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Other Local Resorts & Areas => Uzumlu Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Firo on November 26, 2010, 20:06:23 PM
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Just spotted this on Facebook.... it's a FREE OPEN BUFFET on Tues nights from 7.30pm.:D
Check out the other offers as well as there are lots of other fabulous offers as well including Roast Pork on Sundays :P
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/photo.php?fbid=177811645564884&set=a.153882891291093.32104.151281168217932
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[^]Sounds good - do we have to book Ali? Looks like we might have to go out on Tuesday!
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Booking is not necessary for any day/night except for Christmas Day and New Year's Eve.
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looks excellent stuff-def give it a spin next month
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Don't bother, booked for 30 people 5 days ago, he told us about the varied menu including the roast pork, we turn up today and he forgot, couldn't even do a sandwich for us. We went to the Fesetta who catered for us without prior notice, excellent service from them on the spur of the moment, couldn't do enough for us. Forget Alya (I didn't want to buy one of his shoddy properties anyway) He's a con man. Only talking from my experience mind go there at your own risk, he may have food even!!!!!!!
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DB does a leopard change its spots[?] was only a matter of time M8 ;) once a scumbag always a scumbag ;)
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No leopards do not change their spots. :D:D I knew it would only be a matter of time. I got caught once but never again and unfortunately I have one of the shoddy properties complete with leaking roof and damp. :(:( Actually the roof hadn't even been finished because they were so anxious to sell the apartments and get the money. No certainly not good customer service and not good for business either. I like to give anyone the benefit of the doubt and although I will never venture into Park Alya myself I sincerely hoped he had changed and would make sucess of his business (so long as I get my money back of course :) :) but that is for the court to decide!!!!). Yes his meals are cheap much cheaper than the Robin Hood, where he was before but in my experience you get what you pay for and I am choosy about what I eat and where I eat it. With the price of meat in Turkey I think about what is actually in the curry or sauce. At the end of the day DB he surely could have rustled up something for your party even if it was only soup and bread. It is a bloody restaurant after all. There are plenty of other nice restaurants in Uzumlu with honest hardworking Turkish people running them so I will patronise those - they deserve it.
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Have to agree not good business turning 30 booked customers away - thus potentially losing 30 future customers! Have to say have always found Ali polite and accommodating in regards the restaurant and certainly wouldn't want to see ANY business fail in this village! Hope the Turkey isn't forgotton on Christmas day as egg sandwiches all round!!
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30 customer party-jeez he didnt half drop the ball there. Extremely bad business
Still I always prefer to find as I see so will give him a go-if rubbish never return
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That's not good to hear Diverbaz, such a shame as when he catered for over 40 of us everyone was really impressed with the food and the service.
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Well Fi, I read on here I believe that you are going there for new year. Better check he will be open. He states on his flyers etc that he is open every day, according to other people on face book he has not been open all weekend.
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Agree with Elaina there are other restaurants with hard-working honest people running them who have proven reputations, which are also lots of fun to visit. Why run the risk of embarrassment of being let down on important occasions. Until he repays what he owes to the Brit he has taken advantage of I personally wont be lining his pockets - it seems he can do that for himself.
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Baz.
He wasn't open because he has had builders in putting up a new roof over the bar/pool table area and Yes he should have thought to announce that he was closed.
Yes you read correctly that we and lots of others are going there for the New Year and so far we have never been let down by Park Alya, so no need for your concern over my New Year Eve's Night out.
I'm seeing him tomorrow so will ask him why he didn't cater for your party and at least then we will have both sides of the issue.
Fi
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iwent there last night on the way home for Mouzaka take away iwas under the impression its buy one get one free its not so be careful only on pides and pizas but that not how i read the menu
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so no need for your concern over my New Year Eve's Night out.
I'm seeing him tomorrow so will ask him why he didn't cater for your party and at least then we will have both sides of the issue.
Fi, There is no need for your concern over OUR problem either then!!!!!!!
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Hi Echostar, the advert for last night reads thus:
"Tomorrow Night (Monday) Pide, Pizza & Pasta. Buy one get one free all day frm noon till late. Includes take away"
Not sure where you saw anything about Moussaka being Buy One Get One Free.
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Originally posted by Diverbaz 1
Don't bother, booked for 30 people 5 days ago, he told us about the varied menu including the roast pork, we turn up today and he forgot, couldn't even do a sandwich for us. We went to the Fesetta who catered for us without prior notice, excellent service from them on the spur of the moment, couldn't do enough for us. Forget Alya (I didn't want to buy one of his shoddy properties anyway) He's a con man. Only talking from my experience mind go there at your own risk, he may have food even!!!!!!!
