Armando Nicolas PJ

A no-frills Turkish restaurant that opens till late, offering the most scrumptious kebabs, salads, and soups this part of Brooklyn. They serve a generous serving of homemade bread (probably the best we've ever tried again and again anywhere in the borough), warm and tempting, together with our meal, as well as offers half orders of most items on their menu. We keep coming back to this place, and we know exactly why.

+46

Peter Salzman

This restaurant is a gem of Midwood. The people of Midwood are religious Jews, Turks, Russian, Hispanic, Balkan, and Arab. We're immigrants. You won't find "New York quality" here, but you will find lots of damned good ethnic food. Lots of Turkish and middle eastern eateries in this neighborhood, most notably Memo on Kings Highway. It's hard not comparing Aksaray with Memo... I truly love Memo, and the people who work there are some of the nicest people in Midwood, but as another reviewer points out, Aksaray might actually have the upper hand in the food department. The waitresses are very friendly. I think they may have too many tables to wait on because it's slightly difficult getting their attention, but that's not their fault. I think they need another waitress here. When you walk in, you walk past a counter that has uncooked kebabs and meats that you can purchase and cook at home, along side a dessert counter where you'll see 3 different kinds of baklava as well as other desserts like rice pudding. The food here bursts with flavor. This is a true gem of the neighborhood. House Bread: A+ Very flavorful breads with a beautiful golden crust on top and a delicious crunchy/chewy crust on the bottom. The inside is fluffy and delicious. Goes really well with the olive oil supplied with each table. Magnificent bread! Lamb Soup: C+ Not overly fond of this soup. I was expecting something like Harcho, but got something like New England Clam Chowder with lamb replacing clam. Slightly sour, and very homogeneous the way chowders can be. Not my favorite. Lentil Soup: B+ An excellent lentil soup. It's not a "chunky" kind of soup: it's not one of those lentil soups where you'll be chewing the lentils. It's more liquidy than that. But great flavors. Above average. Humus: A- An excellent hummus. Garlicky, flavorful, smooth. If you like hummus, you'll want to try it. Lamb Adana Kebab: A- Very soft and succulent lamb. Absolutely delicious. Probably not appropriate for small kids because it's ever so slightly spicy, but it's perfect for adults! ;-P Iskender Kebab: A+ Might be the best Iskender kebab I've ever eaten. Firstly, they use that A+ yummy bread. Secondly, the lamb gyro they use for the iskender kebab is soft, juicy, and bursting with flavor. Thirdly, the yogurt they use is A+ as well. And fourthly, the pièce de résistance is the brilliant and skilled way the chef fries the bread and uses oils and peppers to enhance the flavor of the dish. It couldn't possibly be any better than it is. Aksaray Kofte Special: A+ The same as the iskender kebab, but instead of using lamb gyro, they meat is ground lamb "mini meatballs". All the same comments apply. This might be my favorite dish on the menu. Bakalva: A Delicious. Still crispy; not soggy.

Steven Nechamkin

The restaurant is located in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. They prepare Turkish cuisine and are open 24 hours. Soups, salads, appetizers, entrees, sandwiches, desserts and beverages are available. I ordered the ezme appetizer, chicken gyro platter and grilled kofte platter. The food was tasty and well-prepared. Friendly and helpful staff.

+4

Rebekah Chong

Update review: food was delicious the first time so I get them another shot. Everything is upright this time in beautiful bags. Wish some of the orders were fuller. But still good and very presentable this time. 👍 All the food was shoved into a bag vertical and my food came mushed together; not appealing to eat for a $20 appetizer; all my other meals/desserts came vertical, my rice pudding liquid leaked everywhere due to vertically placed and dropped on the floor without ringing my bell at all..so long for a $127 worth of food.

