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Efes 2

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175-177 Great Portland Street,
London,
W1W 5PJ

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Reviewer JChinchin
29/06/2009
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.
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Reviewer Anonymous
14/12/2007
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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Reviewer Anonymous
07/09/2005
I came to Efes II because I love their other restaurant. I wasn't disappointed - Efes II is just as good, with a real friendly atmosphere and great food.
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Reviewer james gore
21/06/2004
Having grown up in this restaurant I have to recommend it to anybody...great food, great music and belly dancers to die for, although I could show them a move or two!
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Reviewer David Sussman
24/12/2003
Efes II has the most incredible Turkish food I have ever had in my life!!
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