Lale Cafe & Restaurant — Restaurant in Şişli

If you’re a tourist be very careful, first of all they do smoke cigarettes heavily inside at this restaurant disregarding whether it’s a health danger specially to older people with cardiovascular problems or asthma. Secondly, the menu is only in Turkish, so you don’t know what you’re ordering or what you’re getting (if you don’t speak Turkish), very difficult to understand. Additionally, they brought us the check without any details or explanation. When we asked for details on the check, he was not able to explain clearly about the prices. Be...

These thieves charge international people between 3 to 5 times more than their current online menu prices. We even asked them as to why the prices were different and they ignored us and didn't answer. The soda for instance is listed as 15lira and is charged at 100lira! Don't go there! And hopefully this low rating takes them out of the top rating locations which is why we went there. Also the creeps stared at us the whole meal and made my group feel very...

The food is truly delicious and the staff took care of me extra kindly and they did their best to communicate in English with me. The menu is also translated.

There was also beautiful Turkish music live and people singing along and enjoying. I had a nice time as a solo traveler sipping tea at no extra cost after dinner. I...