What a place! was our first thought. The sealing was decorated with branches and orient fabrics,…read morethe tables was so low that you had to sit on the ground, and lamps casted a warm golden light in the room as for the rest was dark and intimate. The plates were Turkish and had beautiful patterns in dark colors. Everything was beautiful, coarse and moody.
But then there was the food, which just took away all the extra points from the interior. It felt indifferent, plain and bland. And it is a really bad sign when you hear the microwave go on just before your food is being served. How can a turkish restaurant serve bad hummus? It tasted like one of these you can by on can. Further on, a good restaurants never serves food on iceberg lettuce, I mean, com on, it tastes just as horrible as it's look. Secondly, WHY do we get a portion of these frozen, yellow-white fries that you buy on supermarket?
Ottoman has great potential. But they need to improve the food and make it passionately and with elegance as good Middle East food are meant to be.