Anatolia Restaurant - Turkish Cuisine

Fantastic food one the best Turkish restaurants in Toronto, been going there for years never had a bad meal

This is not fast food. This is a restaurant. This place should be a lot more expensive. This restaurant is clean. The staff are kind and classy. The music, the table cloth, the decor, the wallpaper, and pretty much everything is just right. The food is cooked from fresh. The food is delicious.

This place never fails to delight. The food, the atmosphere, the staff all of it just clicks. We've been there with friends both finicky and food obsessed, and no one's ever had a complaint. It's cozy, so make a reservation on a Friday or Saturday night. And save room for the kenafe for dessert. You'll be glad you did.

Anatolia is an institution for Turkish food in the GTA. It has been around for a few decades, and has been featured in various local media including The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, BlogTO, Toronto Life, and more. It's not hard to see why. The service is top notch (our server paid attention to every detail, service was fast overall, and very nice and friendly), the ambience is lovely and homey (with traditional Turkish wall decorations and music in the background), and the food is one of the best out there when it comes to Turkish cuisine. Most people might think of meat kebabs when they think of Turkish food, but this place shows that their vegetarian dishes deserve more praise and recognition! What I love most about Anatolia is its variety of vegetarian dishes options, and also the amount and variety of vegetables in each dish. In one meal, I think I ate the full rainbow colour spectrum (counting the number of different types of vegetables in all the dishes combined). Review of the dishes: 1) Shepherd's Salad (chopped fresh tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, parsley, and diced onions tossed in olive oil and vinegar house dressing) Simple yet nice and refreshing. 2) Red Cabbage Beets Salad (red cabbage, beets, carrots, arugula, walnuts, green apple slices) The naturally slightly bitter arugula pairs nicely with the sweet beets and slightly sour Granny Smith green apple slices. The walnuts and apple add a nice crunch. 3) Zeytinyagli Enginar (artichoke hearts sautéed with onions, dill, peas, carrots, and potatoes) If you've ever tried to prepare and cook artichokes yourself at home, you'd know how long it takes to prepare them and you'd appreciate the artichokes cooked well in restaurants. This dish is hands down my favourite out of all the vegetarian dishes at Anatolia. It look and sounds simple, but tastes really delicious. 4) Imam Bayildi Tabagi (oven baked velvety eggplants stuffed with sautéed onions, tomatoes, red and green peppers, garlic, and freshly chopped parsley), served with bulgur This is my 2nd favourite vegetarian dish from the menu. The eggplants are so soft and velvety, and the mixture of other vegetables just make every spoonful a satisfying one. The bulgur is lightly seasoned, and makes the perfect accompaniment to the baked stuffed eggplants. 5) Vegetarian Manti (Turkish handmade mini dumplings filled with onions, spinach, and squash, topped with garlic yogurt, mint, paprika, and sumac) Sometimes it's hard to find manti that do not contain meat, so this vegetarian manti dish is a great find. I like that it contains additional pieces of squash outside of the manti, and the thick yogurt sauce is very rich and filling. The mixture of the garlic yogurt and various herbs covering the manti makes a great party on your tastebuds with every spoonful. 6) Grilled Calamari (tender marinated calamari grilled on an open flame and served with garlicky roasted red peppers) Tender and a bit chewy. The roasted red peppers are a bit overcooked (very soft and limpy), but it's an okay dish overall. 7) Karides (Shrimps) Sautée (shrimps sautéed in garlic, butter, green pepper, tomatoes, onions, herbs, and homemade vegetable broth, then baked with mozzarella cheese), served with rice I wasn't too fond of this dish, but it might just be because my preference for non cheesy seafood dishes. 8) Hummus They give a complimentary basket of bread (which comes out nice and warm, and smells really good from the light butter topping) and hummus (nicely sprinkled with paprika) at the beginning of the meal. You can tell that the hummus is 100% homemade (more coarse and flavourful compared to the well blended store bought hummus. They sprinkle paprika on the hummus, and the hummus itself contains some Middle Eastern spices (perhaps including sumac), making it aromatic and more tasty than the typical regular hummus. If they sold their hummus by the jar, I'd buy it. Out of all the dishes that I tried at Anatolia, I love the vegetarian ones the best. It's probably one

Went to Anatolia yesterday for dinner and had a great experience with the ambience, their service and delicious food. They were really accommodating with us showing up half an hour before they close. Could not recommend more!