The Ordinary Bomonti — Restaurant in Şişli

This restaurant is perfect from all the angles. Even if you try hard to find some disadvantages, you really cannot. SEXY FOOD. No matter how many times we visited The Ordinary , every time is like a first time. This food filled with passion, filled with love. When you watching Cooks - you see them making love with food. So when it gets to your table - you have no choice but doing the same. Dining experience here - is an act of love with a food. RESPONSIBLE SEVICE. Each waiter has his own station, which helps to avoid mess with the orders. Waiters do know what they serve. Once I asked the waiter about what green oil in the dish is made of (it was tiny detail in the meal) and she told me directly, not asking the kitchen. Also, dedicated gratitude to the administrator of the restaurant. Every time, even if the place is fullest of the full she is doing her best to find you a table. UNIQUE ATMOSPHERE. Quite and cozy Italian restaurant in the afternoon, exciting and dynamic restaurant in the evening. You can see life happening in this place. People having first dates, birthday celebrations, Friday night gatherings here because this atmosphere perfectly suites to any occasion. Obviously, highly recommended. AFFORDABLE PRICES. The cherry on the top is that every single dish here is totally affordable and not overpriced. But, frankly speaking, even if it would be overpriced, we would still come. Adding the picture of Vitello tonnato, because it’s like a masterpiece in...

In two words: this place is just amazing!

I don’t need to go in every Istanbul restaurant to say that this is one of the best.

Interior is simple, cozy and very appealing. The best part is that the whole kitchen is located in the heart of main restaurant space without any borders. So if you are lucky enough to sit inside at the bar table, you are not only eating food, but also watching the whole cooking performance.

Personal is nice, you will most likely see one or both founders in the restaurant, helping out and talking with guests. Which makes you feel like you are in a company of friends on some huge family gathering.

And when it comes to the food. Well it is amazing. Incredibly tasty. Just imagine that your mom was Italian and she made you a perfect dinner with all her love put in it. Menu is not big, few pastas, few risottos, few main options, a lot of pizza and antipasti choices, very nice cocktails menu. But anything you order will be supa good because of this focus. You won’t be lost in number of options but you still will be tearing apart between your desire to taste smth new or come back to the thing that you haven’t ate for the last few times.

Some of my favorites: all from pasta/gnocchi/risotto section, pizza bresaola con ruccola is just too good, and masterpiece tiramisu. Other than that it is up to your preferences but you won’t regret ordering anything.

Absolutely love this place and highly recommend you visiting...

Not good at all. I cant see what is this hype about why are people calling it one of the best Italian restaurant in Istanbul? First of all when I came in they showed me my table that I reserved earlier we sat down and no one came and talked to us or gave us menus so we can order we waited a long time until we asked them to come. After we finished ordering the staff made us feel like were literally nothing and that we don’t know how Italian food works or how restaurants serve food because as we always know in other high quality restaurants they serve you the bread and appetizer that your ordered first but for some reason our table did not get that we waited 35 minutes and then they just came gave us all of our orders together??? Why didn’t we get our appetizer and bread first then the meal just like how we asked it to be and just like how the tables next to us were having why is it just us who is treated like people who don’t understand how restaurants works? If you think that is enough no! When we wanted to pay the waiter who was making us feel like we were nothing literally gave us a receipt that had double of the things we ordered as if we don’t know how to read?? Not only double also an extra pasta that we didn’t order. What kind of restaurant gives a fake receipt? What if we didn’t check?? Would we pay the double amount?? After all the pasta was barley even cooked I swear I can make...