Lovely bar and restaurant. I highly recommend the cocktails, which are delicious and very easily enjoyed. Service from our waiter 'Monia' was friendly and efficient. A must stop when in Kalkan.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Brunch
Price per person
₺1,000+
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Edit: saw the exact same £20 leg of lamb we ate as a ready meal in a supermarket for less than £5!
Nice setting, poor service, average food, high prices.
I’m not sure if this restaurant just had a bad night, but for the money I was not impressed personally. The waiter strongly recommended we all try their slow cooked lamb shank, to give credit where it is due it was certainly slow cooked as it melted off the bone but it tasted like they had forgotten to season it.
Certainly not worth the 569 TL (£19!!) as it tasted quite bland. It was a beautiful big piece of meat and the meal looked great, but it all looks the same once you’re finished. The taste is so much more important.
I could overlook the lamb being bland if not for the rice, it was undercooked for everyone at the table. The rice I have had whilst in Kalkan has been different to elsewhere, but crunchy rice is undercooked rice. It definitely wasn’t anything in the rice, it was the rice itself that was crunchy.
It was incredibly off-putting and makes me wonder how such a busy restaurant with considerably high reviews can manage to not cook something so simple. I cannot believe professional chefs would be capable of undercooking rice so they must have amateur chefs in the kitchen.
To top it off the service was not great as they promised us a free bottle of wine and conveniently forgot to strike it off the bill. We also felt a little rushed the whole time, and certain aspects of the service were a bit strange - they didn’t give us a food menu until after we ordered drinks, felt like a tactic to encourage us to stay. There were also other little issues like drinks forgotten, and just generally slow service overall.
The only good thing about the service was the gentleman with the English accent, he seemed very friendly and welcoming and tried his best to make sure we were all comfortable, but unfortunately the same cannot be said for everyone else.
This restaurant looked good, but the service was poor and the food was okay at best, considering how much we paid for the meal we were not impressed as we have had better meals for less money elsewhere. I would recommend avoiding this particular place based on our experience.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
₺200+
Food: 2
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 2
Nice view. But we’ve got a bad experience cause our waiter was so rude with us when we gave up drinks before food order. He said something rudely in Turkish, went and called another waiter. Meneger didn’t even try to excuse. He just tried to justify that waiter🤷♂️
Everything was very delicious, main courses were well selected, all ingredients super fresh and service was outstanding! we felt like home!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
We got the pancakes and english breakfast and they were both a bad experience. The waiting time was too long with no visible reason for it and definitely overpriced for what it was
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Breakfast
Price per person
₺200+
Food: 1
Service: 4
Atmosphere: 3
Food is good. We had some Mezes and bbq fish. (Levrek and Copra) I can still taste the delicious bbq fish in my mouth. Service was great. And of course the view is beautiful.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Good location at the harbour with sea view and reasonable prices service was excellent food was delicious am offer everyone thank to our Waiter ayhan
Service
Take out
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
₺160–180
We’ve been to Kalkan twice now and each time we’ve been we’ve spent most of our mornings enjoying breakfast here. An incredibly relaxed atmosphere, extremely attentive table service and a fantastic view of the harbour. They go the extra mile to keep the kids entertained as well.
Honestly could not recommend a better place to start the day.
Thank you again to the team at Gustos for starting our days in a relaxed, chilled manner! (Especially Silus!)
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Breakfast
Price per person
₺100–120
