In tourist restaurants of Istanbul you can often find a trick by which the owners may well profit at the expense of the inattentive tourist.
I recently returned from a short trip to Istanbul. City absolutely fantastic in terms of "what to see" and "what to eat". But the first day of arrival overshadowed the trip to the restaurant.
A little background
Early wake up at 8 am, slept without hearing the alarm clock, the good we have agreed to bring up families, they woke us and it. Breakfast at home did not have time. The benefit to the airport 20 minutes by car, and we have in place. We had breakfast at the airport for 1100 rubles. Breakfast was quite tolerable, although not usual. At 11, we boarded the plane VICTORY airline, which during the flight do not feed, but you get a cheap ticket.
At 15:30 we already boarded the bus from Istanbul airport to get to the hotel an hour later were transferred to the water bus and by 17:00 we were in the heart of old Istanbul. We were only 30 minutes and we are in hotels. But for obvious reasons, we at that time already pretty hungry. So we decided to go to the hotel and on the road to find a place to eat.
Search restaurant
We arrived on Sunday, when the city was the largest number of tourists, it was really very, very many people. Pushing his way through the ranks of tourists and locals, we did not notice we left the main street and got out into the streets, where they were located hotels and a lot of restaurants.
you out of each restaurant tout dinner first in Turkish, then in English, and then on several other languages. Barely hearing the Russian language you already greeting "Welcome to our pozhalvat Restaurants". We are already tired of the road, and agreed on the next invitation.
The restaurant is nothing special, neither eat the easiest restaurant that prepare everything that will please the tourist. Menu translated in 4 languages at once. I ordered fish and chips and my wife soup squid.
What's the catch
When I ordered the food I noticed that prices are higher in general 10-20 percent, but not critical. Soup cost 55 lira and 24 lira my dishes. When our food arrived I was very surprised, because the size is clearly not consistent with price.
Catch is that the menu is going to podterli little toe, and my dish was worth 240 lire, and focus 240 lira per 1 kg of fish, about what the dish is considered a rate per kilogram, it was written only Turkish. Expense brought to 521 lira (this is 6252 rubles.), In which among other things have added another 10% service charge.
Total
Read the menu carefully, pay attention not only to what is translated into your native language, but also what is written in the local. Of course, I blame myself, but in the restaurant tried to create such conditions that I did not pay attention to some points in the menu. To cook my claims were not, as the fish was cooked very tasty. After this incident, we vowed not to go to restaurants that are designed exclusively for tourists, although it is tasty but is sometimes too expensive.
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