Testi Restaurant Reviews Summary

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Staff were really nice & made my birthday even more special with their service 👍"
• "Honestly Can’t stress how great this place really is - from the welcoming people at reception to the decor of the restaurant to the well presented staff."
• "Staff were very friendly and tentative."
• "Lovely staff who bend over backwards to help when I visited."
• "Staff are always nice and friendly."
• "The waitress here was super warm, welcoming, jolly and uplifting."
• "Amazing service from the two young ladies (Ayse & ceren) always at hand to help you have a great experience at dinner."

Cons:

• "First of all I would like to say there was no one to greet and show us our seats it was after 10 minutes of waiting around clueless that a waiter showed us to our seats."
• "They are very unorganized and slow they've failed all orders what we asked, also they've changed the tables many times including us we order soup and it tooks 45min to get it!!!"
• "Service a bit poor.. to be winner of best Turkish restaurant in North Ldn…"
• "They hadn't set plates on our table for starters, placed a bowl of salad 15mins after ordering & we had to ask for bread and other starters such as humus."
• "The waitress was fully ignoring us every time we tried to ask how long our food would take."
• "Service was extremely slow and staff forgetful."
• "The service was extremely rude from the very beginning."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The lamb chops and all the salads and flatbreads that came with them were better than ever."
• "The food is so flavoursome and fresh, this was a real treat."
• "Great food, great service!"
• "Food was absolutely lovely. Big portions."
• "The dishes and quality were outstanding."
• "Everything from the chops to the olives had been seasoned and prepared with care and lots of flavour."
• "The chicken shish is consistently outstanding."

Cons:

• "Both lamb serma and chicken serma beyti, the bread was all undercooked."
• "The taramasalata was flavourless."
• "I personally didn't enjoy the meat I found the chicken wings over cooked and dry, kofta was also dry."
• "The ezme salad was a watery mess and the adana kofte couldn't be eaten because it was so salty."
• "The food did not taste good or looked appetizing to say the least, Adana smelled raw and naan in beyti was stale."
• "As a vegetarian, the food was contaminated with the cooking from the grill, so it tasted of meat."
• "Food was ok, I couldn’t finish my dish as the lamb had a salty taste to it."

Atmosphere and Decor

Pros:

• "The atmosphere is very laid back which makes for a comfortable dining experience."
• "It's dirt cheap yet high quality - everything comes with bread and salad - and they supply a goodie bag for when (not if) the huge portions get too much."
• "Lovely place to take the family or go out with friends, reasonable prices and the food is great."
• "Lovely atmosphere with friendly staff."
• "The ambience was fantastic."
• "Excellent, comfortable seating, with lively Mediterranean tunes playing softly in the background."
• "The overall ambience was relaxing and pleasurable."

Cons:

• "I wouldn't recommend this place if you had anywhere to be after or wanted to spend less than £70 for two people."
• "New decoration is more 'british modern' and not 'Turkish traditional' like before and looks worse in comparison."
• "Avoid during COVID... too crowded, speakers on loud meaning people need to talk louder, tables crammed together and understaffed."
• "Very noisy at times…"
• "Music a little too loud to talk to the person sitting next to me."
• "It needs to have disabled Slide to allow buggy or wheelchair users to access the place."
• "The prices have gone up - and they've even started trying to add a 12.5% service charge!"

Value and Pricing

Pros:

• "It's dirt cheap yet high quality - everything comes with bread and salad - and they supply a goodie bag for when (not if) the huge portions get too much."
• "Lovely place to take the family or go out with friends, reasonable prices and the food is great."
• "And it’s reasonably priced."
• "The presumed owner was very warm and welcoming with even a handshake and the Turkish food was beautiful and at a very good price."
• "Ever so slightly more expensive than some but well worth it."
• "Reasonably priced and big portion sizes too, we had to take the rest of ours home."
• "The food in this place is excellent and worth every penny."

Cons:

• "I wouldn't recommend this place if you had anywhere to be after or wanted to spend less than £70 for two people."
• "Also kebab's taste very horrible and they charge you more than what other restaurants charge."
• "Quite pricey for the area."
• "It was more expensive than I would have thought."
• "The platters were a lot smaller than before, and their prices increased greatly."
• "Since the new owners this has gone downhill no quality for the price the food is low amount."
• "Just an over priced bill."