Beltas Cafe — Restaurant in Beşiktaş

This café was a big, big disappointment. The service is unfriendly, incompetent and doesn’t speak English at all. They don’t even try to understand you, not even basic words! We had to ask a poor guest to translate for us. They all look like their goldfish died recently. Then next: the menu says you can order breakfast until 2 pm on weekends, not you can only (!) order breakfast until 2 pm. We could decide between the most basic breakfast offers they had. By the way they don’t have fresh bread. Be prepared for dry, old bread in plastic bags. The terrace is really small, there is place for maybe 15 guests. The only good thing about this place is the view, but even that is not worth the bad behaviour...

Don't do it. Ordered levrek (bass) and çipura (bream), both grilled. Did not enjoy it one bit. The bream was okay (but dry) on one side, but overgrilled and inedible on the other. The bass was nothing special, and more or less just not tasty. The sides with the fish were some vegetables (rucola, onion), lemon and a half kumpir (potato) with cheese on and in (ugh) it. They even manage to ruin the potato. The soup was ezo gelin, it was okay. We left early, most of the bass was given to the cat that visited our table and only one side of the bream was eaten. All in all, it was a huge...

The only nice thing is the view. We ordered coffee for oir table to try a few variations and had a card game on the table. Just as we had played a round the waiter came and told us in turkish to stop playing and gestured for us to pack it away. There were tables free and other guests were on their Laptop working. We said that we would order more drinks. But that did not matter apparently. As to why many others could clearly sit and occupy a table and work and as to why we could not enjoy how we wanted at our table i still dont understand. Disappointing and...