Cancel

Open app

Search

Alrayan

5.0 (1 review)
Closed 8:00 am - 2:00 AM (Next day)

Alrayan Photos

Recommended Reviews - Alrayan

Your trust is our priority, so businesses can't pay to alter or remove their reviews. Learn more about reviews.
Yelp app icon
Browse more easily on the app
Review Feed Illustration
Photo of Armen A.
378
12
2

10 years ago

Helpful 1
Thanks 0
Love this 0
Oh no 0

Verify this business for free

Get access to customer & competitor insights.

Verify this business

Haskral Kral Sofrası

Haskral Kral Sofrası

4.5(25 reviews)
3.7 kmİskenderpaşa Mh., İskender Paşa
₺₺

My family and I went here during a visit to Turkey and I don't know if it was because we were…read moreforeigners, but the service was top tier. I think Turkey is just on another level of treatment in terms of hospitality. Plus, food was amazing. Everything was delicious and healthy and the workers were extremely friendly and warm. Highly recommend if you're looking for a bit more upscale in the area!

I ate at this traditional Turkish restaurant when I went to Istanbul for work…read more There were about 40 of us in a long dining table and the service was pleasing and quick given that there were a lot of us and they had to take care of their other customers. Once seated, appetizers came right away: hummus, bread, pide, olives, and aubergine. For the main entree, there was this fall of the bone chicken with rice. It was a flashy eventful entrance for the chickens. They took out a cart that had three covered plates, lit it up, and then took down the covers. I couldn't really see because I was a bit far. But was it was quite a show! Then WALA. There was chicken inside. This chicken. I don't know how they made it, I'm guess it's salted-baked chicken but it was the softest and most fall of the bone chicken I've eaten. We also got the A Meter Pasa Kebab. Meter stick kebab is the dish to order. You won't be disappointed. Everyone in my table was quite entertained. To be frank, it was my first time seeing a kebab this long. The meat was tender, crunchy, and juicy. It's fall of the bone yummy too! The bread at the bottom of the meat seeped up all the juice which made it 10x tastier. For deserts, I had Kunefe, a traditional Turkish dessert made-up of cheese and drizzled with syrup, and Turkish tea. It tasted a bit tangy due to the orange blossom added to the syrup. Overall, I highly recommend this place! I am a fan. I'm definitely eating here again when I go back to Istanbul.

Photos
Haskral Kral Sofrası
Haskral Kral Sofrası
Haskral Kral Sofrası - Kunefe

See all

Kunefe

Taxim Park

Taxim Park

4.0(1 review)
0.1 kmHüseyinağa, Kuloğlu, Katip Mustafa Çelebi Mh., Beyoğlu

I'll be honest, I came here for the gay cruise scene and wasn't disappointed but I'm sad that as I…read morewrite this review that a monthly later (June 2016) Taksim was beset by the state police behaving like hoodlums firing rubber bullets and teargas on innocent participants in one of the rare GLBTQ pride parades that can be seen in a Muslim country (or even in Eastern Europe for that matter). Oh Turkey, you have a long way to go to enter the European Union if you exhibit such prejudices and having a nutcase claiming Islam as the reason to enter a gay club and murder 49 people in Orlando, Florida is not helping your case for inclusion. That said, the architecture, the variety of kiosks and booths to purchase food items or flowers or toys for the tots, the sound of prayers from the minerets and the boom of ocean trawlers out in the Bosphurus make this such a beautiful soulful place to visit. When it comes to the eye candy scene you don't often get to see Eritrean, Syrian and Albanian hustlers back to back.... and that's just the beginning. As with a multi-layered complex and sweet baklava, peel back one layer at a time and you're bound to encounter a United Nation's worth of hunky hirsute humanity all on the take.... or looking for a good time.... or both. Either way my sensory overload was pleased as punch! I went there from Sultanamet (the tourist zone on another peninsula of greater Istanbul; both are on the Euro side) via taxi but you could easily take the very clean subway. I'm looking forward to go back!

Photos
Taxim Park
Taxim Park

See all

Alrayan - syrian - Updated May 2026

Loading...
Loading...
Loading...