Istanbul Meze & Grill Bar — Restaurant in England

A terrible birthday experience. Upon arrival we were advised that the lamb dish main on the menu was not available, nor the king prawn dish that had attracted us to visit the restaurant in the first place. We waited a long time for service though the restaurant only had two diners when we had arrived. My starter was supposedly a GF sausage though I question if it really was GF after suffering the consequences after our visit Myself and another in the party had ordered a beef main. When it arrived the beef was very overcooked, dry and hard work; it was as if we were trying to eat our boots. We returned both dishes. On hearing our concerns the waitress was far from helpful. Not expecting chef to work wonders with seemingly a cheap cut of beef, I asked what they could prepare a GF alternative. The waitress suggested a feta salad. I laughed and I asked for a meat alternative. She replied that she didn’t know which options were GF and she tried to hand the menu to me, advising that she “was too busy”. The manager arrived and she too was far from helpful. I am a carnivore and a coeliac and I was told that it would take too long to cook another meat dish - I opted out and I didn’t have a main. My co-diner opted for a pizza alternative. There was no apology, just rudeness. The awkward moment came at the end of the meal when the waitress served the surprise birthday cake that my co-diners had bought me…She opted to serve it to one of my co-diners even though she was well aware that it was me who was celebrating a birthday, in order to avoid having to communicate with me.

Appallingly poor service; poor value for money; cafe-style decor....

Not good enough.

Bland and mostly tasteless, uninspired food; the moussaka was awful, the salad was dry and certainly not fresh. Strange menu with lots of British oven food like chicken nuggets and chips (not so much Turkish). Also very pricy for what it is! Their desserts are perhaps the only somewhat strong point (baklava).

The décor is okay, but there's ornaments and items from various parts of the world displayed that isn't in keeping with the theme of Turkey whatsoever. Felt like their own house with personal items strewn everywhere.

They also don't seem to have purchased licensing rights to play regular music produced by original artists, so there was a string of (often bad) cover pop songs being played. I'd have liked to have heard some authentic Turkish music.

The service seemed okay, but they shouldn't be serving anyone until this place gets an overhaul.

I strongly suspect many of the positive reviews have been faked for this place. I understand they don't want their business to go under, but I'd rather they took steps to improve the restaurant than depend on misleading Google reviews to take advantage of people passing through Wendover.

Another warning sign is how the restaurant owners treat negative reviews. If you scroll through the negative reviews you'll see them commenting on several accusing them of “trying to take us down”. It's utterly juvenile and a sign the management is in denial about its...

avoid at all costs this indefinitely not an authentic turkish restaurant the we ordered 2 mixed doner kebab's, these were not make from fresh cooked meat and were frozen and either reheated on a hot plate or in a microwave and had never seen a gyros machine. tasted like fake cheap meat

The salad was coleslaw one again no onions, tomatoes, cucumber or cabbage. the bread was half a slice of flatbread not turkish bread or even pitta bread.

No hummus or bread while you're waiting and the chilly sauce was from a 5 lite jar not made on site either.

The venue really carries noise when we were seated we could hear every word sentence pause and breath the female couple were saying who were 3 metres away.

they also added a 12.5% service charge not disclosed on the menu.

Also the prices have been increased dramatically from the prices on the menu shown here.

We so wanted this to be a nice place and only saving grace was the lovely young waitress who was polite and...