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Killer Kebab is the unlikely child of an old friendship and a global pandemic.

Like it happened to many others, the first lockdown left us considering what we wanted to do with our lives.

These deliberations led to dreams of global surfing adventures and a somewhat promising academic career being put on hold, in favour of opening a kebab shop.

But we did not want to open just any run-of-the-mill kebab shop – rather, we wanted to make the best possible kebab – a truly Killer Kebab, where no corners are cut and everything is made fresh to order

That’s why we, although we had absolutely no experience with serving kebab, decided to make everything ourselves; no minced meat shawarma or dry tasteless bread at Killer Kebab!

 

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Instead we would go the extra mile by making everything ourselves – marinating and building our own meat and always baking our fluffy sourdough flatbreads fresh to order.

There was just one problem – we had absolutely no idea what we were doing! Neither of us ever worked in a kebab shop or built a shawarma, and our combined knowledge of sourdough bread making amounted to 6 weeks of experimenting during the first Danish corona lockdown. In other words, we had to teach ourselves everything.

Our first attempts at building kebabs resulted in something that looked more like meat Christmas trees, than shawarmas, but we and our guests agreed that the taste was exceptional and we knew we were onto something special.

However, we did not make it easy for ourselves. Not only did we open on the 1st of September 2020, between the the two Danish corona lockdowns, we also opened in a quiet side street in Copenhagen’s historic red light district.

But even though the beginning was slow, we kept on going, believing, that if we just stuck to our guns and ensured every guest had a truly killer kebeb experience, sooner or later we would get super busy.

 

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And apparently we were right! Slowly, but steadily we got busier, as our ’ “Copenhagen Style” kebab built a loyal following of foodies and kebab konnaisseurs.

Critical acclaim followed in early 2021 with positive reviews published in the national newspapers Politiken, Jyllands-Posten (link) and Børsen (link) and of course, Berlingske Tidende (Link) who in their 6-star review gave Killer Kebab the title as Copenhagen’s Best Kebab in their most recent kebab survey.

Following these great reviews, the second location opened in downtown Copenhagen in early August 2022. Going from one to two shops was exciting, and soon the second location was battling the first to be the busiest, so we knew we had to add more locations. First though, in early 2023 we were invited to open within Parken, the Danish national stadium and home of FC Copenhagen.

Since then we have added a new shop every 6 months or so, including locations on Nørrebro, Frederiksberg and most recently our biggest store yet at the Fisketorvet mall, and in early 2025, were adding a new location on Christianshavn Torv, which will will raise our total to 7 locations.

And although we now have more than 30 employees we still both do many shifts behind the bar across the stores, to ensure that we still serve a truly Killer Kebab, so please say hello the next time you visit.

-Adam & Ulv