So, if Park Alya had "remembered" your booking you would have been perfectly happy eating there?
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I bought a property off Ali Yaba and you can check on this forum what I have said about the process and the property I bought, it went as smooth as silk not a single problem as did the other 9 properties on my complex, I have of course had minor problems which were always put right, I have never had any problems at Park Alya or with Robin Hood and it is true what they say "Hell hath no fury etc etc " :D
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Our lovely villa was built by Ali and I agree with Mr Tuck, the process went through smoothly, we were kept informed at all times. There were the usual snaggings to be done after we moved in. We are delighted with our home.
Likewise, we have never had a bad meal at Alya and if we did, we would take it up with the man himself.
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Originally posted by friar tuck
I bought a property off Ali Yaba and you can check on this forum what I have said about the process and the property I bought, it went as smooth as silk not a single problem as did the other 9 properties on my complex, I have of course had minor problems which were always put right, I have never had any problems at Park Alya or with Robin Hood and it is true what they say "Hell hath no fury etc etc " :D
That reminds me of that other well known saying Friar, I'm all right Jack!!:P
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Originally posted by friar tuck
I bought a property off Ali Yaba and you can check on this forum what I have said about the process and the property I bought, it went as smooth as silk not a single problem as did the other 9 properties on my complex, I have of course had minor problems which were always put right, I have never had any problems at Park Alya or with Robin Hood and it is true what they say "Hell hath no fury etc etc " :D
No it's not a case of "hell hath no fury" as you so eloquently put it - it really is simply just a case of give me back the money that I am owed because I have kids and it belongs to them - it is part of their inheritence. If Ali Yaba has any sense of common decency he will do just that and I will go away and let bygones be bygones and people there that know me will know I will do just that. Do you have kids, my betting is that you don't, but if you did you would understand. By the way I heard that Greenvine had had a number of problems with the roof and lots of other problems that were not dealt with as promptly as you say, and look at the number of problems up at Olive Garden that's without the Cadianda needing a complete new roof - obviously the silicon and bubblewrap did not solve the problem there:D:D. I wonder how many Efes your posts of undying support are costing him and likewise his requests on Facebook asking people to post nice things about his restaurant on this forum:D:D:D. I am saying no more on this issue think of me as you like. To be quite honest I don't really care your opinions are one sided anyway.
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are his kebabs nice-am in the mood for a kebab
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Originally posted by Rindaloo
Hi Echostar, the advert for last night reads thus:
"Tomorrow Night (Monday) Pide, Pizza & Pasta. Buy one get one free all day frm noon till late. Includes take away"
Not sure where you saw anything about Moussaka being Buy One Get One Free.
Hi Lynn
is not Mousaaka pasta then i thought it was but then iam not a cook its just that it was pointed out to me and they read it the same as idid :) so as i was working late in uzumlu i popped in any way ended up with acouple of Big Macs
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So, if Park Alya had "remembered" your booking you would have been perfectly happy eating there?
Bit of a strange post Eric. If you were to book for a wedding, birthday party, New Year etc, etc, I think everybody would be happy if it wasn't "forgotten", but how unhappy would anybody be if thier booking was "forgotten" and you turn up on the day and the place is closed. I think you and Fi would be the loudest complainers if it happened to you.
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You missed my point Baz, he forgot your booking and so to quote you;
"Forget Alya (I didn't want to buy one of his shoddy properties anyway) He's a con man. Only talking from my experience"
A bit harsh to say he is a con man and he builds shoddy properties just because he forgot your booking. My point was; if he had not forgot your booking would he, in your opinion, still be a con man and build shoddy properties? If the answer is yes, then why did you go there in the 1st place?
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By the way I heard that Greenvine had had a number of problems with the roof and lots of other problems that were not dealt with as promptly as you say, and look at the number of problems up at Olive Garden that's without the Cadianda needing a complete new roof - obviously the silicon and bubblewrap did not solve the problem there[
Elaine, I know very little of your issue with Ali Yaba, but to drag other complexes and issues into an argument over dining arrangemnets for Xmas and new year, is not right. We have no problems or issues with Ali's building of Olive Garden, and I would defend him, in that all problems with snagging issues were promptly and correctly attended to. Other problems with roofing etc, were not the fault of Robin Hood builders, but were due to us as a collective, employing cowboy builders ourselves. We are more than happy with our build, our properties and our lives in Uzumlu, and no, before you accuse me also of being supplied with 'plenty of Efes' I am most definately not in Mr Yabba's pay, as those of you that know me, will more than testify.
