Dem shish is lovely! The staff are extremely attentive and couldn't of done more for me. I enjoyed the food and the atmosphere was fantastic and friendly. Would reccomend the... read more 'flaming cheese' for a wow factor starter!

  i have visited twice before, once for dinner and once for supper and t the food was excellent.
However tonight exceeded our expectations. The restaurant was busy, but service was... read more excellent and attentive without being fussy. The design of the restaurant makes it very comfortable. Looking forward to trying again, five star experience.

  Ordered from here even though I was suspicious of there being so many reviews lately that are all 5 star, I was proved right to be so.

Received a... read more take away that was nothing like described, wanted a kebab with rice and got a foil dish - be careful if you do order from here as these dishes have very sharp edges and I badly cut my thumb getting into this - and thought I'd got the wrong dish sent to me.

There were small rolls of some sort of meat, with bread wrapped around them, with tomato sauce soaked into the bread and half a cooked tomato in the dish.

There was no rice. It didn't taste good at all, not good quality and I was charged £12.90 for this?! What a rip off.

I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone.

  We had heard really good reports of Dem Shish Restaurant, and last night we decided to try it. We ordered Iskender Kebab x 2 . It arrived in less than... read more the quoted time , which was encouraging, and when we opened our food cartons we were very impressed by the quality and presentation of the contents . this included a selection of yoghurts, dips, and salads. The food was very fresh and beautifully cooked, and tasted absolutely delicious. Price was excellent value, considering the amount of food, the quality of the meats,(chicken, lamb, and lamb mince) and standard of cooking.We were left very satisfied with what we had. So much so, (wait for it!) we ordered the same again the following evening, and that was exactly as the first, which I think deserves points for consistency, a rare thing these days in the take away market. Well, I have to say, it looks like Dem Shish have gained a new regular customer, many thanks to the staff too!

  Heading into the restaurant we were greeted by a friendly smile, the Turkish welcome makes you feel at home.
We are regular visitors to Turkey, so the food was going... read more to be compared, and it certainly didn't disappoint.
The visit was for my daughters 6th birthday and my father in laws retirement, so a large party of 12.
Starters, mains and desserts were eaten.
The starters are all priced about £5.00 and for the quantity and quality well priced, but the mains priced between £14 to £20 stole the show.
Presentation was excellent, quality was good and the taste was sensational.
Deserts went down well, tasty and all about £5 Mark.
The kids were catered for with kids meals, ranging from smaller turkish dishes to burger and chips ( turkey style)
All of the food was served with a friendly smile.
The restaurant also caters for gluten free, and the menu was good and the food didn't disappoint.

The restaurant was a good size, clean, well presented and comfortable.

A little hidden gem, tucked out of the busy area of eastbourne, but a strong recommendation from us to visit, and will certainly be returning very soon.

Thank you dem shish.

  This was our first takeaway from Dem Shish. My partner and I hadn't tried Turkish Mediterranean style cuisine before, it isn't something we would normally consider for a takeaway but... read more my word we had been missing out because it was absolutely delicious!

I had a vegetarian selection, of hummus, falafel, grilled halloumi, and roasted veg, with a side order of Turkish bread and salad, so many glorious flavors!

My partner had a selection of grilled meats. mixed shish served with rices and vegetables, when I could get a word out of him, he said that the meat was incredibly tender and juicy and glorious. Both portions were incredibly generous and we were both pleasantly stuffed afterward!

The service was excellent, delivered promptly by a very friendly chap, and the food was well packaged and piping hot

This was a fantastic first experience, both of Dem Shish and of this style of cuisine, and my partner and I very much look forward to visiting in person once restrictions are lifted and trying more of this incredible food.

Thank you Dem Shish!

  Had a great evening here with a friend. The service was efficient and friendly, food was amazing and we finished with a couple of great cocktails. I would definitely recommend... read more and will be visiting again soon .

  We went there because of the good reviews that we had seen online, and we definitely were not disappointed! We ordered a variety of cold and hot mezzes and all... read more of them were amazing and very well presented. The chicken shish that I ordered for my main was simply delicious and it came with a wonderful salad! They have a great variety of wines and cocktails as well, which is always good if you go out with friends and fancy a couple of drinks after the meal.
Will definitely come back as the food and staff was simply superb.

  The food is fantastic and the service just as good. We had 1 starter and 2 mains and a pudding to share all were delicious. I recommend and I will... read more be going back

  I tried the food here and enjoyed it so much. It was delicious. I have begun to treat myself once a week by ordering food. Try it, I'm sure you... read more will be hooked like me.

  I ordered online through the restaurants own website - I first had to choose what time I wanted the takeaway delivered, which I've not seen on any other site and... read more it proved very annoying because at the end, when I'd filled in all the details it rejected my order the delivery time not available, it didn't keep all the information I'd already filled in, so I had to do everything all over again.

You can only pay either cash or Paypal, so I chose the latter because I wanted to keep safe social distance and stay safe but I was phoned after I'd placed my order to say part of it wasn't available and when I asked for a refund they said they'd send cash - not do it through Paypal and then the delivery man rang the doorbell, to give the cash back into my hand - totally wrong and he wasn't wearing a mask, so very worrying and very dangerous. Why wasn't the cash put into a bag instead?

The two main meals we'd chosen were both meant to come with rice but one dish had rice in the bottom of it but not the other.

We got two bags containing everything we'd ordered as we also got 3 different mezes and one of the bags, every dish in there had leaked, so oil and bright purple liquid went everywhere, so I had a lot of cleaning up to do whilst unpacking this order.

I had the Adana kebab and when I ate the first bite of the minced meat kebab I got a big piece of bone in it. I ate every mouthful carefully after that and found two more pieces of bone and several pieces of gristle.

Another person had the Beyti kebab - this looked a real mess and the person who ate it said it was ok but not very good and they were very disappointed not to have the rice in the dish as it was supposed to come with that - I gave them half of mine but this person loves rice and wasn't happy at all to be left without a favourite part of their dinner :((

Everything came in silver foil dishes with cardboard on top but not everything was labelled, so it was difficult to sort out who was meant to have what, we got one dish of white yogurt - no idea which dish this was meant to go with as not on menu. My salad was carrot, tomato and cucumber and red cabbage that had a very vinegary taste and wasn't nice.

The secuk was described as spicy Turkish sausage and we got four slices on some lettuce, it wasn't very spicy and was a bit on the dry side, we wouldn't order again.

Also got Ali Nazik which was described as aubergine puree with yogurt and mixed peppers - I couldn't taste aubergine at all, I used the bread plonked on top on my kebab to eat with it as it was too strong on its own.

A warm meze was sigara boregi - "crispy" pastry filled with cheese and spinach, we got 4 rolls, the pastry had softened due to the way it was packed and there was white stuff at one end of the dish also making it more soggy on one end, they were disappointing as not much taste to them.

Our order came to £39.60 and we felt it was very overpriced for what we got, especially the beyti kebab £12.90 which was not as expected at all and certainly not worth the price charged.

I have tried to add photos to my review but, unusually, none are being allowed to upload to this restaurant.

  This is the first time we have tried Dem Shish
We walked past the other day and took away a menu
We have just finished feasting on the takeaway that... read more was delivered hot and in good time
The chicken and meat was freshly cooked , good quality and tender.
The rice was sumptuous.
We were really happy with everything and look forward to visiting when it is allowed to open its doors.

Dr Bashir