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    Aksaray Turkish Cafe Restaurant

    3.6 (156 reviews)
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    Moderate noise
    Dogs allowed
    Good for kids

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    Kseniya K.

    Very unassuming looking, hole in a wall café that surprises with great flavors. The prices are very reasonable and portions filling, so you will leave full and not broke. Always a lot of people eating in/getting take out, so you know the food is fresh. Service is respectful. You won't be rushed to finish your meal, even when you're taking a long time to talk with your friends over one bowl of lentil soup. The, Lentil soup $5, by the way, is hearty and a great choice for colder months. Shephard's pie [$5, $7 medium, $10 large] is simple, just tomatoes, cucumbers, and feta, so I'd skip because I can make better myself, but if you're craving a simple salad, this could work. The turkish bread become stale quickly, so I prefer their pitas [complementary for meat dishes]. Calves Liver $10 portion is not big, more to tease your appetite. Pretty well done if you enjoy liver. Babaghanous $5 is delicious--one of the best in all Brooklyn, definitely get it. Mixed grill karisik $24, the most expensive item on the menu, is good to share for two, if you're also getting appetizers in addition. The portion includes rice, cabbage salad, a haljapeno, gyro, adana kebab, and shish kebab. The meats are well prepared, so any meat lover will be happy with this choice.

    Clearly can see where I have no tomato requested in 2 areas.
    Dana A.

    I'm incredibly disappointed with todays order. They have a modification section that lets you select things to remove off of the sandwich and a notes section as well. I made sure to click their modification to remove tomatoes as well as the extra step of putting it in the note because I have a tomato allergy and they still put it in. Thankfully I saw it before biting it which would have been very dangerous.

    Ruslan V.

    Good red lentil soup. Shawarma salt.( Need more white sauce ) Clean please. Good Turkish tea

    Linda D.

    We haven't been in here in a while but it was a pleasant surprise. The establishment had made updates and changes and its sitting area increased 2X. The establishment was clean, the staff was extremely polite and friendly. The food as always was fresh and tasty; and right portion. The prices are very reasonable.

    Dry/not fresh? absolutely disgusting lahmacun without salad which they forgot to put in my order

    Just received my order. Big disappointment. They didn't put salad (tomatoes onions parsley cabbage, lemon) which goes to lahmacun and when I called they refused to bring it and offered free salad next time :) Thank you but no. Also ketchup packs were dirty with ketchup and sugar from baklava. I tried to eat lahmacun without salad and it was not eatable at all. Pitas for babaganush and haydari were not fresh. Chicken sandwich also had weird taste. This order will definitely turn me off Turkish food for a while:/ Update. Just tried baklava. I hope at least this would be good! But no! It tastes like it boiled and row instead of backed and crispy!! Wow! Just wow! All order. Literally all order went to the garbage

    Yummy lentil soup and bread!
    Sandra G.

    This spot stays open 24/7!!!! They also have a lunch special during the day! Their bread is amazing! I love their lentil soup!!! I've tried other dishes but my go to is their lentil soup! The staff are always pleasant!

    Chicken Soup [B+]: Reminds me of Avgolemono without lemon.
    Peter S.

    Chicken Soup: B+ Slightly tangy, almost like Avgolemono. Very slightly spicy. Made from chicken breast and rice. It's almost a creamy soup. Reminds me of Avgolemono without lemon.

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    8 months ago

    Delicious food! We often order from here and are always satisfied! It's one of our favorite places! The staff is also very nice.

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    A to Z this place is disappointment. Such a unprofessional staff. If you wanna talk about the food it is a big waste.

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    This place was so dirty. I couldn't understand that how health department let them serve any food here. I think stay away!!

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    One of the worst Turkish food I have ever tried. They even don't know how to make salad. I Don't recommend this place at all.

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    Great food and a local gem. If you crave meat off a skewer charred to perfection still juicy and…read morenot cooked to hell and back this is the place for you. Great service and in an upscale environment then this is the spot. Prices are a bit on the higher side but you're paying for quality.

