Eating at a Turkish Restaurant

This is Turkish Restaurant Karagöz that is in business since 1987, now in second generation. It is a Theater Restaurant. In the same building is a small stage theater called Half 9 Theater. But that is not the only theater near by. Just across the street is the big city theater and opera house. The restaurant is packed 2 hours before the shows are starting.
We did not visit one of the theaters later, we just came here to eat. It is necssary to make a reservation.
Checking a menu in the internet is easy now and so we all new what we wanted to try.

We were a party of three women and shared a warm starter platter and a platter of mixed olives.
The warm starter had mixed sigarek börek with salad. 2 pieces were filled with spinach, 2 with feta and the others with a mild lamb mince and onions. The plate was huge and it took all our strength to finish it. We were not able to finish the olives.
Offering that warm dish as a starter is the best way to get people filled up before the main course even arrives. 

We had 3 different main courses, everybody could try the others. I love lamb meat and decided on Köfte, lamb meatballs served on thin flatbread.
Köfte meatballs usually are golfball to tennisball size. I was very surprised to get very small chunks of meat. No balls in sight. They were about an inch or less and looked ripped off a chunk of minced meat. The seasoning was good but they were cooked to their death. Dry and hard to chew. Beneath it was the thin flatbread cut into 1 inch quarters. That filled the middle of an oval plate. Left and right of it was much plain Turkish yogurt that had a little mild red sauce on top. The dish was served with a small side salad. I did not finish the dish, chewing all the hard meat was not to my liking.

My friend had a huge piece of yuffka pastry covered sheep feta with a big side of salad and the always present plain yogurt. The huge amount of cheese made it very heavy and we 2 others tried to help and ate sone of it and some of the salad.

The 3rd plate was called minced lamb meat grilled on a skewer and wrapped in thin flatbread. They took it off the skewer in the kitchen and cut it into wedges and arranged them around a plate with the yogurt and pieces of salad.
The seasoning of the meat was not so good and it was very dry in the middle.

All in all we had a nice evening. The food was a 2.7 out of 5. After we paid either hot apple tea or Raki was served.

The last time I was eating at a Turkish restaurant was a few years ago in Hannover in the red light district. The food and service at the Urfa Restaurant was a 5 out of 5.