efendy restaurant - meze bar

great spot! nice outdoor setting! food is decent, well breakfast anyway! unlimited turkish coffee and tea.goodspot for groups and couples.

friendly staff.lots of option for turkish liquor drinks. loves their turkish internal design in the restaurant, such agoodplace for friends gathering.

beautiful location and layout. i fell in love when i first walked in. didn’t have a booking but the staff where able to find us a table, requested for outside seating since it was such beautiful weather. we got to enjoy the sun and food at the same time... howgoodis that? and you get unlimited refill on apple tea!!!

ordered the breakfast grazing board, and it felt like i took a trip back to my childhood. it had all of the little things i forgot about which made me and my tummy very happy. only downfall was.. it wasn’t enough... i felt i could eat what came comfortably by myself and feel full. and then when the cost comes into place, i was then a bit more disheartened. per person for what was given, didn’t seem fair on the ratio side of things.

i also did return with a group of 8 to try the dinner menu, again the dishes where there but they wherent filling enough for the cost. bit confusing as to which dish is bigger than the other, especially if your big eaters and you want to be satisfied, it’s a tiny bit hard. unless you get a few dishes together like they where pushing us to do (defiantly doesn’t add up cheap this way too mind you) but we didn’t do it anyways.

would i return? possibly... if i’m on a semi full stomach and want to just enjoy the atmosphere

another consistent meal at efendy, reallygoodplace to go and recommend for family or friends, relaxed vibe. plenty of food given, not cheap but then rents in sydney hey...

reallygoodguys! came here for my 20th birthday dinner a few weeks ago. as turkish cuisine isn't all that common in australia, this restaurant was superb.

staff were friendly and helpful with the menu. the restaurant was decorated so well and i loved the layout of the restaurant itself.

food was so delicious and presented well. i can remember the lamb kofte being one of the best dishes. the 'turkish mess' i had for dessert was amazing as well. i would recommend this place to anyone, especially those who appreciate middle eastern cuisine.

delicious, healthy, great value turkish food withgoodwine in a friendly, comfortable ambience. we read a couple of recent less complimentary reviews & we a little wary but our experience was entirely positive

i had been wanting to try efendy for some time and finally made it for dinner on a saturday night with friends. it was a balmy end of summer night and we were lucky enough to get one of the tables outside. the staff were very attentive and helpful with our orders. with two quasi vegetarians , we needed plenty of green stuff in the order, but it was easily done without sacrificing taste. to start we had the verygoodhumus with pomegranates. baba ganuj, beer battered black mussels and the bomba, a really tasty dish of smoked eggplant, feta, and haloumi. for mains we had sardines, duck borek (delis)h , salads and gorgeous melting off the bone  slow cooked lamb. all the food was great and i am looking forward to going back and trying some more of their verygoodmenu.

posted on 10:20 amby amy zhong with no comments brace yourselves, the taste of sydney posts are coming! not that it's a bad thing because so many outstanding dishes were beckoning our stomachs (and crown card) towards them, giving us the chance to sample some of sydney's finest restaurants offering. taste-y! this is my first time at taste of sydney, and like previous years it is held at the brazilian fields at centennial park. sure you can drive there but given the traffic, it is highly recommended that you catch public transport or get dropped off right out front. the hungry crowds we arrive early for the saturday evening session and it is already in full swing when we arrive. what we learnt (the hard way)? gotta arrive early and beat the queues! another thing to keep in mind? have a plan of attack, the menu is available online so take a quick squiz and pick out the dishes you want so you don't blow the budget! oh and also there are heaps of brands doing tastings and chefs doing demos, so check out a few of those and you may score some tasty treats! porteno's icon dish is the bbq'd porchetta with chilli, silverbeet & truffle pecorino  so with our plan of attack and a map in our hands, we dove straight into the food, because heck we were starving! a long queue is not exactly a bad thing, not when it is a porteno’s to get their famed porchetta. i kid you not when i said their queue stretched across the field. although the wait to order was long, the pick up of the food was really efficient, with a plate off that porchetta in our hands in under 5 minutes! so howgoodis the porchetta? friggen amazing! the meat was tender and flavoursome and the crackling was crunchy and all things amazing, i however didn’t like the silverbeet as i’m not a fan of overcooked greens . the truffle pecorino however made everything allgoodif not better! cured huon salmon with smoked oyster creme fraiche on a hash brown also from porteno is the cured huon salmon with smoked oyster creme fr

