This spot is very popular and serves what I'd call elevated home cooking with good sized portions…read moreat a reasonable price. The dining room area is nice and service is friendly. It's close to town and my cousin's place and I like their dishes. I especially like that I can see the meats on display.

Saray is a popular Turkish Imbiss/Restaurant I have been to couple of times in Zentrum. Obviously,…read moreit is one class below compared to Turkish Restaurants that serve very good quality Turkish, Kurdish and Arabic food and specialties in Mülheim (Cologne) such as Kilim or Mevlana. Still, from what I remember, Saray served tasty pides, very salty, garlicky and standard mezes and huge and tasty portions kebab platters for reasonable prices. The primary reason why I stopped eating at Saray was not the terrible brunch (or better call it an open-buffet composed of unrelated food such as saggy french fries, day-old simits, cheese and haydari) experience I had, but was the rude treatment of the owner or whoever behind the counter on a quiet and lazy Sunday morning. That person literally scolded us loudly in front of everyone for placing our plates on the counter despite we first consulted to waiters with good intentions. He was so rude and mean that he even scolded the waiters afterwards, indeed without apologizing to us. Given the standard "Turkish" food they serve and bad service and treatment you get, I recommend foodies not to eat there unless they are really close to starvation or all other Turkish Imbisses in Bonn are somehow closed. P. S.: The bathroom is clean but always too cold for some reason.

We happened to find this place walking around Bonn on Boxing Day. Unlike English speaking…read morecountries, German is mostly shut on Boxing Day and it was quite an effort to find any cafes or restaurants open for lunch. This one happened to be and we decided go give it a try. It's a Mediterranean / Turkish cafe / bar with lots of small plates and things. As it is directly opposite the theatre it probably gets a lot of pre show and post show audiences. They have a massive mezze bar with tons of choices to pick from. For €12 you can get a plate of 8 different Mezze and you can either go to the counter and make your own choices or ask the staff for a surprise plate. We decided to share one of these for lunch and it was really good. I also had a lentil soup and that was nice and flavourful. They also served nice turkish bread with the food. Service here is quite friendly and prompt. As I could not find this business on Yelp I have set it up. Not sure how long this place has been there but some of the stuff they have has Opera Bar printed on them. I would happily come back here any day. I love Mezze plates and could happily eat it every day :-)

Serhat is a mediocre Turkish Imbiss in a central location in Zentrum, literally by the bus and tram…read morestop Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz. It is often unventilated and gloomy inside. In addition, the decoration is as kitsch as it could get. In terms of food, sigara boregi was tasty. Iskender was not even close to a real iskender and contained garlic, as opposed to the original. Baklava was not tasty and you could taste the bad quality and the artificialness of the syrup they used. Indeed the tea they serve at the end is a nice and traditional gesture. Still, it was not enough to convince me to eat at Serhat again while I have many other and better options of its kind in Bonn and Cologne.

Botan is a small Turkish/Kurdish Imbiss in Poppelsdorf, right across Poppelsdorfer Schloss and by…read morethe bus stop Am Botanischen Garten. Even though the place is always tight, hot and claustrophobic inside, it has very nice "Biergarten-like" seats outside. You can also watch the soccer games on a large flat screen TV inside, though you should expect to feel like packed-sardines on such occasions, especially at weekends. :) In terms of food, it is THE BEST place to have falafel, be it a dürüm or sandwich. I think its döner, which I believe is not 100% Kalbfleisch but mixture of turkey and calf, is not the best in town but still edible with the tasty sauces Botan offers. Same applies to lahmacuns; they taste good but there is always little amount of meat on top and the dough is never crispy but edible with condiments and sauces. They also serve pizzas, böreks and pommes but I have never tried any of those. Even though the number of condiments is limited and the quality of them is questionable from the sloppy cuts, Botan serves THE BEST home-made hot sauce in town, along with home-made (and very thick and garlicky) tzatziki and thick, sweet cocktail sauce. I even witnessed one old German couple coming to Botan just to ask for one bowl of that hot sauce, pro-bono. :) Also, the owner and the staff are very friendly guys who always insist you to have a cup of tea with them if they are not busy of course. :) Overall, I strongly recommend Botan for those (especially students) who aim to get full with tasty (and often or inevitably garlicky) food for a very reasonable price. I believe sitting outside or getting your food to-go will double the pleasure you get out of your food. :)