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Originally posted by ECHOSTAR
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Originally posted by Rindaloo
Hi Echostar, the advert for last night reads thus:
"Tomorrow Night (Monday) Pide, Pizza & Pasta. Buy one get one free all day frm noon till late. Includes take away"
Not sure where you saw anything about Moussaka being Buy One Get One Free.
Hi Lynn
is not Mousaaka pasta then i thought it was but then iam not a cook its just that it was pointed out to me and they read it the same as idid :) so as i was working late in uzumlu i popped in any way ended up with acouple of Big Macs
No, there is no pasta in Moussaka. I can't imagine where you read that Moussaka was available on Monday night. Would appreciate you saying where you saw it so it can be sorted out. But have no idea where, as on Facebook it clearly states Moussaka is available on Tuesday and that status wasn't published till about 1am today.
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Eric, As I said before, there is no need for you to concern yourself.
Regarding the properties, he was trying to push the properties on myself and friends with us, the ones behind Alya, as a Clerk of the Works I was overseeing multi million pound contracts, including housing contracts, and his work is shoddy by my standards, other people may accept it, their choice. I have posted MY experience, just because you don't agree does not make me wrong.
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Scunner,can you put some advertisements on then we can brew up? ;)
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Season of goodwill nearly upon us ,Ho,Ho, bloody Ho!!
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"As I said before, there is no need for you to concern yourself."
When you make a public posting on a public forum it is open to anybody to make a comment or ask a question. If you choose not to directly answer a question that is your choice.
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Ho ho to you as well Calvin ;):D
Love the new logo Scunner..pmsl
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I dont get the connection between gripes about building work (or not) and ordering a meal in a restaurant? If he alledgedly missed a couple of tiles off someones roof what in gods name has that got to do with how good the pide will be?
Some of you more clever members can surely think of a few puns connecting the building and restaurant trades-I am in thicko mood today
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Oh dear, we have a Turkish Woody. Pity he cant be deported as well, thats only my opinion, which i am intitled to. Before i get shouted at. But each to his or her own. But you wouldnt catch me in there.
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well each to their own indeed-all I am saying is I judge a restaurant on its food service etc.
When I go to a restauant in Turkey I only ask for a menu-not the accounts, owners life history, latest TAB magazine etc.
Lets be honest if you were to go, especially to high turnover touristy areas, anywhere in Turkey, and you decide to avoid every place that is rumoured to have dodgey history-you would starve!
Lifes too short-good food and service he survives, crappy stuff he sinks. Simples
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Originally posted by scooby doo
Oh dear, we have a Turkish Woody. Pity he cant be deported as well, thats only my opinion, which i am intitled to. Before i get shouted at. But each to his or her own. But you wouldnt catch me in there.
Jackie, you and I know the truth hurts, let them get on with it mate,no morals, will they learn[?] I doubt it ;):Das I posted earlier, I'm all right Jack ;) (no pun intended) we will not mention his English builder partner, who is still waiting for his 200k[?] but all is well in the restaurant, good luck not: :)[:(!]
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Oh my God I feel physically sick but then again I knew I wasn't the first and I very much doubt I'll be the last. When I first visited to Uzumlu in 2003 an english couple who lived there but then moved to India (some of you on here no doubt remember them)told me he was a lovable rogue with a silver tongue and that I should not believe a word he told me - but he has the "gift of the gab". Enjoy your meals!!!!!
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Lovely night tonight at Alya. Good food, smashing company. Thanks Ali
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Yes, brilliant night, delicious food and excellent company, thanks Ali :)
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Glad you enjoyed it, sleep well!
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Originally posted by Rindaloo
Lovely night tonight at Alya. Good food, smashing company. Thanks Ali
Charming I'm sure.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/protectionforbuyers/signatures?page=12
This I believe to be a quote from your good self - so what's changed., Obviously you are now supportive of the unscrupulous Turks that rip off the unsuspecting Brits. So what has changed. Fickle or what. I was an unsuspecting Brit who was ripped off but then again I don't serve cheap meals.
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Originally posted by elaina
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Originally posted by Rindaloo
Lovely night tonight at Alya. Good food, smashing company. Thanks Ali
Charming I'm sure.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/protectionforbuyers/signatures?page=12
This I believe to be a quote from your good self - so what's changed., Obviously you are now supportive of the unscrupulous Turks that rip off the unsuspecting Brits. So what has changed. Fickle or what. I was an unsuspecting Brit who was ripped off but then again I don't serve cheap meals.
