Istanbul Grill Restaurant and Cocktail Bar — Restaurant in Bury

So eaten at the Istanbul Grill for the Third time yesterday and we always give our honest experience of the restaurant, Cleanliness, food, drink, service etc.

I have over 23,000,000 views and we honestly love Istanbul Grill in Radcliffe, We turned up on Sunday 24th March at 12Noon as the restaurant opened.

We were warmly greeted and placed into a lovely booth, My Fiancee ordered a large glass of Red Wine 🍷 and I went for a pint of San Miguel(£6), My Fiancee really enjoyed her Full Bodied Red Wine, My pint of San Miguel was ice cold, Crisp and a really good pint.

For Food we ordered 2x Lots of Three Plates of Tapas(£12 for 3 Dishes), We ordered the Mussels in a Tomato and garlic sauce(Also available in a cream White Wine sauce), Meatballs, Calamari(deep fried squid), Spicy Turkish sausage, Spicy chicken rolls, Garlic Mushrooms in a lovely garlic creamy sauce, We ordered some warm Turkish bread and steak cut chips.

The Mussels were extremely fresh, Extremely tasty and the sauce was beautiful, The Meatballs weren't massive but they were so succulent and tasty, It was my first time trying Calamari but again the Calamari were extremely tasty, fresh, The Spicy Turkish sausage was juicy, meaty and slightly Spicy and very flavoursome, The Spicy chicken rolls were lovely, Crunchy roll with the chicken was another delicious dish, My Fiancee had the Garlic Mushrooms in the garlic and white wine sauce which she really, really enjoyed, The Warm Turkish bread was fresh, soft and came with Some lovely dips and the chips were very tasty, slight cajun spices which were again really nice.

Food Portions were not massive but in all honesty the food was filling, The service was fantastic, Restaurant was spotlessly clean, Food was extremely nice, really tasty and really enjoyed enjoyed all the different tastes and spices of the various dishes.

Then my Fiancee ordered another glass of wine and I ordered half a pint of San Miguel.

Total bill with A Service charge was £55.80 but we rounded the bill upto £60.

They also have Live acts on from Time to time(Check the Website for more details).

5☆ Across The Board - We Highly recommend...

If I could have given a 0* to Istanbul I would have, this is the 2nd time we have recieved poor service from the staff here, the 1st time was New Years eve where we had booked weeks in advance and paid a deposit for a table, only on arrival to be seated in the back yard on plastic seats and trestle tables, which was not the New Year experience we had wanted or expected. However, we wanted to try something different from our regular restaurants and decided to give Istanbul another try, we had been once to Istanbul prior to the New Year evening this was when they had first opened, it had been a lovely evening. So friday night we were family free for the night and decided to try Istanbul again, we arrived early evening, the restaurant wasn't very busy and we were seated to the rear of the restaurant, the waiter/manager came over and asked what drinks we would like, however before taking the order he walked away, he then returned several minutes later to ask again for our drinks order, half way through giving my order to him he seemed distracted and again walked away, this time he had gone over to greet a group of 4 who were obviously regulars, and stood talking to them at their table, no harm in that however mid taking a order it felt rude bordering on ignorant, it was at this point my husband decided that the waiter/manager obviously did not want our trade so we got up and walked out, we decided to try Bury, where we had a lovely meal at the Swan & Cemetary chilled atmosphere, great service and lovely food. We will continue to support our little town with its selection of restaurants, Armaan, Bella Italia and Radcliffe Market food nights, who all provide great customer service to every customer not just the regulars. Istanbul will not be...

We booked a table for 6 during the Lionel Ritchie tribute night, it was fairly busy so we didn't mind waiting to get our drink order in and then a bit longer than usual for our drinks but then we had to keep getting the waiters attention to place our food order, he wouldn't take our drinks order so had to wait gor someone else which took ages, then people all around us were getting their food and we're still waiting for ours, 60min after ordering our food I asked to speak to manager to voice my concerns that everyone around us that came after us has had their meals and we're still waiting, I felt completely dismissed and was told they're very busy and our food is on the way, it finally came 90mins after we ordered which is unacceptable. Throughout the whole night we only had 3 drinks each as couldn't get served drinks either as they were busy. Although the Lionel tribute was good I wouldn't recommend and definitely won't be going back. A token gesture discount or drink on the house would have been...