Anatolia
48 White Bridge Rd.Nashville, TN 37205
Belle Meade/ White Bridge/ West Meade
356-1556
Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sun.-Thurs.; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Fri.-Sat.
Restaurant Details
Brothers Huseyin and Harun Ustunkaya are from the Anatolia region of Turkey, and they're calling upon their upbringing in a resort city and their background in the hospitality industry to create a genuine but upscale ethnic dining experience. While the bulk of dishes will sound familiar to anyone who has eaten in Middle Eastern restaurants—hummus, dolmas, gyros and kabobs—Anatolia separates itself with a commitment to quality, top-notch product and ingredients, a light hand with oil, a superb sense of seasoning and an emphatic freshness. What most distinguishes this restaurant is a small selection of dishes described as Klasik Turk Ev Yemekleri, which Huseyin translates as Turkish home cooking—specialties not even typically found in restaurants in Turkey. One of the best of these is manti, or Turkish ravioli, a rich and hearty creation of homemade pasta pinched around dabs of seasoned ground beef, immersed in a garlic-yogurt-butter sauce. Be sure to order the kunefe dessert at the same time as your entrées, as it takes 20 minutes to prepare this honey-laced, cheesy, phyllo-dough construction so absolutely divine as to please the gods.
Price: $$-$$$
Payment Type: MasterCard, Visa, cash
Parking: Lot Available
Reservations: Not Necessary
Reviews/comments (2)
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Truly a Turkish Delight....the entrees are so authentic you step into the feel of Turkey as soon as the dishes are served. The eggplant stuffed with lamb bits is perfect and with the sour cream and chive sauce you need nothing else. The simple house salad with vinaigrette dressing is a great compliment to any of the entrees.
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I enjoy Anatolia. I really do, but at the end of the day, I think it lives too much on the hype of an ethnic backdrop. Yes, it is not the standard cheeseburger, but are all the dishes that interesting? The lamb kebab is tasty, but ultimately disappointingly simple. Hummus is great as an appetizer, but the dish is so common that grocery stores nationwide now serve heaping mounds of the stuff on a daily basis. I can say, that I truly enjoy the goat cheese phyllo dough rolls, and the service is impeccable. But if you want something truly and enticingly different, don't necessarily get your hopes up at Anatolia.
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