Tas Restaurant

Excellent Turkish restaurant!
Based on some decent web reviews we visited TAS this evening before going to the OLD Vic THEATRE
We had a lovely meal, with fresh tasty food in generous serves and decebr Turkish red wine by the glass to alsi enjoy
Could NOT fault the place - highly recommended

We stopped in for dinner and a couple of drinks. I was impressed with how they are keeping every other table open during covid allowing for social distancing. We were able to get a table outside, which was even better. The service was nice and friendly and the meals good. It was a bit pricey for what you get, but in that location it is to be expected. Each plate was over 16. My Turkish friends wasn't that impressed with the place, so I'm guessing not all that authentic. However us non-Turkish at the the table were fine with the meals.

My partner and I are both vegetarians, so I generally love Turkish food, alongside other eastern Mediterranean cuisines, for offering tasty, good value dishes, with lots of possibilities, from the traditional starter-main-dessert approach, to meze, which are the original sampling venues. My partner and I opted for vegetarian meze.

On the plus side,the experience delivered good food, a decently priced white wine and reasonably swift service. On the down side, I found it a bit noisy (others describe it as 'buzzing', so it depends what you are after). The tables are also quite close together, so don't come here for a date, unless you wish to entertain your neighbours with your amorous sweet nothings.

The worst bit was the service: the surliest of waiters gave us the meze with a meat option instead of the veggie one. We complained and fortunately the item was replaced and we got a different waiter. The rest of the meal went swimmingly - leave room for baklava as dessert - except a slightly overly-long wait for the bill.

Better service would have delivered four stars, but I'd be willing to eat here again.

Update: 5/10/14 - Another meal, this time trying the "Renk" meze menu (the vegetarian option). A meal for three with some baklava shared for dessert, and soft drinks came to £20 each. Much better service this time, so I've upped it to 4 stars.

Turkish food is very close to my heart due to its amazing similarity to Greek food, especially the cuisine of northern Greece. That is why when I went to Tas I immediately recognised half the dishes as being shared by both countries and it did make me slightly nostalgic of having home made food cooked by my grandma.

While my friends decided to go for the most widely known dishes of kefte and a stew I decided to try the hunkar begendi, a dish with mashed aubergine, vegetables, cheese and pieces of lamb. I have to say the flavour and the quality of the dish were amazing, very hearty and perfect for those rainy days when you want something warming and homely. Absolutely loved it!

As this is a chain all over London I would totally recommend checking it out and trying some of the stews and proper cooked food!

We were looking for something interesting to eat and stopped here. The food here was really, really good. Had the chicken and lamb kabobs with a few apps. Everything was amazing. The prices here were very reasonable as well. I would recommend eating here if you're in the mood for Turkish food.

17.95 GBP gets you a great selection at this wonderful place. In this expensive town that is quite a deal.

Walked by several times as it's in the 'hood, but finally stopped in Saturday night, and they could seat the 3 of us almost instantly. Lots of people, lots of kids, lots of smiling faces. All good signs.

We ordered the meze meals @ 17.95 and wow! what great tastes. Everything had that lovely spicing vs yogurty creaminess, everything was very very good. The bread was fresh, warm, toasty and the perfect device for dipping in.

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On a quick visit in my old hood, decided to go for Turkish food, I had to another Tas, but not the one in The Cut. Made a last minute reservation, told them our preference, but was not accommodated.

The restaurant's seating is very crowded, there is no privacy and very cramped in between table.

The food is good, and the service is efficient. We ordered the run of the mills of Humus, a bit more olive old would have been great, the bread was good. My dinner companion had a Mixed Grill -- Karisik Izgara : A mix of grilled chicken, lamb & kofte, but the favor was lost in the pool of tomato sauce. I had a Asthma Yaprakli Sardalya-Sardines wrapped in vine leaves and ezme salata.

I thought the mixed grill is very good, the seasoning and taste are authentic, (too bad for the sauce) I like my sardines, it was cooked nicely and still juicy.

That is why it only gets a 3 stars from me.

Excellent choice of menu for vegetarians.Two Course meals corals about 10 pounds and on top of it they give breads.

I went to this Turkish restaurant for the first time a year ago and had a great meal so was looking forward to going again recently. I wasn't disappointed, and the special promotions were still on this time too. For a two course meal from the set menu it is £8.95 which is less than the price of a main course in most central London restaurants.

To start I ordered Hummus and it came with warm bread which tasted really fresh. For main course I ordered a chicken shish which came with some fried onions and couscous. Although it looked a bit dry, once I started eating the flavours were so great that it really didn't need a sauce. The couple at the table next to us ordered the mezze which has many small dishes to share, like tapas, all of which looked delicious.

The service is really good here, the waiters are rushing around and shouting in Greek to one another but are always polite and deliver extra drinks or bread very quickly after you order. It can get very busy during the week with the office crowd at around 6pm so try it at the weekends to avoid the queues.

It was our first time in London and after having a lot of pub food we were looking for something different. Our hotel recommended Tas, it was about a 15 minute walk from the Park Plaza County Hall Hotel. We sat outdoors and tried the mixed grill, lamb and chicken kebabs and the moussaka. I had never had moussaka before and thought it was very flavorful. The rest of our group loved the kebabs, but thought the couscous could use a little more salt or zing to it. Overall all the food was very good and something different than what we had been having. We were very pleased overall.