Ephesus Restaurant — Restaurant in London

Where do I start... I'm going to be really honest, this was my first and last time here. First off we were promised a live music which turned out to be more on the lines of mumbling some lines. The atmosphere was drab and non existent. The food was cold and tasteless. Most of my friends that went (12+) we couldn't finish our meals as meat was uncooked and carbs (rice / chips) were still frozen. We paid £30pp for a belly dancer, live music and a set menu, which is fair enough. The belly dancer was outstanding as always and was entertaining. Couldn't say the same about the service and fixtures. We asked for water a number of times and was then presented with a plastic water bottle which wasn't very clean with tap water and was told to share this across the table. We were not impressed. The reason for this was they had run out of jugs (btw no-one had jugs) or food for that matter. Timely delivery of food, didn't exist. We got to the restaurant at 19:30, we had some drinks caught up ordered. Starters came out at 20:50. We then entertained by shouting in the kitchen and what seemed to be a disagreement between all staff, other diners at this point started walking out without eating anything as they had waited so long. Then at 21:57 we were graced with our main meal which was half hot half cold. Rice was pretty much frozen, meat was hot but as mentioned before, some was uncooked. Not too mention the smallest lime in my 'strawberry daiquiri' which has literally no taste. We you can tell from the pictures these were not happy customers a lot of food was left... Yes a plastic container for my sweet and sour sauce instead of the promised aioli sauce.

Bearing on mine the whole time we sat with our coats and scarves on as the AC was turned up so high our hands were turning blue.

In conclusion, if you want to pay through the nose for cold, uncooked and unfriendly stay them please come...

We booked for an afternoon start at 1:30 pm and there was so much food, we left around 4:30pm and didn't need any more food till breakfast the next morning (a few nuts and snacks with drinks at home in the evening of course) as we were so full!

This is my local Mediterranean restaurant, so I go here again and again. Every visit I bring new friends and they are always happy with the food. My recommendation would be the meat sharing platter for 2 as it comes with just about every kebab, Chicken and lamb Shish plus Kofte, and enough starters to share between 4 people, costing around £25 per person for this spread. Then if there are 4 of you, the other 2 can easily share your meze (starters) dishes as the bread is lovely and soft and fresh warm with lovely seeds to give it another flavour level. Our friends said they were quite full after the starters alone. So my friend and I ordered the shared platter, girls ordered some other dishes with meat and Aubergine which they said were also amazing and looked nicer than ours as their dishes were swimming in juicy sauces. There was no room for pudding, but the owner served us some fantastic fresh Baklava with our coffees and treated us like royalty and very attentive. Love this place.

If you want to have a meal that has plenty of food and you have a healthy appetite, then this is the...

You know you’ve landed somewhere that impresses you when you make a video of your food, (I mean, do we do that these days)? And say to each other: Come to Ephesus and forget you are in Orpington for a while. We’ve only been living in Orpington for 10 years and never been here.

We were so glad we’ve put that right as this venue, with its Turkish inspired food, complete with live entertainment when we came, transports you via all your senses to your favourite Turkish holiday destination.

We are both blind and came with our Guide Dogs who were also made very welcome. The staff were more than happy to spend time reading the menu out to us and we felt that they were very aware when placing what we had ordered in front of us, telling us where things were positioned and making sure we had all we needed. Nothing felt like too much trouble to them.

Prices are very reasonable for a restaurant which not only provide quality food and service but, throw entertainment in for good measure too.

Again huge thanks to all the staff and the lovely lady in particular who spent time with us, happy to read out the...