Marbella Terrace cafe & Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Fatih

If I can give 0 stars I would.

This might be the worst $50 dollars I spent in my life.

Place looks nice, I sit down order a veggie plate. And I ask the waiter what the market price is on the grilled octopus.

He comes back and tells me 300 lira around $43 dollars I ask him how many grams and he says 400 grams..

I think about the price and the quantity and I ask the waiter is the grilled octopus good he says of course it is veryy good.

I say duck it I want some good octopus so I don’t mind spending $40 plus on one plate in Istanbul.

My octopus arrives in 5 little small pieces , I tell t he waiter sir, you told me it was 400 grams !?

He comes back after 5 minutes and says the kitchen is cooking some more for me.

I said ok.

And take my first bite..

Couldn’t believe how chewy it was ..

I talk to the manager and tell him about my issues.. he tells me that the octopus they go t was very very big and that 3 other costumers said the same thing as I did about it being way too hard and too chewy.

I tell him if you can’t provide good quality octopus then maybe you shouldn’t have it on the menu.

I tell him I just payed $50 dollars for a small plate of not good octopus.

The manager says thank you for letting him know and that he will talk to his cook about it.

I told the waiter , man.. if another guest asks you if the octopus is good , don’t say that it is good. Because 1 out of 10 I give it 4 barely .

He says that he is sorry and if I would like some tea, or a glass of wine on the house .

I said no thank you I’m good.

The manager didn’t even try to comp my meal or take a discount of from the fifth dollar plate that I just payed .. and even when they brought the extra 3 little pieces of octopus no way on any planet was that 400 grams total.

Not even 300 grams

The staff the manager and the cook definitely dropped a ball on this one.

Would give it 0 stars .. the manager told me that the cooks were beating the octopus for a long time to make it soft.

I told him sir . It’s about the quality of the octopus that you are serving.

If it’s not good quality it doesn’t matter how many minutes you beat it..

And you should definitely charge $50 dollars for it.

I wouldn’t even pay $10 dollars for the plate that I had.

Horrible..

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Firstly I've never left a one star review but I feel I have to, as I really can't understand how the 1000+ reviews can be legitimate.

Firstly we looked into the reviews of this place as you would do and decided to go there as it the place had great reviews. I was recommended to this place by my hotel's concierge, however on arrival we came to a random building and were pretty shocked to how old and somewhat run down it looked! We were reluctant to continue in but thought we would because it was late at the time and we had just got off our flight.

When we got in the guy was like, 'oh you're from the Aren Suites Hotel' there was no way for him to know this as there were around 10 other hotels around which make me believe my concierge guy had called them to say he was sending some customers over. There must be some sort of deal going on between the too or a commission in my mind being paid to the hotels locally to recommend and send customers.

We then sat down in a not very nice looking place, it didn't feel good at all, it is all quite run down. Then the food came out which was cold including the Turkish bread so it was not enjoyable at all (We thought the food might have made up for the surroundings) but this definitely wasn't the case.

The price for the food was also very expensive for what it was, we could have had a better meal in a much nicer restaurant for a lot less. Again not good. I would recommend you looking at the 4th picture on google, this is the actually place you will be visiting and once again the food was not great either nor the surroundings and finally my friend was sick after having the salmon that night.

I hope you found this review helpful. It is a true review on the restaurant unlike some of these other reviews which I dont believe...