Terrible experience!!!! I was in a big group for dinner there last night. When I booked online it said it would be $50 per person for the banquet and $3 corkage. When we arrived, they said it was now $55 per person and $5 for corkage. I show them an email I had stating what we were quoted with our booking, but they would not honour it. They said they would make it $3 a person for corkage out of good faith but when the bill arrived it was $5 per person, and even though only 5 of us were actually drinking wine they charged the whole table. Needless to say, we didn’t leave any kind of tip. The manager avoided coming out to talk to me and when he finally did he was useless. This is false advertising and misleading and was very inconvenient for my big group because I had told them all the exact amount of cash to bring - which wasn’t enough. I will never dine here again based on this experience! The fact that they wouldn’t not honour or even come to a compromise with the price showed extremely poor customer service and put an unnecessary stress on our evening. It’s not even about having to pay the extra money - it’s about the fact that we were told one thing online and then a completely different story in the restaurant. False...
Read moreWe had the Ege Region banquet. Food was tasty but service was slow. We were there 3 hours. When dessert finally arrived (which we had to follow up twice) we didn’t get the Turkish coffee. The lady (owner I presume) said that is extra if we want it. It says on the menu that it is included with the banquet. We also had to follow up the raki which we paid for. When that arrived it was clearly watered down. It tasted strange and was milky. I have had the raki many times before. Been going to pashas for over 15 years. When we went to pay our $170 bill we asked to use a $50 Restaurant card toward the bill. She said that they don’t accept them. However we looked online at participating restaurants earlier in the day and Pashas was one. The young waiter was lovely but he was clearly run off his feet. He was the only waiter in a full restaurant on New Year’s Eve. The man and woman (owners?) stood around barking orders at him and barely assisting. Overall, food was good as always but the...
Read moreNice, tasty, flavoursome Turkish cuisine. The place was beautifully decorated, oozed charm and had a nice ambiance.
I was famished when I got there ordered the pomegranate salad and Mediterranean style meatballs. Both were nice especially the salad and that says a lot because I'm not usually a salad person. It had a lovely tang to it and though I would have preferred more pomegranate, you could definitely taste it throughout.
Main I ordered the Hunkar Begendi - Finely diced char grilled eggplant flavoured with herb butter and fresh herbs accompanied with marinated grilled lamb pieces flavoured. It came out and in my ravenous state I thought portion was a little small. Well, I was wrong. I couldn't get through it. Lamb was tender and full of flavour and loved the smokey eggplant underneath. Friends had a yoghurt based main and I did use some of their yoghurt on my dish which I thought just gave it that little more flavour but it's a personal thing. Dish was lovely...
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