Café Orchid

I  had a bad experience. Bad waiter and probably bad ownership. Broken toilet as well.

I don't recommend this place at all.

A solid Turkish place that is BYOB.  Bit out of the way for me but found it rolling down Addison and always up for some Turkish food.  The is always pleasent, portions are big, food is rock solid.  I would prefer a bit more pita"ish bread as theirs is relatively think but still tasty.  Excellent kabobs, solid babagnoush, overall a solid place to hit.  It's not going to knock your socks off but it's a good place to go for a mid week affordable dinner.  

I would return.

I had been a fan of this place until tonight. My boyfriend and I have gone here several times for dinner and I've brought clients here for lunch - the food has been excellent, the service was spotty - sometimes really nice, sometimes a little confused and sometimes we were made to feel as if we were intruding. But I always came back, recommended it to friends and family alike, etc...

However, tonight - we were treated like lepers.

It was about 8:30, maybe closer to 9 and the place was busy, I'll give them that, but when I asked if we could have coffee and dessert (we had already dined at the place we had our first date but I was craving Turkish coffee - and this was the place we had another one of our first dates and probably a 5th and a 10th, lol. Like I said, I was a fan) we were told that they are not a "coffee house" and we would not be seated.

So we took our business elsewhere - found delicious Bosnian coffee, which is very similar. The waiter at Restaurant Sarajevo welcomed us graciously, even though they were close to closing - he said it was fine for us to have a coffee and dessert. We spent all of 20 minutes, and tipped him 100% of our bill (which wasn't much, admittedly).

Now, had Cafe Orchid told us they had no open tables I would have been completely understanding. But to have gone out of our way to go there for their dessert and coffee and told that they wouldn't serve us was really irksome.

I will miss the coffee and the food but with Restaurant Sarajevo so close and so utterly accommodating, my business will remain elsewhere.