Çeşme Bazlama Kahvaltı Nişantaşı 1

DO NOT EAT HERE IF YOU ARE BY YOURSELF. There are plenty of other places that offer turkish breakfast that are more reasonably priced and less gimmicky especially if you are a solo diner. I tried breakfast at other places and this place is not much different from others especially the main dishes.

I came to this place alone and was immediately seated by a waiter who said that all orders are the same per table and asked me to take a look at the table next to me and I will be getting the exact same spread. He then started mentioning specific dishes as if he was describing what I was going to get along with the orange juice, all of which I saw the table next to me had. I said okay and to my surprise, everything he mentioned were add-ons that I had to pay for separately. As someone who was dining alone, the basic spread of food was already more than enough for me to finish and they still had tricks to make me order more food which no longer became humanly possible to eat. I wasn’t able to finish the food and asked for the check so I can leave immediately. Once I received the check, there I found that it was all a trick to make me order more and the waiter’s demeanor had changed from being jolly to almost being hostile I guess to scare me off from complaining after I found out about his trick. He also then proceeded to say that he no longer added a service fee possibly hinting that I should tip him after he tricked me into ordering an absurd amount of food as a single diner. I paid for whatever was on my table and left. The place is decent but there are plenty of restaurants in istanbul that are just as decent or even more beautiful and not overrated. I think this place has a lot of good reviews because they have a person there walking around asking people to leave reviews and by doing so, people are more likely to find nice things to say especially when writing a review whilst being there. They also asked me to write a review even before they have served me anything. The price here compared to other breakfast offers in other restaurants is also much higher but the food itself does not differ by much. If you are after the hype, then by all means try it for yourself but as someone who has been here, dining in a not so overrated restaurant may even be a better experience than going to this place. In the end, I paid 960 turkish lira as a solo diner at this restaurant.