Doboo restaurant — Restaurant in Artuklu

We'd go somewhere else for dinner however both the staff in our hotel and a shop owner's advice was Doboo so we gave it a chance despite the bad reviews. When you go into the the restauraunt, the terrace is almost after 3 stairs. At the entrance, nobody asks you if you've a reservation or not. We didn't have one and after going up all the stairs we were asked if we had it or not. Eventually, a table was arranged. We received a complimentary salad and traditional cig kofte. Salad's tomatoes were definetely rotten. I guess they were prepared way earlier and due to the hot weather, were no good anymore. We ordered kaburga hası and kaburga dolması which were both dry and heated before the service. And the meat was lamb leg, not brisket meat. We also ordered saray yahnisi which is a traditional plum and meat stew. I'd like if it was mentioned in the menu or before the order that the plums will be served with the seeds. Saray yahni was not bland or bad, 3/5 however the seed separation part was not joy at all. The meat quantity was for 5 pieces in total in this dish. And when we received the receipt, the water was also charged. The problem is we hadn't asked for water and thought they were served with food free of charge. Eventually, we paid 440 TRY and unfortuntely it was the worst food experience of...

We saw this place while walking around and went inside to see. It was in the afternoon, there was noone. The guy at entrance was nice said to go check upstairs for the view. We liked the view and wanted to make reservation for dinner, they said no reservation needed which was weird. Then we went there in the evening for dinner and they said no table left with the view but there was one available and the guy upstairs refused to give that table to us. He was really rude. I tried to explain him that we were there earlier, he kept saying that table is reserved. I wouldn’t recommend you to go to that kind of place. There are a lot of options like that. Choose...

The best food I have had in my life. We tried all the appetizers (except the one made of stomach) and I usually don’t eat icli kofte or cigi kofte because I never liked them but their ones were out of this world. As main dish we ordered doboo lamb which literally melted in my mouth. Never had anything like this and I come from a country famous for really good lamb. The view from the terrace is amazing, the staff is very nice and helpful. We paid 160 tl per person but for the quality of the food, the service and the view, it was worth...