Talulla Restaurant

They do have great food, however, it's not worth the price. I have discovered other restaurants in the area (Durham, Cary) with the same quality, the prices are much lower. If they lowered the prices, or had larger servings, I would dine there much more often. Pros: Good Food Cons: Way overpriced!!! more

My husband and I were there last evening. What a wonderful place. The atmosphere is created by the vibrant undertones from the oriental kilims on the wall, the authentic Turkish chandeliers, lamps, the hard wood floors? more

One of my favorite restauraunts in chapel Hill, the food is deliciously flavored, atmosphere is nice, waitstaff are pleasant and helpful, definitely a must try for anyone who likes Middle Eastern or Mediterranean food. The entire menu is fantastic, but I would reccomend the Manti, Adana Kebab, Iskender Kebab, for anyone wanting to try out the restauraunt. I went there on friday, they were really busy , I thought the service or food quality will be poor, but everything was great. Highly recommended more

What can I say? There should be a Talulla's everywhere. It's absolutely amazing. The best lamb I've ever eaten, seriously. the food is always satisfying. The worst part about Talulla's is deciding what to get. The service was great. more

Wonderful service, wonderful atmosphere, friendly people, great food, reasonable prices in my book. Amazing menu offered choices for everyone in our party, from age 7 on up. It was great to try a bunch of different quite exotic dishes and I can definately see returning again to try some others. We were all full with food leftover with a total cost of $20/person including some shared desserts and some wine - in my book, about the same we could have spent getting chain food elsewhere. Excellent customer service starting with when we called for directions; couldn't ask for better. Thanks for making my British cousins' last dinner in the States a memorable one!! Pros: Service, Decor, Food Cons: Cant think of anything bad.. ? more

I found this place by surprise and my first impression was absolutely great. I was greated by a beautill host who assisted me to get a nice comfortable table that I liked. Although they where very busy the waiter gave me promp service with a smile, treated me like if me and my company where the only customers in the room. I received everything I wanted, including service with a great smile an no attitude. The food is simple and delicious. Try a few small dishes to get some variety before the main course.Great Turkish beer.This place makes you feel like family. Can't say enough about it...\r more

\r We arrived at 9:20PM, and were told there would be a 20 minute wait for a table . . . so we decided to stay and waited in the bar area. After 30 minutes waiting there, we asked the manager about our table . . . as we noticed an empty table to one side of the restaurant. Apparently we were forgotten and had to remind them of our seating requirement and wait. \r \r He said we could go over and be seated . . . which we did. After waiting another 15 minutes at the table without being attended to . . . we interrupted a waitress, asking for menus, which she then brought. After another couple of minutes she then came to the table and said the kitchen was closed, we were very surprised about this, and very disappointed.\r \r We left the restaurant about 10:20 PM . . . \r \r Seated customers should be attended to and served ASAP . . . especially after a long wait. Customers that have been seated should be served, or those customers waiting should have a clear undertanding of when the kitchen is closed . . . having the opportunity to make other arrangements. Seated customers should have prompted dining service to them .. . period.\r \r Hint: go to Turkey and see how customer service is truly performed ! ! ! more

After having eaten here, it has become my new mission to warn everyone about this place!\r \r As soon as we walked in and were ignored by the staff for 5 minutes, we should have walked out. It was 7ish on Thursday evening and the place was 1/3 full. When a waiter finally did come up to us, he stated he didn't think there was room (there were 5 of us total). After consulting w/another waiter, he sat us down; we were there for 2 hours and only one couple came in after us, so I don't know why they didn't think there was room.\r \r After sitting down, it took about 10 minutes before a waitress came by; mind you, this place was only A THIRD full, so it was definitely not busy. After taking our orders, our waitress never came by to check on us, so we had to resort to flagging her down in order to get her attention for refilling our water and ordering more drinks. \r \r The food arrived and appeared fine. But upon tasting it, blah! My partner got stuffed dumplings, which were bland...no taste whatsoever. She also got shrimp and cheese bowl; it was just a bowl with heavy cheese and 2 shrimp in broth underneath. We love cheese, but this was too much and it tasted awful. I ordered a fillo-wrapped tilapia, which was okay, but should have been better for the price. One of our dining partners ordered the vegetarian assorted platter; she stated it was average, but she expected more for $17.99, which did not include pita bread, which is essential for fully enjoying the various dips on the platter. She had to pay extra for that. \r \r We ended our meal with Turkish coffee. When it arrived, it tasted like water; there was about 1 inch of brown sludge at the bottom. It tasted nothing like turkish coffee should have been. \r \r In the end, this place was overpriced, had mediocre food, and poor service. The only thing I can say that is positive is that the interior design of the place is pretty cool.\r Pros: Decor Cons: Food, service, prices, coffee more

I was looking for a place to take my mother for her birthday, after reading the reviews I got on my knees and thanked god I no longer worked as a wait person. For those of you who have never had to serve the public, or worked in a restaurant open your eyes. First the all the most popular time to eat is between 7 and 7:30 pm with a 9 (give or take 30 min.) second rush on the weekends. If you want to be seated on a weekend night with speed make a reservation other wise plan on waiting an hour. If you are going to a place with like real food, it takes time to prepare. Real food is not pre-made, like say a place like Apple B's, where they just nuke your pre-packaged food. Also if their is a problem think that is may be something out the employees hands, for example maybe the hostess was new and someone did not show for work. In other words try a little kindness. Don't expect to get in and out of place on the weekend in a hurry, unless it is a burger joint or K and W. If you need some food to help your mood you can always get an appetizer at the bar a and a cocktail. Enjoy yourself that is why you are going out right? I think I will be going to eat here b/c almost everyone said the food was good. more

