THIS PLACE IS A DISGRACE TO TURKISH FOOD AND HOSPITALITY.Upon arrival the first thing we encountered was the 'general manager' Erol reprimanding his staff waving his hands and shouting with absolutely no regard for guests. The very opposite of what the owner claims to be a 'restaurant full of hospitable staff'. This scowling little man was nothing but rude and borderline aggressive to all of our party.Myself and my 15 guests were gathered for a special occasion people travelled from out of London and hadn't seen each other for some 20 years!The 'Turkish' experience was ruined with OVERLY SALTY FOOD, and im not talking the odd dish. Everyones starter was INEDIBLE.The main course was slabs of unattractive left over cuts of meat that smelt bad and tasted like rubber..DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY AND SAVE YOUR LIVER, i was brought up with Turkish food and this place should be ashamed to serve such rubbish food and charge for it even when you tell them its not right. And then add on 'hand written' service charge! The wine was like vinegar and at 23.45 pounds per bottle you would expect something decent.The chef and the management were too bust watching the football to notice that we were leaving with a bad taste in our mouths, in fact the chef needs to get his taste buds examined or at least taste the food prior to serving.Please dont waste your money, this place is for the 'uneducated palate'. SHAME ON THEM.

A large group of us were looking to have a nice night out but what a rip-off!
The food was the inedible, The starters were disapointing, the fried calamari was dripping in oil and the meze platter was tasteless and salty.
The Main course of fish was undercooked with no seasoning, the mixed lamb and chicken meal was overcooked and tasted like rubber.
Our dessert was a fruit platter where the centre piece was a pinapple with no pinapple inside! just stuffed with melon pieces.
The house red wine tasted vinegary and bottles varied in taste? maybe because they were re-filling the bottles?
All in all the experience was very disapointing and left everyone upset and out of pocket, especially as it was our work Xmas dinner.
Couldn't possibly recommend this resturant to anyone.

From the team

We have been to this restaurant several times and have brought large groups of people. We have no complaint with the food, service or entertainment (except on each occasion the waiter forgets to bring coffee and needs to be reminded and the music, especially by the female singer is far too loud). However, on our last visit in November 2011 they added 4 extra set menu meals and 3 bottles of wine to our bill. Because of the noise, low lighting and the way the bill was set out we not see the error until we got home. It took nearly 4 weeks and several phone calls to recoup some of the overcharging and that only consisted of the 4 meals and part of the service charge. We never received a refund for the 3 bottles of wine that we did not consume.Efes 2 is a great restaurant for special celebrations but a warning - SCRUTINISE THE BILL VERY CAREFULLY before you pay.

Was quite excited to be going with friends to an authentic Turkish restaurant. What a disappointment it was! If thats Turkish food then I wasn't at all impressed. Starters were passable but the main was inedible. The dessert was disappointing too. Won't be recommending Efes 2. Sorry!

Terrible restaurant.

Entertainment is so bad it's good - but other than that comedy aspect there is not much positive to say.

The £20.50 vegetarian option is actually a total rip off given the plate comes with taramasalata. The main course is poor. The staff make no effort to meet even simple requests and are actually very rude to you if you dare to explain something they've got wrong.

If you don't care about the food, price and being forced to pay a 15% service charge for no service (yet hundreds of waiters walking around) then it's ok for big groups who want to laugh at bad singers and bad dancing. Otherwise, avoid at all costs.

Efes 2 is an average Turkish restaurant in terms of its food although the portions are large the flavour does not hit that high note.

I pretty much did enjoy the lamb chops simply because it was nicely spiced and tender. The starters of spicy sausage and hummus with plenty of bread were lovely.

The accompanying cheese pastry was too greasy and lacking any flavour. Overall cant really complain we did enjoy the atmosphere and had a fun time at Efes.

The worst restaurant ever I have been to in the world.The people who work there have no manners. What they do comes out natural.

The food is bad and not worth the money.The waiters do not know anything about customer service.

Drop staff on you while cleaning the tables, pushes the dancing customers and the ones sitting at their tables to make their way to the kitchen.

Keep shouting around and telling of each other. They even make a circle around dancing people as if they have never seen people dancing.

The singersflirtst each other and forgets about the customer and even say you guys should leave in a very rude way (not joking by the way).

They laugh at customers who are there to have fun and have a good night out while paying a lot of money for the food and the entertainment which isdefinitelyy not worth money.

STAY AWAY from EFES 2 if youdon'tt want to be treated badly after paying a lot of money.

On the whole I was extremely disappointed with this restaurant. I am a huge fan of Turkish cuisine but there were a number of reasons why I can't in all honesty recommend it.

i) The food took too long to arrive (after repeated attempts to accelerate proceeding from our party). We sat down to dinner around 7.30pm and the main course arrived just after 10pm. We were unable to wait until dessert since The London Underground closes around midnight.

ii) I believe that the Set Menu does not present good value and for a vegetarian, the starter and main were a real let down (so much so that I was unable to eat the vegetarian main even though I was pretty peckish by the time it finally surfaced).

The cold and hot meze had little to no merit (Veg. Cold Meze: A few dips and a small piece of watermelon mushed up on a plate including Tarama which the last time I heard was not vegetarian though the waiting staff were too harried to pay it much attention, as nice as they were. Hot Meze: One salty, cheese overly fried parcel. Both accompanied by luke warm pitta bread).

The non-veg equivalent for the hot meze including the same salty cheese parcel and a few cubes of liver which my wife didn't appear greatly enamoured with.

Vegetarian Main: Two small scoops of plain rice, a hunk of ice berg lettuce on the side, two grilled onion slices, three thin slices of grilled aubergine and a couple of grilled chillis.

I realise that we did visit around the festive period but if a restaurant is unable to cope then they should only allow as many diners as they are able to serve properly.

Though as I have mentioned, the waiters were trying to be as pleasant as possible, on the occassions that we did see them followed shortly thereafter by an appearance of the Yetti and a flock of dodos.

If you're dining in London then I would recommend any other Turkish restaurant (including your local kebab shop).

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