When this place first opened i would not go there because i assumed that it was a couple who had just turned their house into a restaruant without previous experience. To-night i went & had the most expensive meal on the menu which was fillet steak with special sauce 23TL. When the meal came there was a big fillet steak cooked just as i wanted it, (rare) no steak knife needed. there were also proper cooked fresh chips, Bulger, (i'm not keen on that) & a small bit of salad. The special sauce was sweet & cold, a lot of people would like that, but that is a personal taste. You can shout as much as you want about the steaks on the front but for quality & quantity, Roka is hard to beat. The owners went to Sweden approx 40 years ago & have had a restaruant for quite a few years there. They then decided to come back to their mother land & start a business here. The father does the cooking, son & daughter see to the customers & the wife assists the father. Swedish is the first language, then Turkish, then English, which is excellent. When the meal is good i make sure that the chef knows just as when it is not good they know that aswell. l hunted out the chef & told him that my steak was without doubt the best cooked i have had in Turkey & i eat a lot of steak. When the night drew in the lights were lit, you had that cosy romantic(if thats what you like) feeling to it. l did say to the waiter that when i normally have steak, i ask for, chips, sliced onions & mushrooms cooked in butter & nothing else, the reply was ïf that's what you want thats what you can have, no problem, all you have to do is ask). the directions are, if you come from the Dolphin (as was) roundabout aim to-ward G'basi to the next roundabout as if you are going to the Sunday market. Go past the Cafe Pazaar on the right & approx 100yd further you will see the Roka which is directly across the main road from the Sunday market. They also do a lunchtime menu for 10TL which includes a soup, main course & either tea or water, i am going to try it to-morrow & will report back.
