Where to eat TÜRKIYE 🇹🇷 Bern: Can Grillhaus

Can Grillhaus

Murtenstrasse 41, Bern

Published October 15, 2025 · by Amanda Rivkin Häsler

What we ordered: For three people, one shepherd's salad, one mixed grill plate, one spicy Adana kebab plate and seven 30cl Hopfenperle beers.

Cost: 119 CHF / €127 / $149

Can Grillhaus is a lovely family-friendly neighborhood spot with a patio and outdoor charcoal grill. We went on a hot summer night and despite fatigue, we were not weighed down by heavy food and instructed out of over-ordering, for the plates come with a fairly full meze spread. 

For three people, the option to split a mixed grill plate and add an additional Adana kebab proved to be perfect. While this was not adventure eating per se, rather it was standard staples of the Turkish culinary repertoire cooked to perfection. It might not be the sort of meal you write home about but nor was it a meal that could offer much to complain about. 

The service was also warm and friendly. The chef came out to greet us and send warm regards. The Adana kebab, while billed as spicy, was not so much, and the lamb chop and chicken and lamb shashlik were perfectly tender. The shepherd's salad had a proper seasoning blend and was very fresh as well.

Surrounding the grill items was the meze spread with labne and ezme as well as the red ajvar that's popular across the Balkans as well from the Ottoman period. Served with rice and Turkish flat bread, ideal for scooping everything up, we absolutely cleaned both plates, leaving but a few grains of Turkish rice alone on the plate. The usual grilled pepper garnish rounded out the plates nicely.

While we sat outside, the interior had the sort of traditional Anatolian décor of a road house or traditional restaurant anywhere in Turkey: carpets, evil eyes, mosaic glass lamps and some kitschy touches for extra coziness. As we went not so long before closing, there were but a few other tables occupied but we did not close the restaurant as others lingered and looked like they would stay awhile long after we left.

Before leaving, when it came to request the check, as is Turkish custom, we were served Turkish tea in the little tulip-shaped glasses that could define a country and its culture in the absence of anything else. They brought us each a piece of pistachio and honey baklava, layered softly.

As an option near the rail station, the food was overall fresh, affordable and the service friendly. Online it's the highest rated Turkish restaurant in Bern. It is not hard to see why.

How to get to Türkiye from Switzerland: 

By car, it is over a day to drive from Switzerland through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria before arriving in Türkiye.

By rail and bus, it is a nearly two-day odyssey from Switzerland to Türkiye through Munich, Germany; Prishtina, Kosovo; Skopje, North Macedonia and Sofia, Bulgaria before arriving in Türkiye.

By plane is much easier, with Ajet, Pegasus and Turkish Airlines all offering numerous nonstop routes daily at rock bottom prices between Geneva or Zürich and Istanbul. Routes on to Ankara from Geneva or Zürich are routed through Istanbul airports.

How many Turks are in Switzerland: Around 73,000

Distance between Bern and Ankara: 2,764 km

Distance Can Grillhaus to Ankara: 2,763 km

Learn how to make Türkiye's national dish, Adana kebab, and about its origins.

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