Tamara Tahlov

Unreal!!! This place is open 24/7!!! Best feeling ever to get a good meal any time of day. Love that they have all the meat freshly made and you can see the kebobs fore they are cooked. The kabobs were seasoned well, flavourful, juicy and cooked to perfection. The gyro wasnt that great. I personally wish it was cooked longer to get more of a crisp to it.

WAQAD

The food is always fresh. I usually dine in. They have great table service and a friendly staff. You can make your own combination of meats on a plate from off the menu. The downside is that they forget to bring the whole order at once. They usually forget to give you the sauces. Sometimes they forget to warm up the bread. The bread is good when warmed up and eaten with the hummus.

+11

James Q (Calais79)

This was the first time we tried this small local Turkish restaurant and we were definitely looking forward to it. I order the large lamb chops ($27) and my wife ordered the mixed platter ($30). The menu seems to be fairly priced when compared to how much most diners and small restaurants charge these days. The place seemed clean and had a nice family atmosphere. It's a pretty small/intimate place. The bread they bring as an appetizer was delicious, we both ate a lot of it as we were starving when we arrived for a very late lunch. The server seemed new and accidentally brought two orders of soup to our table, saw our puzzled faces and confirmed that it belonged at another table and brought it to them instead. The entrees were excellent, the lamb chops were juicy and tender. The mixed platter is an excellent choice to sample a smaller portion of a few of the different individual entrees available. I found the price/value for the food we received to be very good. The dessert was one tres leches cake and one rice pudding. They were both absolutely excellent. The rice pudding is a fairly large serving and the tres leches is a reasonable size, taller than it is wide. Both were not overly sweet, they were just right. The problems began when the cheque was brought to the table. They came with a device to charge my card which is convenient. However, the screen showed a total that was more than we anticipated and it offered three main option "15% tip, 20%tip and 25%tip" below it in small letters was the "no tip" option. Doing the math in my head the total didn't add up so I asked if the tip was already included, the waitress said "no". So I asked for an itemized receipt. Our meals plus tax added up exactly to the dollar amount I expected but then it said "15% gratuity". The gratuity was already factored into the bill but the device only showed the total including that 15% gratuity and offered me the opportunity to add an ADDITIONAL 15-25% tip without acknowledging that the total already had gratuity factored in. When I charged my card and selected "no tip" (because I had already paid 15%) the waitress had an attitude and forcefully dropped the device onto another table as she walked away and presumably went to go get the printed charge receipt that I had selected on screen (as opposed to email receipt, no receipt, etc.). She never came back to the table, we got our jackets and went to the counter to ask for it and found it laying on the front counter. I felt like they tried to scam me and every other customer into paying gratuity twice. Initially by lying through omission (not showing the initial gratuity on the total while asking for a tip) and then directly after I verbally asked if the total already included a tip, to which she said "no". Overall the place was good, the dessert was excellent but the service was poor and the payment processing was deceptive. It seems like they count on customers just paying via charge card without doing the math, just assuming that it all adds up and adding a further 15%+ tip.

+1

Illan Weiner

They’re sneaky in this place. They already include an 18% gratuity tip, yet they try to hide it very well and give you 3 options to add on even more tip. Food is decent, nothing special. It’s the best place you’ll find to eat during sleeping hours, so can’t really complain.

ferhat turan

I orderd lamb gyro on turkish bread one lamb head soup and one tripe soup i drive there at this cold weather. And its happening second time last time they gave me two lentil soup instead two tripe soup. Thanks god this time at least they gave me one tripe and one lentil soup. I dont make complain about the food i complain about nasty girls on the counter . She was raising her voice to me i stead of being polite . Her excuse was the other cashier didnt understand whats lamb head soup. Its not my problem if someone doesnt know what they serving. The owner has to give more attention to the cashiers how they are nasty to the customers

Eylul Guven

I ordered Iskender, but instead of butter they poured honey or syrup like for baklava. It was awful. I miss my cultural food, but it shouldn’t be introduced like this. It made me lose my taste for my own culture’s food.