Sip Sak Express Turkish Restaurant
Turkish restaurant · Midtown East ·
Authentic Turkish plates, kebabs, manti, and rice pilaf
Authentic Turkish plates, kebabs, manti, and rice pilaf
"Sip Sak opens at noon every day for lunch, and it’s great if you need a calm place to eat really good Turkish food with some clients or coworkers to celebrate the end of the fiscal year. We really like the roasted lamb over rice and the sizzling shrimp with garlic and olive oil, as well as the table bread - which they’ll keep filling it up until you can’t eat anymore." - hannah albertine, bryan kim, matt tervooren
"In Midtown East, Sip Sak was opened by Yegen in 2004 as a fast-casual Turkish restaurant and was later transformed by him into a more formal Turkish home-cooking destination; I was told by his family that a funeral service will be held at Sip Sak either today or tomorrow, though details have yet to be finalized, and he was running the restaurant at the time of his death." - Tanay Warerkar
"I note that Yegen also owns Sip Sak in Manhattan, and its menus overlap significantly with Lokanta’s." - Hannah Goldfield
"I brought two wheelchair-using, vegetarian grandmothers to this airy Turkish restaurant near Midtown East and found the service kind, welcoming, and extremely helpful; the food was maybe even better, with highlights being a mezze platter (especially flaky borek stuffed with feta and dill), walnut-and-red-pepper muhammara, fava bean stew with rice, and ali nazik—ground beef with peppers, tomatoes, and garlic over smoked eggplant — and a tip to ask about vegetarian options not all listed on the menu." - Eater Staff
"This lively, spacious Turkish restaurant is a good 15-minute walk from the station, but dishes come out of the kitchen so quickly that you can easily make up the extra time. Plus, the food is worth the walk - especially the manti dumplings, which come in a tangy, creamy sauce, and the spicy lamb kebab with lavash. Service is attentive, the atmosphere is relaxed, and the bread in particular is so good you’ll probably want extra." - Hannah Albertine, Bryan Kim, Hillary Reinsberg, Matt Tervooren