Kebap House — Attraction in Şişli

Came upon this place by chance. After the aggressive marketing campaign you receive when walking down the streets in this area, you gotta choose some place.

ATMOSPHERE: Indoor seating, decor is plain & simple with ultra bright white lights, and outdoor cafe style seating.

MENU: All kinds of kebabs.

FOOD: Chicken Wings 7 wings very lightly seasoned and barbecued. Chicken was slightly crispy and tender inside. Came with sides of some kind of yellow risotto, grilled tomato & pepper, pickled radishes and another veggie conviction which I didn't eat.

Chicken Chops 4 pieces of boneless & skinless thighs barbecued with a subtle salt flavor. Chicken was tender & crispy.

Spicy Kebab The one bite I had was delish. It's an oddly even shaped long piece of barbecued boneless beef.

SERVICE: Our server Omar was great and spoke pretty good English.

OVERALL: Good food and great prices. Remember that the Turkish lira is about 50 cents to the US dollar so...

My family had dinner there tonight. The food quality was less respected. Did you ever have a cold bread served in Istanbul? Further, no meats tasted fresh. There were many Kebab restaurants where the BBQ were warm and fresh cooked. However, this one does not belong to them. In the bill, I saw a 12 lt addition. The waiter told me that it was TAX. Later I recognise, no other restaurants put such TAX in the bill. If yes, they wrote clearly it was service fee. Even worse, waiter did not bring me 20 Lt change back, which I realised after home. They do not serve many types of food. All foods look like average or lower quality. But there were several international tourists teams in this restaurant. Possibly it is designed in purpose to fool stupid foreign tourists.

I will never...

Awful experience. Cost nearly 375 per person for reheated and awful food. We wanted to have dinner at a local place for our last day in Istanbul and believed the fake rating on here. Nothing was fresh and I felt sick after just nibbling on the food we ordered. It would have been fine but they charge more than five star hotels I ate at during the trip. Wasn't worth the 20 minute walk...