I'm told that this place (14 Scotts Road #02-58, 6836-3352) has been around for ages, and yet it was only tonight that I made my way over here for a quick bite. I was expecting some worn out little place with only a few things on the menu. But to my surprise, there was a brightly lit counter on one side, complete with rotating spits and a rather wide selection of items listed on a lit menu high up on the wall (like they have at fast food joints). After placing your order, head down to the other side of the passageway and sit at the wooden tables where they bring you the food. Hey this looked rather promising!
And yes, it generally worked for me. I grabbed an ananda kebab, whose minced meat was a tad dry and salty but still enough on the safe side of excessive to get me to gobble up the tasty stuff in seconds. The portions were a bit small, so I followed up with an iskender kebab to round it out. It was piping hot and similiarly good enough for me to enjoy.I'm no pro on Turkish food, but I liked this place enough that I'd come back. They had a couple of other items on the menu that looked interesting, including some big meat-flatbread thing that I do want to come back for. Doner kebabs were on the menu too. Are they open late by chance? I think Dharma's has shut down, so we could sure use a new late night kebab shop around here.
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do try the ice cream they sell there too. while i dont exactly call it great by any stretch, they do put up quite a performance of presenting it to you. good for fun :)
I was going to mention the ice cream too. The performance's worth it and if you like sticky ice cream, it's pretty good for $1 (or is it $2).
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I have tried alot of Turkish establishments in Singapore and I must say Anatolia has the most affordable and good Turkish food around. Quite similar to what I have tired in Turkey!
Sorry to say I could not disagree more with bma and the previous comments. This place is a real letdown. The food we got was mediocre at best, and servings were way to small for the price. The doner was wrapped in cold flobby bread, looked more like a popiah..yuck. And the service was atrocious, had to remind them three times to bring our food after a long wait.
Absolutely no comparison to the phantastic doner kebab places in Europe, which are much cheaper btw.
You must be joking. This place sucks beyond description. Food, service, prices are so much worse than any doner kebab in Europe I tried.
The kebabs you see in Berlin, Paris, London or wherever are the Germanised or Europeanised version that's already been modified to cater to European tastebuds. Those are nice in their own right, but hit the streets of Istanbul and the only places where you can find kebabs that taste like that are in the tourist spots.
I've got my complaints about Anatolia as well, but this is about as close to Turkish food - I'm referring the stuff you get off the streets of Istanbul - as you can get in Singapore.
Btw the ice cream is no odinary ice cream, its made from goats milk not cows milk. just FYI.
The turkish food in East Coast Park (forget the name) tastes much better. It was a total dissapointment eating @ Anatolia, as we heard a lot of nice things about the places before. Even my cousin who studied in Australia mentioned that she can find better turkish food over there. I ate in various Turkish restaurant in Germany, and all of them taste better. Better spend your money on packed hummus sold in Cold Storage.
We tried the chicken and the vegetable lahmacun (from the arabic: lahm for meat, ajeen for dough) and loved it. The bread base was light and very crispy and the topping was very nice with salad and lemon juice squirted on top.
The kebab pancake was also very nice, nicely marinated meat without excess salt. A friend also had grilled chicken shish kebabs and said the flavour was nice.
I liked this place because it isn't overly pretentious, you can sit down and relax without thinking of service charges and can get a bit of entertainment at the ice cream stall.
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