Recently I visited a friend for luncheon inwards my onetime cervix of the woods, Cheadle. Anyone due south of Watford may say, where the hell is that? So for the create goodness of clarity, it's a leafy expanse but exterior Manchester.
While the high street boasts veg shops, a Boots too my honey Quality Save, similar many villages, it doesn't accept eateries inwards abundance. There's a pizza express, too Tuquoise, a Turkish eating seat that's my go-to when inwards the area, too the dependent area of this review.
Lucky for ladies who lunch, or those who travel nearby, Tuquoise offers luncheon specials of 2 dishes for £7. The generous bill of fare offers staples such equally humus too soujuk (Turkish sausage), too halal eaters volition hold out pleased to know that in that location are chicken too substance options available (I was informed that alone the steak wasn't halal).
I unremarkably opt for the mixed mezze, which is a flavoursome plate of cheese filled pastries, vine leaves, falafel too warm pitta, though sadly this wasn't on offer.
So here's what nosotros had:
The bruschetta was a tasty, filling portion, though the staff of life got a trivial soggy underneath all that tomato. I much prefer the bruschetta at Pizza Express or London's La Cucina.
The kofte (meatballs) would accept benefitted from a side dish of chilli or garlic sauce, equally the dish overall was slightly dry. I know this is typical of Turkish cuisine, but I intend I've been spoilt past times restaurants inwards London that offering to a greater extent than or less kind of sauce alongside their substance dishes.
I've previously had the vegetable moussaka, which is a rich love apple tree dish, too I'd belike opt for this, too to a greater extent than or less mezzes if I see again.
In damage of how Turquoise squares upward against other Turkish restaurants I've tried, I'd nation it was ameliorate than Tas, but didn't quite pack the flavor of Efes. However, if I'm inwards Cheadle again, it would hold out my become to place.
Turquoise inwards a nutshell...
Cost - luncheon specials offering 2 courses for £7. Dinner offers 2 courses for nether £10.
Halal- nigh dishes are halal apart from the steak.
Great if... You're inwards the expanse too fancy something different.
Not then corking if... You prefer your substance strongly flavoured or spicy. The nature of Turkish is that it's low-cal on the palette.