11/01/09

Best (and First) Turkish Restaurant Ever!

by deedster

This is one of my favorite restaurants. It has great food (large variety of meat and vegetarian meals) and awesome service, I go there about 2 times a week! They recently opened a new section where the mail station used to be and they decorated it beautifully. Definitly recommend going there, and if you can reserve the side room :D

• Pros: soft bread, cozy atmosphere, real brick oven, kind workers
• Cons: limited parking(unless you use the garage across the street)

05/04/09

Not Constantinople

by colt45

Always ask your waiter what is good today. Turkish waiters in my experience have always been really honest with me and this place is no exception. Those guys have always told me which meats haven't roasted long enough and which ones have roasted too long. Go there and sit outside. Smoke a cigarette with some mediteranian people. And don't order an iced tea. They have really good hot tea and a bunch of crazy Turkish soda pops. You go now!

• Pros: Tasty
• Cons: Parking

02/18/09

Excellent kebabs, the real doner, at great prices.

by tud

My wife and I like this place a lot. Ever since we moved to Houston 2 years ago we have been going there on a regular basis - it's our favorite comfort food. We have taken all visitors to the restaurant and everybody liked it. Istanbul Grill is not fancy, I would not call it romantic, but it is clean, comfortable, laid-back, relaxed, excellent for lunch or dinner. As this place is usually busy the service may be just a bit slow at times, but the servers have always been nice and helpful.

All the kebabs on the menu are extremely good: tasty, tender meat, well spiced for taste but not hot, accompanied by rice, a small salad, and good bread. The doner kebab is the real thing, layers of real beef and lamb meat on a large vertical skewer, slowly cooking, not the preprocessed artificial stuff sold in most places. We also really like the red lentil soup and most of the appetizers, especially the eggplant (paste) salad. My wife and I could literally have this food every day. (P.S. The sandwiches are an especially great value.)

Overall I highly recommend Istanbul Grill for the great food, good prices, and pleasant, relaxed atmosphere.

• Pros: Excellent food (especially the kebabs) and good (cheap) prices.
• Cons: None so far.