Buffalo Mediterranean Restaurant — Restaurant in Huntingdonshire

I don't 5* easily but loved my visit to this restaurant.

Visited this place for lunch with my partner last Saturday 20/04/24, and Mimmett and his colleagues made us feel welcomed and talked us through some of his recommendations when we were torn on what to pick.

Before getting to the food, the outside is very smart, sleak, and clean with some pleasing additions to the roofline.

Once inside, the layout was clean, smart, and what I can imagine a classic traditional Turkish restaurant looking like, with simple but stylish decor and traditional style paintings decorating the wall.

The small complementary starter (meze of olives, salsa, and tzatziki) with some lightly fried Turkish bread was such a mouth pleaser and really got the taste buds fired up for our mains (Sea Bass with pureed potato, and Lamb Shank with the same). Both were so full of flavour and portion size was perfect.

Following this, the home made Baklava was terrific, and the perfect amount for sharing between two.

Food wise, the cherry on top was the Turkish coffee that was served in the cutest Turkish style cup. Just don't drink right to the bottom!!

Mimmett's quality and welcoming service, added magic, and general kindness made the meal an all-round pleasing experience that I would recommend to anyone, and I look forward to visiting this venue again when I'm back in the area.

Keep up the great work Buffalo and...

My first visit I marked as three stars this now upgraded to four .Our party of 24 book reservation and attend for Xmas family party costing around £600 + drinks s , parking slight issue but nothing major park in council carpark then short walk . First visit . Starters excellent paid one pound extra for the lamb four star for this tasted amazing . Main course the burger not just any burger but brisket burger well loaded touch too dry a shame as sauce and asparagus was amazing full slice of tomato and gherkin. Waiter polite well mannered and on the ball hence tipped . I would go again when a bit busier and inside . So now the update 24 orders starters and main range of different starters pan fried mussels and salad well delicious unfortunately only 4 mussels . Grilled octopus 4 orders feedback 3 of the excellent 1 mushy overall great start .other starters chicken wings ect all good . Now the mains different steaks whether sirloin or ribeye all sourced from butchers cook to your needs no complaints from any of the guest .Other dishes all good apart from spaghetti Bolognese not enough Bolognese. Desserts all tasted great abit overpriced. The staff the cook the owner I bow my head very high standards . If booking for group plenty of advance and pre order menu available online . Thank you buffalo Mediterranean for out Xmas...

I want to preface this review by saying, the meal in general was good. Had the hot mezze starter and the bread hit the spot. Also, I tried my guests beef bourguignon, and it tasted great.

However.. I got the Cappadocia, and it has to be hands down one of the worst dishes I have eaten in my life. The chicken was incredibly dry, the sauce was bland, and the flavour combinations made absolutely no sense. Sweet & sour, pomegranate, lemon, apricot, and almond, in the one sauce?!? The only way I could describe the taste is if you blended a fruit and nut bar, and added heavily diluted sweet and sour. I thought I'd try it as given this recipe was supposed to be '500 years old', maybe they had stumbled upon some weird combination which worked? It didn't.. I also searched online for this supposed dish, it doesn't exist (from what I can see). It was obvious the food was premade and microwaved, which makes zero sense as they were chargrilling fresh chicken?! Maybe add fresh chicken to a pre-made sauce if they can't make it on the night, surely?

I pointed out my disdain for the dish, no comments from the chef or the servers after that point, the bill was just shoved into the table.

Shame really as the rest of the meal was good. At the very least I hope the chefs re-consider this menu option, because it was an...