Çalakașık Kadiköy — Restaurant in Kadıköy

I love Çalakaşik! It's assorted ready made turkish food in banmarie and being a popular place the dishes are replaced constantly. They have a good selection of meats, vegetables, soups and desserts. I love to look at the dishes on display and have to keep remembering not to jam up the queue for food. Ive been trying a few different dishes each time I got there and haven't been disappointed - it's very affordable to eat there. There's both outdoors and indoor seating and as soon as a customer leaves table is quickly cleaned up ready...

I ate here twice, with hefty meals and trying 8 separate dishes in total.

If you claim you want to eat local food, then this is the spot.

Friendly enough staff, it's easy to just point at what you want and ask for it if you don't know what the dish is called.

The food quality is probably not a super high standard being served cafeteria style, but it serves real hearty Turkish food and that's what I was looking for. Everything I ate I enjoyed, anyway.

Price wise, my large meals cost 345 lira...

This place has a lot of variety, so I asked if it was possible to try just a tiny bit of all his recommendations. That was perfectly okay, so I got one plate with 6 tiny portions on it. Now, I thought it would go without saying that this would come at a reduced rate, but they went ahead and charged me full price for all of them. €20 for a single medium plate. I'll take some of the blame for not clarifying that beforehand, but that's really really bad service and left me with a bad taste...