On my travels to Leicester I usually go up and down on London Road and noticed Konak a couple of times. And decided I will give this Turkish restaurant a go. I went to Konak on a weekday afternoon.

Headed inside a friendly waiter (labelled him in a photo to this review) noticed and served me, I told I him was on my own and he took me to a table. Shortly afterwards he presented me with a menu in a booklet format. For starters I chose the Mixed Hot Meze, the drink a bottled Salgam and the main meal a Ribeye Steak (medium rare).

It took some time for my order to come through, and I believe there is a reason for this. When it did come through the starter the Mixed Hot Meze (or how I like to call it now, the Mixed Hot Meme) was near to lukewarm and somewhat disappointing. The Sucuk Izgara was like near edible salty leather (not in a good way), the Halloumi was like eating a soft rubber, the Sigara Boregi just ok but the Falafel was the best out of the four!

The price for the Mixed Hot Meze (£17.00) (Mixed ‘Hot’ Meme) is not worth it! In my opinion for what it’s worth it should have been priced about £10.

I did not drink all of the Salgam as it was a very Hot day (it was very spicy), and I reckon that drink will go very well during the winter cold days as an alternative to tea and coffee.

Onto the main dish, the Ribeye I believe was cooked from frozen. I reckon the chefs took it out of the freezer to thaw the meat. Which took the longest to come out, the middle part of the steak was ok but the edges were like chewing gum. (see photos of the chewed up ‘meat’ to this review) The white sauce that came with the steak tasted bland it had no taste in it. The only decent thing that came with the steak, was the chips. At this point I was not upset or disappointed with the steak, as I don’t usually eat steak on a regular basis. So I am not a Steak expert like Guga from Gugafoods (YouTube).

After this I went to the cashier to pay for the disappointing food (labelled him as The Attitude problem guy, see photo to this review), I think he knew that the food in Konak is below par, and he most certainly saw me spitting out the chewing gum texture of the disappointing steak. He asked how was the food? I replied I am not a steak expert and I don’t feel that I can say if the steak was good or not. He retorted to me saying that you should not of ordered it medium rare (in a very rude way). I was like staring at him and thinking to myself I have not made a negative reply about the place yet!.......................apart from this review.

After this I’ve read other reviews of Konak Leicester on Google maps thoroughly, and it turns out that there are reviews who have a negative experience with “dark browned skinned Indian guy” and I believe he is the same exact person, I’ve also had unpleasant experience with. (please read other reviews from Lilly Montrose, Tim King and AAA IXV)

In my opinion I think there are better menu items with Konak, if there are people who are reading this review. I would suggest to stay away from all of their steaks.

And lastly be very wary of The Attitude problem guy (the dark skinned indian guy with the silver framed glasses)