alazarus's Profile
Cafe Troya Update
enjoy it! not sure the Aziza analogy can be made in terms of overall quality, so again, my sense is that there's demand for more variations.
Cafe Troya Update
my sense is that there could be an opportunity for another chef/merchant to do something a little different. we'd definitely check it out. there's a stretch of Second Avenue in New York that has an assortment of such eateries:
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/uskudar/
Cafe Troya Update
i think i know why it isn't so hard to get a table at Troya. my wife and i walked in and had an pretty underwhelming dinner there two weekends ago.
briefly, the Mediterranean spreads were just plain bland (compare them to those at Aziza and you'll know the difference); the flatbread was ok. the manti were more like ravioili than the smallish dumplings they ought to be; also, they must sit in a tangy yogurt sauce, not just get zigzagged with some out of a squirt bottle. the moussaka had nothing in the way of texture to hold it together.
the biggest disappointment, though, was the baklava: dry, honeyless and unsticky. we should have sent it back or shimmed a table with it.
total, with a couple of glasses of wine, tax and tip was $84. we'll stick to Sunrise Deli on Irving and with Aziza for splurges.
