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I don't usually go for Turkish food but here we ar...

I don't usually go for Turkish food but here we are, after a night at the movies we picked this cafe as they have a Tastecard offer for buy 1 get 1 free on food, which we used on our savoury food.

The counter display is quite pretty and they have ice cream, chocolate and cakes, which should delight anyone with a sweet tooth! They have chocolate samples at the counter which we took too much advantage of so when we sat down to order I couldn't bear to order any more cakes or sweet things.

I opted for the chilled Turkish coffee (with hints of chocolate) and Wendy L opted for Salep. We then ordered the beef and cheese quiche with potato and cheese borekitas. The Salep was really good with cinnamon sprinkled on top. It reminds me of Chai Tea latte from starbucks, except the consistency of the drink has been thickened with the salep flour. Turkish coffee was ok but I was not sure about the film of chocolate on the top with some sort of mousse consistency. It was not something that I would order again.

The quiche was really nice, although it was pretty obvious that it's something just reheated. The borekitas were a disaster. It was hard inside and it felt like the potato got mashed together into a solid lump so the taste was horrendous. I wanted to give up after eating half of one.

Whilst our order was delivered the waitress gave to us two macarons and before we could query whether these were complimentary, she dashed off. Later on in our meal she came back, said sorry wrong order, and promptly took them away again. I tried to scout with an eagle eye whether she put the macarons back onto the general pile of availability and it might have been....disgusting. We could have licked these...And what would they have done if I decided to eat these? Would they charge?

Service was terrible although they tried to redeem themselves at times. One of the waitress was obviously in training after looking at her tag, she had a dismissive attitude when we were not ready to order and when my friend tried to use the toilet downstairs she shouted at her not to go downstairs the toilets were being cleaned! Another waitress helpfully suggested that we use the disabled WC on this level.

We asked the waitress for a bill, got completely ignored after that for 10 minutes while we waited impatiently. I was watching the same waitress I spoke to before ignore the bill and went about cleaning tables for close of business. The gentleman at the counter eventually gave us the bill but told us to pay at the cashier.

Overall, the food is not that amazing. I liked the salep only and might come back only to drink that, takeaway if possible please. Service is atrocious.

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