Driftwood - Restaurant, Bar & Beach — Restaurant in Lapta-Alsancak-Çamlıbel Belediyesi

I visited this place on Sunday, for breakfast. The place was overally crowded, I made a reservation, and we had a seat with no view. Take care to be specific about your reservation as the place has Smoker/ Non smoker area, and Upstairs and downstairs. Upstairs is a nice seating area with a view, downstairs is where the beach is at and there are nice seats by the beach. We sat upstairs. The breakfast experience wasn’t very delightful, service was slow probably because it was very crowded that day, we ordered traditional Turkish breakfast, it was mostly fried food, and oily foods. We got downstairs to explore the place and ordered coffee , and guided by a waiter to sit on a table close to the beach, only to sit on a table with wet seat cushions (I was wearing white pants) 🫠 Anyways, overall the place itself is beautiful, staff are friendly and helpful, maybe it needs more organization and more management, if it was so crowded to begin with, it’s better to not accept new reservations, hence you wouldn’t get upset customer reviews like me 🙈. I would also like to add that the beach was super crowded, so if your coming here for swimming you may not find a sun...

Definitely worth a visit or two to this beach front restaurant with lots of nooks and crannies to sit overlooking the sea or literally on top of the waves on a pier to the rear. It also has lovely chilled areas for before or after your meal to relax and parking lot to the front. The service was impeccable and the menu choice excellent! I chose sea bass rolled and stuffed with prawns and in a creamy spinach sauce complemented with sides of mashed potatoes, crunchy fat chips and vegetables! It was delicious. My husband had steak cafe de paris and my only observation I would suggest is that you ask for the sauce on the side as that was his preference but he forgot to ask, then you can see how your steak is cooked and his was slightly too rare. All in all a lovely place for a romantic meal or in a group! We chose not to have a starter to save ourselves for the main event but were given a complimentary Meze plate with a lovely mixed basket of bread which we really enjoyed. We took our drinks to the seating area near the bar where we had a lovely fruit platter and brandies to finish off a...

It was a very nice place, and the service was great. But the food was unfortunately not good. Everyone else from the reviews seems to think the food was very good, so maybe we were unlucky. I ordered the special if the day (white grouper with lemon sauce). I specifically asked if it was freshly caught today two times to two different waiters that said yes. But I believe after tasting it it was some old fish they wanted to get rid of. There were no sauce either, but I got a big piece of lemon on the plate, so I guess that was the lemon sauce. In addition the waiters were walking fast/running everywhere around us all the time, especially behind me and it was extremely stressful to eat here. Absolutely not romantic where we sat with the extreme amount of waiters always running past our table from and to every direction. The menu that someone has posted is NOT correct. The prices are 60-70% higher now! Way too expensive for the quality...