Cafe Turko

This place is great, but was to come back to do more shareable. Staff very nice and helpful. Food ready super fast. Love all the flavor and filled me up. Turkish coffee with pistachio is good (didn't expect pieces of pistachio in at first). Dessert was super light with fun mixture of textures. Not super busy during late lunch

This place serves authentic Turkish cuisine packed with flavors hard to resist. We had the Muhammara which was lip-smacking, the pita served with it felt old though. We had the Green Green Manti and Ali Nazik with fire. The former was flavorful with small spinach dumplings in chickpeas. The portion size was small for the price though. The latter tasted great as well with extra couple of dollars for the fire (?). They were out of specialty Turkish coffee so we had the cardamom Turkish coffee with date dolmas. The coffee was good but the dolmas were alright. I’ll definitely be visiting again to try some other options on their menu.

The service was excellent. The food i tried was very good, finger burek and the lamb/beef kabob. The reasons i did not give 5 stars - i find it very pricy and the kataif desert was very hard. I have tried Turkish cuisine in many places and i have a good understanding what the texture should be. I could barely slice it with a knife. The kabob was a single piece of meat with cup of rice and generic salad - $27. The finger burek was $12. Again, they were delicious but i feel like they should cost half of this price

Came across several Turkish places in Seattle. One, which is not to be named, turned out to be a scam, a place Turkish people call “Mezze”. Avoid it like a plague. This one, on the other hand, is absolutely legit. The service was amazing. Zalina was extremely helpful and brought our food very quickly. Not only is the food incredibly tasty, but it is very authentic and not some Turkish wannabe. The cooks are Turkish, servers are Turkish, Ayran is home made (and delicious), pides have real Turkish cheese… I could go on and on. I’m saving this place in my “Favorites”, and I suggest you do the same. Will be coming back, many times over. PS, they have a Masjid where you can pray as well. Obviously, all meats are halal.

The food was rollercoaster as we didn't like the hummus platter at all, but pita breads were hot and soft. But thier chicken sharwma plate was really good. It's the most softest chicken and we'll marinated chicken I have ever had. Then to the desserts, the Halwa was worstc and they didn't not have more than half of things listed. Hence overall experience was down then up and then down again.