    I have been coming to Taci's Beyti since 2013 and frequented it a lot when I lived in Brooklyn but…read morenow moving to Queens for the past few years I still make the trip over 2-3 times a year. The quality of their food has always been top notch and honestly is my favorite spot for a Turkish meal. Their hummus and basically all their skewers, kababs and grilled meats are simply amazing. Fast forward, I haven't gone to Taci's Beyti for over a year and I just recently went for our anniversary dinner over the weekend. Place still felt the same, so I ordered my hummus, mixed grill and the chicken kebab for the misses. When The entrees arrived, I was a bit disappointed. They seem to have changed what use to come with their main entrees. Gone is the bed of thinly sliced onions under your meats, so is the roasted pepper and also the roasted tomato. Three items I actually enjoyed having with my entree. They also changed the pita under the meats as well but they replaced it with a very sad salad instead, with no dressing or even a vinaigrette at that. Just plain dry leaves with some red onions. They also have two prices now, one for cash and one for credit, the cost has gone up (which I understand) but they've also cut the portions and what use to come with it. Yes the food is still good but after that last trip I am rethinking about ever going back. I am disappointed that either through choice, greed, or whatever they decided to cut back. Time to scout and try some other Turkish restaurants in the boroughs I suppose, and no I am not leaving a one star review, their food quality and taste hasn't changed. I am just very disappointed.

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    4.0 miBay Ridge

    I could make this restaurant a weekly habit. The employees provide excellent customer attention…read more The small footprint of Bayridge Turkish Cafe doesn't compromise cleanliness or comfort. Our minimal menu exploration was adequately rewarding. This restaurant delivers well.

    Have you ever seen the misadventures of Nedim Sahin, the guy who went viral with videos at his…read moreBaruthane Pilavcisi restaurants? He claimed to taste the first spoonful of each new batch of food to ensure that it meets his mom's standards. There is a well-known Turkish proverb he quotes from - "pilavdan dönenin kaşığı kırılsın". In literal translation it's "break the cooking spoon of the pilaf maker who falters in its task". It's understood as either "see it though come hell or high water" or "bring your A-game or don't bother showing up". Eh, I wonder if the guy who served me this kofte platter at BayRidge Turkish cafe has ever heard the quote? When it came to Turkish food, certain items are universally loved, like çorba (soup) and kofte (meatballs). Çorba has such an elevated status that a commander of the Ottoman elite military corps (Janassary) is known as a çorbaci (soup man). Even today, the term is used in modern Turkish slang as "boss". There's an old saying in Turkish that the best kofte is made by your mom, but the best çorba is from the local kebab joint. What makes for good Turkish kofte? It's supposed to be fluffy juicy pillows of meat the size of say, a mini Snickers bar, made with ground beef and sometimes lamb, with some diced lamb tail fat whipped into the mixture, seasoned with sweet and savory spices like cumin, mint, coriander, mace and such, then grilled over coals. In Turkey the usual service is with a bowl of buttery Turkish lentil soup (often accompanied by their bread), ice cold Ayran, piyaz (navy bean salad), then kofte fresh off the grill, and maybe some rice pilaf (buttery rice with bits of toasted orzo within) on the side. Who does a good version in Brooklyn? Kofte Piyaz in Sunset Park - it ain't cheap, though. So what is up with this 15 dollar kofte platter I got at Bayridge cafe? Well, the size of the kofte is odd, like breakfast sausages (my wife is much less charitable on the comparison and said it looked like something from a kitty litter box). It tasted dry and shriveled up, with no flavor at all, like it was air fried once too many. The iceberg lettuce and tomato salad that came on the side just bleeds off the mediocrity. The rice is just white rice and not pilaf. The inexplicable part is when they serve up lentil soup and gave us slices of American white bread. Not toasted, not buttered, and certainly not Turkish bread. Me and my wife bursted out laughing. The soup is...serviceable, but it certainly won't make any Ottoman Sultan dance for joy or fuel warriors into battle - it tasted flat (the version that I make has tomato and pepper paste, onions, garlic and dried mint...which this didn't have) and we didn't see the usual shaker of aleppo (pul) peppers for sprinkling onto the soup to give it a kick. The bean stew that we ordered (Kuru Fasulye) was watery and without much distinctive flavors. So, eh, is this place bad per-se? Not really. Despite the disappointing kofte, it comes with a small bit of eggplant salad that was honestly not too bad. The Turkish tea was on-point (well, they used Caykur Tomurcuk, which is a Turkish Earl Grey grade) and they used a double boiler to do the tea, which means that it's legitly brewed in the Turkish fashion with the right flavors. The Tulumba wasn't nearly as good as, say...Safa in Istanbul, but it isn't a disappointingly soggy mess like the ones at Djerdan Borek or coyingly sweet with salad oil stench like the ones at Artion bakery in Astoria. It was like how you imagine a good churro would be - warm, not too oily, sweet but not too much so. Crisp exterior, honeyed interior, goes well with a cup of hot tonic Turkish tea, served strong and fragrant. So yeah, it's not hopeless. But geez, guys, save your wonderbread for the American sandwiches and toss pitas or Turkish bread with your Turkish fares, and talk to your mom about serving up proper kofte. I can excuse the soup but that kofte is a travesty. Köftedan dönenin isgaralar kırılsın - either make something worthwhile or don't bother at all.

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