Restaurants

I really enjoyed this evenings meal at taz. To be honest I was a surprised cos usually I dislike chains. Yet at taz pide I had some excellent and unusual starters - including a mincemeat, lentils and red onion dish, yum - and two comforting pides. Sausage and egg was best. Nice atmosphere too

My first and last time at Tas! I was really dissappointed.
I ordered what I thought was a moussaka and it was just slop.
I ate the mince which just was like little grains of mincemeat. The pureed potato tasted like cheesy cream that was going off. I don't know what else was on the plate but it was cold and squishy. eurgh

actually this is a fun, happy place to eat. Absolutely agree you are not in Turkey, the food is not as good as it would be there, but for a London restaurant this is pretty good.

Last night, I went there to celebrate a friend's birthday, a mix group of Turkish and English friends and had the misfortune of tasting the worst pides on offer. None of us could finish what we got. It was so bland and tasteless. They could have never got away with it in Turkey and expect to get paid. Checking their list of pide varieties and their claim that these were traditional Anatolian food, we had to laugh, pide with apricot and cheese, pide with aubergine and sardines, pide with artichoke!!! and these are traditional!!!! Their whole pide menu was complete nonsense and I assume they thought these would suit into English people's taste. When a couple of us complained, the manageress was argumentative and claimed that our taste must be different. How can one claim a donkey is not a horse when both have got four legs? I would go to any backstreet pide places in Hackney to get a real taste of what a pide should look and taste like and pay far less. Try Mangal in Dalston instead! Never again