Dear me, Elaine. I stand by what I said on that petition. I also stand by what I have said on here. We bought from ALi and are very happy with our home. Your case is going through the courts, I understand. I hope justice is served (and I have said THAT before).
But, as I have also said before, I will eat at Ali's. I am fed up with going round in circles on this as I have said all this before and will not be discussing my reasons again as it is getting boring.
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yawn yawn
(Rindi, not at you, but at the thread).
Diverbaz was disappointed and won't be going back.
Eric was disappointed last week with another establishment and won't be going back.
We are all grown ups and can make our own choices.
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agree with Pookie, give it a rest
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Scunner, don't you think you should step in and stop the forum being used to slag people off ?
Twinkle01
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Totally agree Twinkle,it is about time to lock this topic, please Mr Scunner!!! mind you as soon as anything is posted about the Alya Restaurant .the rant will start again .Give us all a break from this back stabbing .
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It's not slagging people off if it is the truth is it? If he closed every post where someone gets "slagged" off. there wouldn't be much to read. Just as a matter of interest does anything else go on in Uzumlu apart from eating out? All we ever get is restaurant reviews. Not being sarcastic just that it would be nice to know if there is anything else to do up there.:D
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I just think it's time to close this topic!
Twinkle01
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Mercury, would you like us to post about how much we enjoy living here, how much we enjoy pottering in our gardens, taking dogs for walks in the pine forests lining the mountain sides, watching the rural lifestyle going on about us, -the peace and beauty that surrounds us? It isn't ALL about eating out. Incredibly a heck of a lot of people don't eat out at all (I am sure the same applies in Calis, Fethiye, Ovacik).
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Does he object to all the free advertising his events get on here? I understand not, on Facebook he actively requests that people promote him here on CBF. It would be a lovely fluffy world where we can take all the good and hide the bad. CBF not just allows, it actively encourages members to advertise local events - something bars and restaurants enjoy and use (or ask their customers to).
The point is that all opinions have a place here and that includes Elaina or BM06. If the man has his side of the story he can come here and tell it (or ask a friend to). If Elaina has been conned by the owner I am sure it is very galling for her to see her fellow countryfolk putting that out of their mind and lining his pocket further.
Please advise the owner that all references to him can be removed if he feels insulted or hard done by - but he'll have to stop soliciting people to post the nice things too.
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Game,set and match?
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Rindaloo, I think the point Mercury was trying to make is that 99% of the Uzumlu posts ARE about restaurants (apologise if I'm wrong, Mercury) And, yes, that's is about all that happens apart from the quizzes which, believe it or not, happen in restaurants! Oh, and the Mushroom festival once a year where no-one finds any mushrooms because the locals have probably already nabbed them
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Originally posted by peecee
Rindaloo, I think the point Mercury was trying to make is that 99% of the Uzumlu posts ARE about restaurants (apologise if I'm wrong, Mercury) And, yes, that's is about all that happens apart from the quizzes which, believe it or not, happen in restaurants! Oh, and the Mushroom festival once a year where no-one finds any mushrooms because the locals have probably already nabbed them
LOL, yes I know what point Mercury was making. And my post was making the point you have also now made. We lead a nice quite old life here. -Apart from the odd rukkus on here, eh! ;)
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At least the rukkus's, or is it rukki, let us know who's still breathing ;) ;)
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Originally posted by Diverbaz 1
Don't bother, booked for 30 people 5 days ago, he told us about the varied menu including the roast pork, we turn up today and he forgot, couldn't even do a sandwich for us. We went to the Fesetta who catered for us without prior notice, excellent service from them on the spur of the moment, couldn't do enough for us. Forget Alya (I didn't want to buy one of his shoddy properties anyway) He's a con man. Only talking from my experience mind go there at your own risk, he may have food even!!!!!!!
well said diverbaz
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Originally posted by twinkle01
Scunner, don't you think you should step in and stop the forum being used to slag people off ?
Twinkle01
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Agreed, me thinks I have had enough of CBF bye bye
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Sorry to hear that you can't stomach opinions Friar. As a team we do try to allow all people to air their opinions, not just those who have somewhere talk up or an event to advertise for free. The owner of Park Alya doesn't see CBF as a place that is detrimental to him or his reputation, far from it - he sees it as a place to encourage people to post about his restaurant. If he isn't bothered maybe you shouldn't be, but then you have walked out of CBF in dramatic fashion several times over the years. Slipping away quietly has never been your style!
It appears to me that half of Uzumlu love half of the restaurants there and hate the other half, and of course it is never the same restaurants or the same half. Given that, we will never please all of the people all of the time so forgive us for not bothering to try.