Istanbul Grill — Restaurant in Ohio

This place is a hidden gem. The outside doesn't look like it would be a restaurant, honestly I thought it was like on nightclub or something. However, the inside is a very nice. It is very clean. Everything looks very nice, inviting, tidy. The bathrooms are super clean and very nice. Whenever we went in, we were seated immediately. Honestly, there was almost nobody. There was a large family there before us, and then a large family came after us. They really should be way more busy because their food is amazing. We got the mixed grill platter. It came with chicken kabob, beef kabob, lamb chops, chicken adena, and beef adena. It also came with a lot of rice and some tortilla-like bread or pita like bread. It was thinner than a pita but it was really good in. Not quite like a flour tortilla. The platter also had grilled vegetables on it, including grilled jalapeno, grilled tomatoes, grilled seasoned onions, and a bunch of lettuce. It came with a red spicy sauce, and then a yogurt based sauce that was kind of like tzatziki sauce. We also got the lahmacun as an appetizer, however, it was a lot so we did have leftovers. There was three of us and a child. It was a very huge appetizer, it could have been a whole meal for like two people. Was really really good. We also had gotten a Greek salad, we were expecting like a side salad, but it was a pretty huge salad and we split it among three people. The portion sizes were much bigger than you would get like pasha grill. And honestly they are so much better. My dad said that this is his new favorite restaurant. I can't wait to come back here and bring my friends and family. I would give this a 10 out of 10. I'm definitely coming back.

Edit to add: this place has yet to fail me. My husband liked it so much we ended up going twice in one weekend...

Mediocre, expensive food, bad service, poor atmosphere.

We walked in around lunch and the place was a ghost town. We were greeted by the sight of two servers doom scrolling on their phones (fair enough when there are no customers). We were sat down at a table with an unpleasant plastic table cloth that hung down to our knees and a fly buzzing around our table.

My girlfriend wanted chicken samsa, which they were out of, she got a wrap instead. I asked what vegetables were in the veggie pide, which the server could not tell me (except for: "not broccoli" - super helpful). I ordered it anyway, but asked for no olives since that's the one veggie I don't like.

They brought her meal out lightning fast, and we nibbled on some fries while she waited awkwardly to eat until I had my food as well. It was probably a solid 10-15 more minutes - which isn't that long of a wait time, but why not bring both meals together? As the dish arrived, I immediately saw it was covered in olives. At this point we were both too fed up to deal with it, so I picked them out and ate the food.

The food itself was fine - nothing spectacular, and I'd expect something better for the price tag. Not worth coming back for.

Oh, and they charged us $1.25 each...

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