 19 | South Ribble | 39 | saturated | 5 | 603 | 13,879 | 100% |
| 20 | Wirral | 39 | saturated | 14 | 680 | 18,835 | 44% |
| 21 | Lancaster | 39 | saturated | 3 | 370 | 23,822 | — |
| 22 | Fylde | 38 | saturated | 2 | 442 | 16,276 | 100% |
| 23 | Rochdale | 36 | saturated | 7 | 470 | 22,377 | 40% |
| 24 | Wigan | 32 | saturated | 11 | 350 | 23,524 | 11% |
| 25 | Bury | 30 | saturated | 10 | 390 | 14,912 | 67% |
| 26 | Ribble Valley | 29 | saturated | 1 | 334 | 15,390 | — |
| 27 | Hyndburn | 28 | saturated | 3 | 447 | 13,706 | — |
| 28 | Knowsley | 27 | saturated | 3 | 140 | 25,754 | 33% |
| 29 | Chorley | 27 | saturated | 3 | 250 | 19,622 | 80% |
| 30 | Burnley | 22 | saturated | 3 | 310 | 15,773 | 33% |
| 31 | Halton | 20 | saturated | 2 | 10 | 25,696 | 33% |
| 32 | Rossendale | 15 | saturated | 4 | 200 | 10,124 | 50% |
Where the clusters are
Across North West, Turkish restaurants cluster most heavily in these postcode districts: L1 (12), CH1 (8), PR1 (6), PR8 (6), M14 (6).