Tavacı Recep Usta Alsancak - İzmir

Listed in the Michelin guide and one of the most famous restaurants in the city, you can find tasty grilled meats here and lots of delicious sides. Ambience is excellent too.

This restaurant is worth a detour to Izmir. The food here is fantastic and an experience on every bite. This is the chance to eat at a Michelin rated restaurant at an "affordable price" in comparison to US/Europe prices. This is a busy restaurant, so expect this to work a bit like a factory... Rush rush rush.

FABULOUS!! Highly recommended. We ordered vali kebab and got a huge tray with everything including chicken, kebab, 6kebab, eggplant kebab,… meat and chicken melted in my mouth, so delicious and unlike many restaurants in Izmir not oily. Their salad is so different and tasty, and most importantly clean with fresh vegetables. The restaurant itself, the decoration, the building itself everything is authentic and beautiful. It is a huge restaurant with different sections, suitable for crowds to dine in together. The walls are all full of pictures which add up to its homely vibe. The staff is amazing and service is surprisingly fast. After our food we were served baklava and helva and ice-cream with tea for free! their baklava is superb, with taste of butter and pistachio! We also ordered their special coffee called mervani which is great! January 2025 and we ordered about 2500 tl for two but worth every penny! btw, try their icli kofte as well!

High quality food with an authentic taste. A must when visiting Izmir. Prices are very acceptable compared to the concept and level of the restaurant

This was an amazing experience. The food was delicious, and we were barely seated before the food started to arrive. The only downside was that the only person that spoke English was the hostess, who was absolutely wonderful, but we waited quite some time for our credit card to be processed, and it was only the hostess that was able to expedite that. Michelin Star well deserved!

Echo the other reviews - Food is the best Turkish I have ever tasted. The complementary starter & desserts are super tasty. Lamb is cooked to perfectionism and the bread is very tasty too. The interior design is impressive and the waiters are friendly, although not very fluent in English communication. The price range is there but worth it. I would highly recommend for a visit if you are a tourist in Izmir.

Very popular, nice place. Food is overrated. Not special. So you pay for atmosphere. The meat on my plate was chewy, nothing special. Ordered some other dishes for sharing no special taste. Just regular from sensory experience.

The food was nice, we enjoyed it, although prices as quite steep for the area. The location is very cosy and adorable, although the further on the restaurant you’re seated, the warmer it gets. It was also swarming with mosquitos. The waiter asked us a few odd personal questions, but he also said it was his first day. There was complementary desert and starters, which were both tasty. The bread provided was also delicious.

Good food overall, lots of complimentary items brought to the table without us knowing which we appreciated but I could see this being a problem for people with food allergies. The soup was tasty and the spicy Adana kebab was really tasty, cooked on coal.

Food was great, service was exceptional. We loved it, and it is our go to place each time we are in Izmir

If you're visiting Izmir you must try this place. The food is excellent, the staff is friendly, and you get free mezzes and desert that are substantial!!!

Good meat dishes. Mildly pricey but worth it if you want the best. I enjoyed the şaşlik. The dessert was nice as well. I would recommend going here and then enjoying a seaside walk.

This was our last meal in Turkey and I have to say it was our best Turkish meal on our 10 day trip. Everything we ordered was good and the services was top notch. The food came out a little too quickly, felt the need to eat really fast. Other then that the restaurant is well design with a lovely ambiance. Highly recommend anyone visiting Izmir to check it out. The meal was also very affordable.

One of the best restaurants in İzmir. Top-notch location, ambiance, food, and service. All main courses come with a procession of sides: appetizers like their içli köfte (little wrapped meatballs), warm poofy bread, better salad than anywhere else in town, ice-cream-and-pie dessert, and of course çay (tea) or coffee (often including the option of a regional coffee). The two-person lamb-and-rice dinner is particularly well-executed. The seaside location can't be beat in İzmir. After-dinner strolls down the waterfront Kordon are lovely. The restaurant is beautiful inside, too: hanging lanterns, soft light (so rare in this town), with the outside a garden and the inside a (rare-for-İzmir) old house. No intrusive music.

Right on Alsancak's waterfront. Dinner came with complementary spinach salad, poofy bread, stuffed eggplant, and at the end of our meal, complimentary Turkish desserts. The main course was very good - the lamb had been recommended to us by a friend. It was perfectly tender and flavorful. We ate outdoors where the atmosphere was warm and inviting, strung with lanterns. A glass of wine was 15 tl, most entrees were about 30 - 80 TL. Reservations recommended. Worth the visit, even for yabancilar (foreigners) like us.