Nirvana — Restaurant in Essen

We went because of the good ratings but it was rather disappointing: Place is super noisy, and felt like a road stop restaurant - also not a big fan of the bright lights. The waiters brought out the dips and salad but no bread. Overall it was all pretty disorganized. The fries were served solo. But not the mains. Mayo and ketchup are individually wrapped, just like with their takeout food. My friend finished the fries before our mains because it took them so long to bring them out. Meanwhile a flatbread was served for the dips. The beef wrap was a sad sad dish. A few chunks of chewy meat, onions, but almost nothing else - not even a sauce. The Adana köfte with yoghurt sauce was unfortunately also chewy, and apart from the sauce it wasn‘t very enjoyable. Instead of rice, I ordered vegetables as a side. I got rice. After I asked again, they brought me some fat-dripping deep-fried vegetable cubes.

Maybe it was a bad day but sadly we didn’t enjoy any of this experience. Two stars because the service was...

every waiter instead of taking the order greeted and passed by, my friend and I waited for our order for more than 40 minutes, while there were more waiters than guests and they were talking to each other, I am disappointed with the price and size of the dish, I expected it to be more as shown in the menu, when I asked why it took so long, the waiter laughed at me and asked if I was from Ukraine, we had to call another waiter to pay for the order and then asked to wait 2 minutes, ok that is not 40 😆 and it was faster, my friend and I were disappointed and tired of waiting, so we will not...

Best place in Essen!

We went to Essen for a weekend trip, the weather was supposed to be great but it was very grey and cold. We kind of had a bad day because of the weather, but we decided to get a quick drink before going back to the hotel. When we walked into Nirvana, we were greeted by Ogur, he litterly brightened our day! We decided to have some snacks (pide) and got a lot of little appetizers from the house.

All the food was amazing, and the service by Ogur and the rest of the team was impeccable.

Thank you for this great unexpected experience!

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