Halikarnas

Halikarnas takes its name from the ancient Greek port of Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum on the Turkish Aegean) and runs as the main late-night hybrid takeaway on St Andrew Street, the cross-street that connects King Street to Market Hill in central Castle Douglas. The shop is takeaway-only, with no dining area, and runs a notably broad menu off a single kitchen — fish-and-chip-shop classics (battered fish, sausage, haggis, pies and chips), pizza, kebabs and burgers — which is unusual breadth even for this region. Reviewers across TripAdvisor, Restaurant Guru and Yably pick out the special kebab, the doner and the chip-shop fish as the consistent draws; one long-running TripAdvisor review describes the special kebab as "probably one of the best I've had anywhere in the UK". Halikarnas Scotland Limited is registered at Companies House, indicating a settled limited-company operation rather than a short-term takeover. The shop trades into mid-evening every weekday and stays open into the early hours on Friday and Saturday — one of the very few Castle Douglas hot-food options that does — which makes it the natural last-stop on a weekend night for both the resident catchment and the holiday traffic passing through the food-town centre. Open seven nights a week.