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Kestane Kebab

3.6 (280 reviews)
InexpensiveTurkish, Middle Eastern
Closed • 11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Updated over 3 months ago

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What's the vibe?
Moderate noise
Casual
Outdoor seating
Good for groups

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Chicken & Lamb kebab platter
Farrah B.

My friend and I love going out to eat lunch or dinner at local places, and this is the first one we've vowed to return to. The space itself is lovely, filled with small touches of a far away place. The staff is bustling, as the space is a mix of dine-in, takeout, and delivery. We both were drooling at the photos of the juicy kebabs, so we got the mixed platter, filled with well seasoned, tender cuts of lamb & chicken, fragrant rice pilaf, salad and pickled cabbage. Homemade bread hit the table with tea, and my friend snagged a potato salad. We ended up eating until we wobbled, and still had leftovers. I'm still thinking about that rice pilaf....

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Angel A.

Not bad for a quick lunch- Turkish style. Had a chicken with pita and it got the spot. Definitely will pass by if I'm around.

Red Lentil Soup

I love this soup, they are always so nice n very fast. The restaurant be so pretty inside n should definitely try this restaurant

Mixed Grill
Priscilla R.

Was craving kebabs and they did not disappoint. Everything was seasoned and made to perfection! Already recommended this place to a lot of people too.

Pita instead of their delicious Turkish bread. This is what you get if you order through Uber eats buyer beware.

Terrible. Been ordering here for years. I ordered through Uber eats for the first time tonight and this restaurant gave me stale pita bread with my baba ganoush. When I called to ask the restaurant if they were no longer making their delish Turkish bread the woman on the phone told me "not when ordering through Uber eats because costs are too high". We're talking about bread so how can I trust the quality of any of their food if they change the type of bread based on the app you order through. She was very unapologetic and rude. Told me she didn't know who I was and didn't care how long I've been coming there. I will never order from here again. Side note, saw someone posted about food poisoning just three months ago. Not surprised. I threw out my order after my conversation with the restaurant and seeing that review.

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Brock B.

Very delicious real Turkish food. Highly recommended. Lentil soup was exactly like I had in Turkey.

Babaganoush

Went to this place for Lunch yesterday. Baba Ghanoush 10/10 Mixed Grill 8/10 Service 10/10

Best middle eastern food in the neighborhood! The baked eggplant is delicious!! Also loved the hummus, babaghanoush and kebabs. Service 10/10!!

Salmon Shish Kebab Fried Liver Cubes Red Lentil Soup Beet Salad  Kazandibi  Spinach Pastry Roll
Chah L.

Likes - lentil soup and kazandibi delicious - good foods - close to train and citi bike - nice neighborhood Dislikes - spinach rolls to salty

Terrible

Honestly the food here sucks and its pretty scary inside. Went on a friday night. Customer service is good.

Lamb Shish & Chicken Shish
Rohan K.

Nice quiet spot in Greenpoint for Middle Eastern food. Got the chicken and lamb kabab plate.

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Incredible food and people. Some of the best stuffed grape leaves in the city. Love their lamb gyro as well.

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This place become better again, love the Chicken Shish Kebab. Orders arrive fast, and food is hot

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10/10. I've only ordered take-out from here but the food is always so consistent and delicious!

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We stopped into Tava around 3 in the afternoon for a late lunch. The restaurant was nearly empty at…read morethat hour and we received lots of great attention from the staff. The ambience is comfortable. The tables are a comfortable distance apart, something you don't often find in places in Brooklyn. We sat down and our server promptly offered us water and menus. It was one of the really cold day in early February and I ordered Lentil soup. It really hit the spot-both nice and warm and tasty. My wife and I shared the other dishes that included a superb mixed appetizer plate with really delicious baba ghanoush, humus, labneh and other middle eastern delights. The grilled calamari was a really nice surprise. We typically order fried calamari, our server suggested the grilled. The calamari was tender, sweet and truly delicious. Finally, we shared the Mediterranean sea bass that was also excellent. The fish was very good with a wonderful light sauce. All around a wonderful experience at a reasonable price.

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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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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.

Kestane Kebab - turkish - Updated May 2026

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