aggressive tip seeking. we went for a lunch as we had been there before and enjoyed the food. the food was still very nice, and mostly the service wasgood- except for one particular waiter (he) could learn to smile. the bad taste i was left with was when paying on eftpos, the same grumpy waited handed me the machine telling me to leave a tip. i was so stunned by this that i did leave a tip, even though i felt the food already pricey and this particular guy was kind of rude - then for an hour after i felt really stupid for having done so. i won't be going back as although the food was tasty it was very pricey ($30 kebab in a bowl) and the thing with the hard sell tip is crap.

the van breakfast at efendy is served banquet style where everything is brought out onto the table. a huge wooden plank came out first and was filled with so many items. one bowl is filled with some hot items such as cigar borek and pachanga borek. the cigar borek is shaped like a spring roll and filled with fetta. the pachanga borek was new to me and is kind of like a fat sausage roll and filled with mince and cheese.  both were wrapped in flakey crispy pastry. then there’s goats fetta, curly haloumi, olives, cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices, smoked prosciutto and cous cous salad. the fresh fruit is a nice touch andgoodway to end the breakfast. there are slices of helva (a dense sweet)

...we decided it was about time to enrol in turkish cuisine 101...we felt as though as a whole, the flow of the menu was that it started quite strong, hiccoughed through the middle and went downhill after they placed the dessert plate in front of us. maybe next time for breakfast, efendy (voted best breakfast by smhgoodfood 2014)

questionable portions. the pros: food wasgoodand staff were friendly.

the cons: whether you are a group of 2 or 4, the same amount of food (fixed breakfast/ brunch menu) is delivered to your table. at $30 a head on what is essentially lots of honey and jam and supermarket grapes and watermelon, we expected a lot more. 'scrambled eggs' for the whole table was a small bowl.
children are required to order the set as well, so you'd better hope that they want to eat goat cheese, perfumed honey and spicy sausage to make it worth your while.

sydney, be ready to eat with your eyes in a very tasty way!  voted sydney's best breakfast by smhgoodfood in 2014; efendy delivers to it's reputation.  for $29 per person, be prepared to taste amazing breakfast treats the turkish way.  i loved it! make sure you book. start with the hot food which included sausages and a mix of menemen eggs with some bread.  the sausages and eggs had a nice dash of spice. accompany this with the warm bread and enjoy the spreads.  wow. it was amazing start off to this feast of a meal. baked pide and breads pogaca, spinach-feta tepsi borek, simit apple tea i loved this apple tea which seem to compliment everything in front of me.  i loved the curly haloumi below which was fun and tasty to eat.  the vegetables were lightly coated in a yoghurt like dressing.  i also devoured the cheese which was beautiful with the freshly baked bread.  the spreads were also great, giving you variety and made your taste buds dance. i really liked the peanut-butter like spr

dont take us for a ride efendy....... the food is good, but boy do they overprice the simplest of dishes and ingredients! the mezze choices are all cold and are predominantly dips.........the whole concept of a dip is as an accompaniment to bread.............but no bread is forthcoming...............instead you have to order the bread separately........which for us meant sitting for several minutes staring at plates of dips waiting to summon a waitress to ask for bread .... ...errr doh! of course we need bread we've just received a selection of dips..............but worse..........your then asked 'how many breads'....... you order a serving of bread.......and much to my boyfriends disgust........a paltry lonely single serving mini roll fit for a child appears .........are we expected to eat dips with a spoon? we started to do the math.......having realised the dips are $9 each and each mini roll is $2.50..your left wondering what exactly am i paying for? these items are simple no fuss cheap ingredients that we should not be spruced for! the mains were delicious but again were very small and you still had to ask the question.....what am i paying for? i have dined in many turkish restaurants and have similar fare for a fraction of the price.........the décor is non-descript.........the service standard..........there is some guff on the menu about it being contemporary but frankly the dishes are allgoodquality standard turkish ....which i am happy to pay for.....but don't necessarily want to take a second mortgage out for or more to the point do not want to be taken for a ride for! c'mon efendy ...........the food is good.....but don't alienate your customer by trying to fleece us!

efendy.goodspacing between tables. music not intrusive. service polite and prompt. no problem parking. food tasty.cost reasonable.