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| - Anatolia is on my restaurant rotation list. Food has always been good. It always feels like they are understaffed, but that may be due to the configuration of the space. The tables they are in charge of are not constantly in their peripheral.
There is parking in the back. We've never had to park on the street over the years. Restaurant has walls of windows, making it very bright, which I love.
Here are dishes we frequently order:
- cold appetizer combo: good for those to try different cold appetizers in smaller doses. In the end we knew we just love baba ganoosh.
- baba ganoosh. Ask for whole wheat bread (each table gets a basket) to go with it. You can see the eggplants. Very light. We order it every time.
- Turkish tea: is a kind of black tea. Strong, fragrant.
- combo of two meats, kefte, donor, filet mignon, chicken. Comes with plain white rice, cabbage salad, and cucumber yogurt. The cabbage and yogurt are great balance against the meat; tangy, tad sweet, cooling. Health-conscious folks should probably go with visible meat, eg beef mignon, chicken cubes, rather than ground meat, eg donor, kefte. I like it, simple, straight forward, healthful.
- lamb okra: for a period of time I was obsessed with it; had to order it every time. There's something about the tomato-butter sauce. I eventually got tired of it because I feel the sauce has too much butter than tomato to my liking. Feel heavy afterwards.
- lamb shank: today is my first time ordering it, because it's not on the menu. It's not the lamb chops, which are on the menu. Lamb shank are offered in limited quantities. Today they only made 3 orders. It was braised for 3-4 hours; soft, not gamy at all. Similar sauce as in lamb okra, perhaps less butter. Pretty good.
- yogurt kebab dishes: they have a series of Adana/kebab which essentially all have pita crouton underneath meat with yogurt sauce. I love it. The tomato sauce tastes similar as above. I think they use the same tomato base throughout different dishes.
- liver cube hot appetizer: it's rare to see liver on a restaurant menu. I liked it. Big portion for an appetizer.
- all their Turkish desserts are great:
If you want crispy: baklava; kunefe, kadayif (see other yelpers photos, texture on top reminds me of bird's nest) interesting texture.
If you want soft: Kazandibi (the menu says milk pudding, but it's not liquid-y. It's rolled up, kind of like a pillow. Try it.), sutlac (rice pudding)
--- warning, un-appetizing scene below ---
Today after we finished the meal, as we were signing the check, we noticed the whole wall of the windows was covered in some type of flying insects. We mentioned it to our server when came to collect the check. He literally said "oh sh*t! Let me tell manager". The manager came, the two of them, plus us customers, are all in awe. For a blink second I felt like we were in a disaster movie. God sends swarms of flies to warn you of the flood coming. The manager decided to vacuum them and quickly acted on it. This is the first time in years we've ever experienced it, and the staff acted on it promptly, so I don't fault them on this one.
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