A party of four of us on recommendation from a review on CBF decided to give this restaurant a try on their Saturday night last week.
I drove down there to do make the booking and was advised of the set menu and that the musicians this week would not be the "normal" ones. Not a problem and I arranged for a pick up at 19.30pm in Ovacik.
We were picked up at exactly 19.30 and taken to the restaurant.
The welcome was friendly and the owner explained the format for the evening and told all present, which was probably about 40-50 people that we would not go hungry!
We were told that the starters were help yourself and I must say that the selection, quality and flavour of these starters was excellent and if a selection of these maybe 10 dishes was not enough for you then you could make another, one was enough for us all but not due to their quality.
For the main course our table ordered two meatball dishes and the others one sea bass and one chicken. They all arrived at the same time and in contrast to the starters were possibly the worst food I have been served in Turkey.
They came with the normal rice, chips, cauliflower a little tomato and modeled carrot. The chips, rice and cauliflower were cold on all of the plates and the two portions of meatballs were in fact small patties of what I believe plain minced beef, with little or no seasoning or additional ingredients to add any flavour and had no enjoyable taste.
The other two dishes were BBQ'd fish and chicken which were both dry. Sweets where a selection of either rice pudding, cheesecake or baklava. Three chose the cheese cake which was ok but the slice was so thin it was not capable of standing as a slice but was laid on its side. Two small pieces of baklava were unremarkable.
Now I understand that this was a TL40 per head meal and trying to provide everyone with hot food almost simultaneously is a task, but if providing cold substandard food is the result they should not bother.
This meal went from such a high to such a low in one course and this was a shame.
Finally, I understand that the music here is pretty good, well on this occasion I must say that the singer had a voice so cutting we lasted a while and then moved out from the covered area to seek some peace away from this feline version of a singer. I won't mention the flute!