Turkish Traditional Music - Ensemble Tahir Aydogdu

Advantages: Great food, quick, friendly service, inexpensive
Disadvantages: Can be crowded and noisy on weekend nights

...lightly salted so an ideal thirst quencher. I think a 300cl glass costs £1. Coke, Fanta, water etc. The soft drink cans / water are all 50p. Tea They'll ask you if you wanted tea at the end of the meal. Traditional Turkish black tea is served hot, already brewed and sweetened (a lot!) in a tiny glass known across the Middle East / North Africa. The taste is very unlike English tea, it looks golden, transparent but it's still strong so if you drink it at 11PM you might be in for a sleepness night. CLEANLINESS / TOILETS The cleanliness is excellent, staff wipe tables straight away after use, mainly because there are new people taking the place immediately. You can see the chefs preparing food from the chilled counter on the charcoal grill so this adds to the authenticity and that they aren't trying to hide anything... Read review

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Advantages: Vaguely entertaining
Disadvantages: Hard to get into

...Introduction A few months ago, I read The Winter Queen, the first of Boris Akunin's books in the Erast Fandorin series after having read a glowing article on his work in one of the weekend newspapers. I enjoyed the book, although I wasn't thrilled. Anyway, I decided to give Akunin another go with this third book in the series. In the Winter Queen, Erast Fandorin was a detective, so I was quite surprised in this book to find him as a volunteer in the Russo-Turkish war, although he does still have a role of mystery solver. The author Boris Akunin is the pseudonym for Grigory Chkhartishvili. Thank goodness he changed his name, I don't think I'd be able to remember his real name very easily. He lives in Moscow. His books have sold millions of copies in Russia. He has been frequently compared to authors such as Tolstoy and Sir Arthur... Read review

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Advantages: chocolate
Disadvantages: not big enough

...I have a passion for chocolate but I also love milk chocolate with Turkish delight. I have tried various brands but my favourite is Fry?s. Whilst shopping at Asda I was ?delighted? to find that they had Fry?s Turkish Delight on special offer. A pack of three usually cost 99p but two packs today cost me £1.50. So there I was with my boots blacked stuffing two packs in my trolley. They won?t last long though because my husband likes them too. Fry?s Turkish Delight claim to be ?92% fat free and full of eastern promise?. The packaging is made of a deep pink plastic with ?Turkish? in large bold white writing and ?Delight? in much smaller gold lettering. Inside are 3 individually wrapped bars of ?Turkish Delight?, which are very similar to the outer wrapping except they are in a very shiny shade of pink. For the purpose of Ciao... Read review

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