Ресторан Караван (Restaurant Karavan) — Restaurant in Nha Trang City

To start: the only thing that this restaurant has in common with Turkish food is the name. But first things first: Freshly opened, the restaurant impresses with its clean look and relaxed interior. A good location and a friendly service team guarantee a promising start to the evening. The menu offers a variety of classic Turkish dishes, each accompanied by appealing pictures. You'll get hungry! Unfortunately, that's where the positive impressions end. The first thing that catches the eye is the rather high price. Well, exotic food in faraway Asia can cost quite a bit. In addition, there is a whopping 50% discount on EVERYTHING for the opening! Unfortunately, the dishes ordered don't have much to do with the dishes illustrated on the menu. The portion size differs, conservatively estimated, by about 50%. Instead of a filling grill plate with 300g of meat, a maximum of 100g of lamb makes it onto the plate. Seem like 50% on everything also counts for the served portions. Smart! Class instead of quantity? Far from it! The dishes are edible, by no means bad, but also far from good. The sauce on the kebab tends more towards BBQ CURRY ketchup than Iskender tomato sauce. Thin and tasteless yogurt sauce. Not so thin cut meat. Cheap, bland white bread. No seasoning. Salt and pepper shakers mature into loyal companions on this culinary adventure hike.

The finished dishes are so far removed from anything the customer will find on the menu that even the service staff have difficulty assigning the plates to the appropriate tables.

This discrepancy borders on cheating!

Perhaps my expectations are simply too high, but for a restaurant with the name "Istanbul - Turkish Restaurant", a distant relationship to Turkish cuisine would certainly be appropriate.

A 50% discount currently prevents a more emotional review and adds one star , but perhaps it makes sense to replace the menu, which seems to have been stolen from a Turkish restaurant in Istanbul, with an authentic reflection of the local culinary skills to prevent any claims of misrepresentation.

Hopefully there is way to improve even if I personally don't see...

Having spent two weeks in Istanbul and eaten Turkish food there every day during our visit, as well as in Turkish restaurants the world over, I can say with confidence that I have to agree with the naysayers. I was here drinking a mediocre cappuccino (tasty at first, but quickly tapering off and then leaving a bad aftertaste) when the staff began bringing out sample plates of most of their food offerings to photograph. I had been excited about the prospects of an authentic Turkish restaurant appearing in Nha Trang. Sadly, almost none of the dishes appeared to be more than a fictionalized version of the real thing. Shockingly, they don’t even offer Turkish coffee, and I saw no evidence of any Turkish desserts. The savory dishes simply did not look or smell like the real thing. And the English breakfast cannot be compared to others here in Nha Trang with obviously better ingredients and similar prices.

I think there may be only one or two things on the menu I would consider truly close to Turkish food (split pea soup, avocado toast), and for these prices I’d rather go elsewhere and get truly authentic Japanese or Indian food.

On the positive side, the physical atmosphere is excellent and the staff are friendly. Unfortunately there are almost no seating arrangements at or near power outlets, so lingering and working would be a problem. This is mostly a drinking and dining location, rather than a linger and work kind of place. Nothing wrong with that but it makes spending time over a coffee...

As a Turkish person living in Nha Trang, I was so excited to see what is coming. But the result turned into a disappointment. Ambiance is good, fresh area. I'm sure you will consider changing menu prices. I hope to change my review later with a 5*, if I can see improvements on the kitchen, it's currently not even close to a Turkish couisine on taste basis. We ordered Lahmacun, Pide (cheese&egg), Iskender Lamb Kebab. Lahmacun is supposed to be piping hot, the dough must be thin, ingredient must be juicy and more spicy. Pide dough is supposed to be much more thinner, must be served piping hot. Iskender sauce is not the traditional one, changes the taste of food. Yoghurt must be inspissated. Lamb tastes more like a liver. Bread must be softer with...