Hamsi Pub Et & Balık — Restaurant in Kadıköy

LOW RECOMMENDATION:  Not a fully authentic FISH restaurant as they sell meat items (a bit of everything), food quality & taste are average.

The CARE: □ Will recommend you to keep social distancing.

The POSITIVE ♤ It is in a lovely place/ road inside the Kadikoy/ Moda Fish Market. ◇ many other businesses arround groceries to fashion, pharmacy, restaurant,  sport, entertainment, bars etc

The PRICES: • average..

The PARKING ▪︎ NOT Available

The Safety • A safe & secure area/ place.

The  QUEUE: ▪︎No queue

The EXTRA ▪︎Bread is complimentary ▪︎If the staff want, they may give you 1 desert as complimentary. ▪︎ If the staff want, they may give you Turkish Tea as complimentary.

The SUSTAINABILITY ¤ Reusable dish.

The HEALTHY ○ be CAREFUL other guests that are sitting on the street side table may smoke cigarette or cigar that will disturb non-smokers. Recommend SMOKERS Please not to smoke or move to an area where you will not disturb others. ■ it is an area where you have to walk a lot & will be good for your health.

The NEGATIVE □ average food taste & quality. ■ Not a fully authentic FISH restaurant □ They sell meat items, incl meat restaurant speciality soup.. ◇ They are inconsistent on services with some time you may get heated/toasted...

Food itself is fine, But be aware that if you are a tourist or don't speak Turkish.

You do aware that what has offered to other tables never come to you. However, the tip is mandatory including in the bill, which means you pay for the tip even you don't get what other received. Not the teas, the small appetizers or fruits.

I tried to ask for something because I see those come to others table. In the end, my waiter just put extra item in my bill and let me pay for it.

My waiter greeted me with English at the beginning and could answer my simple question, but in the end when I have the questions he pretend he can't understand me and forced me to use Google translation to show it to him. I got more help from the other waiter eventually. Which I feel angry that my tip will...

We came on the recommendation of a food blog to try the calamari, which was good but not amazing. It was a very negative experience though. First, when we sat down, they seemed upset when we only ordered two dishes. Then they came back 30 minutes later and asked us to order, completely forgetting what we had already ordered and never gotten. Then another 15 minutes went by, and we had to complain again that we had no food after 45 minutes. Finally they brought our food and it was just OK. They never apologized or acknowledged their mistake, and were very rude. DO...