Ayse Meze Lounge

Great place to say the least. Overall satisfied. Uneven quality. Some plates like the scallops or the Brussels Sprouts were exceptional while other choices were just ok. The biggest disappointment was for the musaka... tasted like a bad hospital cafeteria for $17! Service just ok with some confusion. 4 stars mainly for the exceptional location.

We used to come to this restaurant all the way from Bethesda because everything about it was fantastic. We loved sunflowers on the tables, we loved intricately crafted food, we loved our children being able to experience authentic Mediterranean juicing by using hand-held juicer from Turkey oh, and we loved the staff that was there for many years and really knew the menu well. We came to celebrate a big day in our family, one of the family members just received a green card. Everything about our dinner was horrible. The food was overly salted and I couldn't eat neither the sandwich nor the main dish. I literally couldn't eat anything and it lacked the refinement that I was used to at this location. It tasted more like salty fast food. The service was atrocious. Both people that we spoke with were brand new and couldn't answer simple questions of what was recommended from the menu. I repeatedly asked to have sunflowers bouquet place that our table and three people said that they would be right back. The bouquet never came. The manager came to figure out the request about juicing and apparently that was scratched off the menu altogether. By the way, the manager looks like a bouncer and behaved that way too. As with the previous bad review, the service was the same for us. It was not at all busy there was just another family sitting outside and one more family sitting inside, yet we had to wait and wait. I did mention that the manager was unprofessional. None of her demeanor was appropriate Other than the location, there is nothing left to come back to at this restaurant. Quite disappointed