I went here last winter with The Triangle Singles Dining Out Group (meetup), and there were 12 of us I think... We got excellent service, the food was INCREDIBLE, the ambience was wonderful, and it is my FAVORITE restaurant in the Triangle area... I only wish it were bigger so we could have had more people come from our group :) Pros: Service, Food, Ambience Cons: On Street Parking more

The problem with Talulla is it's just so busy on the weekends, resulting in less than stellar service by its waitstaff. However, I keep going back because the food simply rocks. I love the mezze platter - mixed appetizers such as hummus, baba ghanouj, lentil spread, and more. I also love the Turkish pizzas, and their baklava is to die for. If you go with just one or two other people, call ahead and ask to sit in the lounge - you'll be sitting on cushions on the floor, but it's so cozy and romantic in there! Pros: great food, relatively cheap Cons: slow service, big crowds more

The food was decent. I don't have any experience in Turkish cuisine, but it is not my favorite restaurant. The food was very foreign, not a comfortable interpretation of the cuisine for a beginnner. more

The hostess ignored us at first. We were told a 20 minute wait. We ended up waiting a total of 45 minutes, and for about the last 20 minutes of that time frame, there were 2 other tables open (but they sat 4, we had 2). The hostess actually has to ask us if we were waiting for a table. Are you kidding me? only 3 other groups come in after us and you can't remember who needs a table?! Anyway, we finally got sat at a cocktail table. Immediately the manager comes over to us and asks me to move my chair around to the other side of the cocktail table and for my husband to scoot further along the bench so as to make room for opening up the DJ booth. Had a longer review, but was too many words for this. point is --> we left. more

Overall a very satisfying dining experience. It took a couple minutes to be seated. Low-lighting and nice decor lent itself to a pleasant ambiance. The bread was very good and glasses of wine were half-price the night we went. My husband's fish casserole appetizer and beef kebabs were ""okay"" but we both agreed that the Turkish pizza is the reason to come. The pizza I ordered had spicy Turkish beef pepperoni with several different cheeses, including Turkish cheese, and an egg (a la francais) right on top. When it arrived, it looked like a huge boat--definitely very tasty and filling for only $9. There are several different types of pizza to choose from to suit your taste. The servers were very attentive to our needs. So if for no other reason, go and try their delicious pizza (and enjoy the warm bread AND warm ambiance while you're at it!). Pros: atmosphere, pizza more

I do not understand where the other reviewer ( down memory lane) is coming from. Not only the food was excellent but the service and the drinks were superb. I would consider this restaurant my favorite in hte entire triangle. The food was incredibly fresh, the meats just melted in your mouth. I do not know where they buy that amazing lamb but it is out of this world. I later found out that they merinated for 2 dsays in a secret special sauce. We along with a group of 8 stayed late after finding out that there was a dance party starting later. The metamorphases occured from a full fledged vibrant restaurant into a dance club. Wow the party was on..We danced until very late enjoying the faboulous drink specials that the very curtious bar staff had made for us. Amzing time. What a discovery... more

Originally growing up in the Balkans, I couldn't wait to go to Talulla's for a taste of years gone by. It was dark inside, perhaps to set a romantic mood, or maybe to mask some of the patched up interior work. The dinner started on a high note, the bread and dipping oil were fantastic, and I had a ginger martini which was also good. I suppose my expectations were high, but the best way to sum up my thoughts on the food is that it tasted like what my grandmother made with leftover meat the NEXT day, after the real meal. My dish was definitely sub par, but if I ordered my gf's, I would have to send it back and order something else (and this is coming from a european). To sum it up: good drinks, decent ambiance, but bad food. Pros: drinks Cons: food more

After reading the ""mithcpage"" review expectations weren't high, but despite the warning, we found no low tables with floor cushions, no dripping ceiling, no greasy food. The only ""downer"" was a lengthy wait at the door. When a ""four-top"" was the first table available, we were told they didn't want to give it to a twosome. A party of four arrived and was promptly seated, but the very next table -- also for four -- was given to us, so we were appeased. And pleased! She had the seafood pizza, I had the filet mignon cous-cous -- both modestly priced, scrumptious, and copious, the cous-cous as good as any I've had anywhere in the world, complemented by delicious warm bread and dipping oil. (Ask for the recipe!) The wait staff was pleasant, informed, and quick to please. What more could one ask? All in all, a superb dining experience. Pros: Exceptional food, Good service, window seats for 6 Cons: waiting time, limited waiting space more

Do NOT go to Talulla's. EVER. It was, BY FAR, the worst dining experience. First, no two-person tables were available, so rather than seating us at one of several larger tables, they offered the 'lounge' (a tiny platform with 2 pillows on the floor and a dilapidated foot stool as a table) or sitting at a 12"" cafe table. After 20 minutes of no service, we finally seated ourselves at one of the several open tables and had to flag down a waitress just to order. To make matters worse, the food was oily, overpriced, and the ceiling was dripping right above our table. To my horror, one of the waiters came over and - literally - mopped the water off right above my head (and our dinners)! I went here based on my date's recommendation - needless to say, I was not impressed with his taste. Cons: , waitstaff slow, food overpriced more

I cannot rave enough about the service - the staff is always available, very friendly and insanely knowledgeable. The food is consistently delicious and prepared with attention to detail. The menu is extensive and accommodating to just about every type of diet. The only complaint is the price: most 'little dishes' start at $7 with entrees in the mid teens. It was about $30/person with drinks. Won't stop me from going back, though! Do make reservations - the place is always packed! Pros: Service, Food, Atmsphere more