Open a Turkish restaurant in South West
Thinking of opening a Turkish restaurant in South West? We compare all 26 councils in the region on one table. The region has 178 Turkish restaurants in total, with roughly 43,566 monthly searches across councils with known volume. 68% of the 121 rated Turkish restaurants here hold a 5-star food hygiene rating. On demand score, the three best-placed councils are Bristol, City of (driven by search demand), Plymouth (driven by search demand), Cornwall (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.
Bristol is the South West's only real city market and until recently it was mis-counted in our data; the corrected picture is a compact cluster in the BS1 centre and along Gloucester Road, with the rest of a city of nearly half a million barely served. Bath, Exeter and Plymouth each have a small cluster tied to their centres and universities. Dorset, Cornwall and Wiltshire show high search demand relative to supply, but that demand is seasonal and spread across coastal towns, so the viable format is a takeaway with a summer trade or a restaurant in a year-round town such as Salisbury or Trowbridge. Hygiene scores in the region are generally good, and the competitive pressure is low almost everywhere outside Bristol.
Turkish Restaurants UK Editorial Team — updated 2026-09-04
Every council in South West
| # | Council | Demand score | Verdict | Turkish restaurants | Monthly searches | Residents/restaurant | Hygiene-5 share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Bristol, City of | 89 | underserved | 18 | 8,460 | 22,498 | 64% |
| 02 | Plymouth | 82 | underserved | 6 | 2,250 | 29,410 | 25% |
| 03 | Cornwall | 82 | underserved | 8 | 3,630 | 51,845 | 100% |
| 04 | Dorset | 81 | underserved | 14 | 7,460 | 22,328 | 100% |
| 05 | Bath and North East Somerset | 78 | underserved | 6 | 1,620 | 21,490 | — |
| 06 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 73 | underserved | 24 | 3,230 | 14,822 | 63% |
| 07 | East Devon | 70 | balanced | 2 | 1,381 | 30,165 | 67% |
| 08 | Teignbridge | 69 | balanced | 2 | 1,234 | 26,962 | 50% |
| 09 | Wiltshire | 64 | balanced | 35 | 5,360 | 13,430 | 67% |
| 10 | South Hams | 58 | balanced | 1 | 811 | 22,156 | 100% |
| 11 | Exeter | 54 | balanced | 4 | 710 | 18,672 | 50% |
| 12 | Gloucester | 54 | balanced | 4 | 700 | 18,917 | 100% |
| 13 | South Gloucestershire | 54 | balanced | 9 | — | 24,202 | 67% |
| 14 | Swindon | 50 | balanced | 12 | 1,010 | 15,561 | 71% |
| 15 | North Somerset | 50 | balanced | 6 | — | 24,081 | 50% |
| 16 | Mid Devon | 49 | balanced | 2 | 758 | 16,571 | — |
| 17 | Torbay | 48 | balanced | 8 | 960 | 12,666 | 86% |
| 18 | North Devon | 48 | balanced | 4 | 903 | 14,087 | 33% |
| 19 | Torridge | 47 | balanced | 1 | 624 | 17,028 | 100% |
| 20 | West Devon | 47 | balanced | 0 | 523 | 19,034 | — |
| 21 | Cheltenham | 43 | balanced | 4 | 530 | 16,977 | 100% |
| 22 | Forest of Dean | 42 | balanced | 2 | 510 | 17,400 | 100% |
| 23 | Cotswold | 33 | saturated | 4 | 532 | 12,977 | 67% |
| 24 | Stroud | 28 | saturated | 1 | 200 | 30,276 | 100% |
| 25 | Tewkesbury | 24 | saturated | 1 | 170 | 23,722 | — |
| 26 | Isles of Scilly | 2 | saturated | 0 | — | 685 | — |
Where the clusters are
Across South West, Turkish restaurants cluster most heavily in these postcode districts: SN1 (8), BS7 (6), BH8 (6), BS23 (5), BS1 (5).