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We had such a wonderful dining experience here! The home-made bread with butter, the meze platter, and the main course – truly the King of Turkish – were all absolutely delicious. The dessert with a whole pear was both unique and beautifully presented. Special thanks to Ata, Fares, and Yusuf for their warm and attentive service. They not only recommended great cocktails and helped us take lovely photos. Thank you for making our evening so memorable!

We had an amazing 7 course tasting menu. Our server was a perfect gentleman and we had the opportunity to meet the chef after dinner. He is a former engineer who takes his food very seriously. If you are a true foodie, this place is for you.

A quiet restaurant playing slow background music, very nice ambience with bricks design roof. The service staff ATA, rendered great service. Impeccable! Ingredients were kind of simple with a boost of flavours. I did not even see a single prawn from the plates. Nothing fanciful on the Ingredients used. The taste and sauce prepared was good. The restaurant is more of an ambience and services orientated place.

Food was incredible!! Very sophisticated, with a lot of different flavors throughout the 5 or 7 courses. This restaurant gives you a more "fancy" level of Turkish food. There is even a vegetarian choice. The restaurant's food portions were perfect. The service was on point. Very nice waiters. They where incredibly efficient and professional. The atmosphere was very calm with relaxing Turkish music in the background. We had a lot of space around the table. The price might seem exaggerated at first, but don't be fooled because once we eat all the courses you will be happy for paying the price at the end. Trust me !

I really wanted to love this place, but ultimately found it over priced, with spotty service, and while the food tasted good, it made the 3/4 of us sick. Environs: generally in line with what I would expect for this level of dining, except for the music, which was very loud. They kindly turned it down, but it was still pretty loud. Service. Very kind, warm, and responsive! The English descriptions during the courses were tough, but hey its not the first language here so shame on me for not speaking Turkish. Front of the house was attentive, although one of the staff was quite potent smelling, enough to know when he was coming, or if he had been there. The amuse bouche took about 40 minutes to get to us. For a 7 course meal, I expect to be someplace for 2.5-3 hours, we were there for four. It was strange that the mâitre d' went to the other 3 tables in the restaurant, but not ours. Combined with the food poisoning, and slow service, I was pretty disappointed. The cuisine was interesting, complex, had good nods to local contexts, was generally satisfying. The pairings made sense, but there werent enough wines to match each course, and the timing was a bit off with the service, ending up with alot of glasses on the table. 7 wines for 7 courses might have landed better. The amuse bouche was definitely a nod to the chefs talents, but was the size of a first course! I enjoyed it, but would have rather had more traditional portion in 10 minutes than an hour after seating. Some of the dishes were fantastic! The sweetbreads and fava beans were noteworthy! The poached pear for dessert was underwhelming, but appropriately light due to heavy nature of previous courses. All that said, I am grumpier because most of us got sick. Honestly, we had better over all dining experiences at less than 1/10th the price and I have a hard time recommending this place, and do not intend to return. There are a lot of good reviews so maybe we caught them on a bad day. Its a tough business.