Best Istanbul Restaurant

Twice I came and just got wraps to go, but both times the ingredients, the meats, the flavor is so good. Great portion size. Hope to come and spend some time with some more people and explore the menu.

Freshly made, got a half chicken and half cheese pide , it was crunchy and oozy lacked some salt and spice but hit my cheese cravings. Also got the adnana kebab with bulgur well spiced meat and bulgur. Would come back for that and its very nice that we get complimentary fresh salad, yogurt mint and spicy pepper sauce.

Staff is friendly and very traditional. Meat is good, shish kebab beef is perfect!
Meal for 2 won’t hurt your wallet too much and keep you satisfied. You will come again for sure.

I would dine here a lot more frequently but I don’t out of principle. Not offering tap water is absolutely silly both from cost perspective but also sustainability reasons. Great food but this type of business practice is rare for a good reason in the city.

Edit: Gave it another shot and bringing this down to a 1 star. Asking for a medium rare steak and getting the attached pic instead is… well leave it to you to judge. Prices have gone up again and portion sizes reduced.

AMAZING FOOD & SERVICE!!!🔥
Tried this place a year ago via skip the dishes, then happened to be in Toronto today and was wishing for that same good food experience. Thankfully skip keeps a record of all past orders coz I couldn’t remember the place to save my life.

Found it, went to dine in and the place is cute and clean… very important… even the washroom was clean and I used it thrice being pregnant and all.

Ordered something I didn’t have the last time just to be adventurous and they did not disappoint. Beef shish was hella tender, flavorful and juicy. Bulgur so soft and delish. Dessert was perfect and different (kunefe), never ever had something like that before and I ate it all lol.

Everyone working there was courteous, attentive and efficient. Will definitely be back when in the city again and will be spreading the word… including sharing this testament.

Go try it out!

Meats were ALL good! We got the mix plate for two and it was more than enough to feed us three people. They use charcoal to cook the meats which makes a huge difference as it gives that distinct charcoal flavour. We also had the lentil soup and that was good. Service was prompt and friendly

One critique I have is, for a dine-in restaurant they do not serve "free" water, you have to buy their bottled water.

We ordered Adana kebab, Turkish sausage pide. Both were decent in taste, I've had pides at other places and they offer onions, chilli's, lemon, tabouli or sauces with it but here they give you nothing. I feel the restaurants should offer water as a courtesy here they want me to pay $3 for a 500ml bottle of water. The restaurant needs proper ambience, you don't feel like it's a Turkish restaurant and the worst thing was there were many mosquitoes and flies roaming when we were eating. That's a big no no. So maybe they should invest into keeping the restaurant clean and provide better customer service.