Cafe Efendi

My friends and I are moving to the area. We stopped by to enjoy a hooka and some great food. WOW! I loved it! Authentic. Relaxed. We had a great meal and felt like a part of the family! If you've had a long day and need a place to unwind, don't think twice! Enjoy :D

The lamb was cooked perfectly! Tender, and full of flavor. The only thing was the meat got cold quickly. A heated plate would have kept it warmer longer.

This place has some of the best Turkish food I have ever had at a restaurant in the States. Kudos to the amazing wait staff, too. Check it out on the weekends when they have live music and belly dancing!

Really enjoyed dinner. My wife had lamb chops and I had lamb kebobs. Both were flavorful and we'll cooked. The prices are not cheap, but not ridiculous either. The food seems worth it to me.Update: went back tonight with another couple, didn't really enjoy the experience today. Food and drinks not quite as good, plus poor service and music that was too loud for conversation.

I love this place, mind blowing flovers, and the taste was fascinating, the crew was very much friendly.

Great time and awesome food! Plenty of vegetarian options and kabobs are awesome! Plenty of hookah flavors to pick from. My server Jonathan was awesome and delivered excellent service 👌👍🙌

The total package: excellent food, service, atmosphere and price

Very nice staff. Good food, fun atmosphere and the belly dancer is a bonus

Authentic kabobs juicy, flavorful with great value and wide wine selection, huge bar

Stopped in for an impromptu lunch while in the area and oh my - what great energy in both the customers at the bar and the staff! Food is amazing and with an awesome lunch Doraville.. prepared just as requested, not charred at all even cooked on an open flame! Curious about Turkish wines but not wanting to order a full glass during the day, one of the owners, Barish provided a tasting for me and another guest and Mustafa helped me to reverse it by providing a sample of Turkish coffee! Another guest at the bar requested another tip for her hookah and shared her orange mint hookah with me!What a great experience here, I will be definitely back and often!! ♥️♥️♥️

Very good food, nice atmosphere with live music and belly dancers. Recommended

At the first moment you come to this place the personel give you a great feeling. Very congenial crew, it is a lovely place to to go out with friends and colleagues or with your date. Great cuisine, talented chief cook and stuff, honest cost and courteous service. Highly recommended.

The food is tasty. The vegetarian options are not many. The hummus in the starters is so less that it will definite annoy anyone as it not even suffices the bread. But overall the food has great taste. The ambience is great but very sparsely populated.

Great foooooooooood

Went to Cafe Efendi recently and could definitely see the quality of design implemented throughout the restaurant. It is very tastefully done and setup, with ample seating both indoors and outdoors.The food skews more Turkish than Mediterranean. Overall, the food was good and the service was helpful and courteous.

The hosts are very friendly and the restaurant food is good. However for adana kebab you need to check and make sure it is cooked, sometimes itbis not.

Visited for the first time earlier this evening. Food and service were absolutely spot on. I lived in Turkey many years ago and this was probably the most authentic Turkish cuisine I’ve had stateside, hands down. Thank you Jamie for a wonderful experience, we will be back.

This place is amazing. The food is so good! And the service was out of this world. The owners happened to be sitting next to us during Saturday lunch and saw that our hookah coals were getting low. They kept going out of their way to change them and get us whatever we needed. They even brought us their own concoction of tobacco to try. I definitely recommend the mixed grill entree and Karma Turkish Cabernet. You would be missing out by not giving this place a try.

Excellent food, many choices best hummus I've ever had. Great wait staff, good price!!!

Excellent food, service, wine, nice relaxed atmosphere. Very comfortable home like feel.

The bread that is brought to the table with the house made sauce is everything your taste buds need. I went to there for lunch with a coworker and I had the Adana plate and it was all so good.

Yusuf and Jamie are always there to help. Great food (especially my favorite chicken kabobs) and the hookah... probably the best smoking hookahs on the north side of Atlanta. Not exaggerating. That is coming from a frequent hookah smoker.

One of THE BEST Restaurant in Alphertta. If you are looking for Mediterranean food. Cafe Effendi is right place.I Like their Bread, Soup and the Falafel. Service is awesome.I went for Lunch!

Nice restaurant. Great food option. Courteous service waiting staff. Hukkah. Belly Dance on Saturday evening. Medeterrean entrees. Liquors, Spirits, Cocktails, wines and beers. Enough parking in front.Could be seen from road.

I come to this superb restaurant once a month because I love the good air that is exist in this restaurant. The personel is awfuly welcoming and well trained. The service is exceptionally quick. Needless to say, the food you get is outstanding. I have been there many times and I was always joyful. The rate is decent. I suggest this restaurant to to all.

EXCELLENT PLACE TO EAT TRUE MEDITERRANEAN FOOD ,GREAT COSTUMER SERVICE AND FAMILY ORIENTED LOVE IT EVERYTIME

Yummy chicken kabab and falafels and calamari ! They have hookah and so many things... it’s fully packed on weekends! I heard they even have belly dance on weekends..Night mode set up is good “party”type!

UPDATE FROM PREVIOUS REVIEW: I brought my friends over this time as my wife and i had such a good time and it was phenomenal! Drinks, food, hookah, belly dancer, atmosphere! Good times for sure!Original review: Delicious food and excellent customer service! Very neat setting as well!

Very elegant and authentic. Great prices too

Great location, Food is delicious, Hummus and bread are excellent.

Incredibly delicious food and outstanding service! Highly recommend the mixed grill kabob, it was awesome! It was our first time there and it was on a Sunday night which made it busier than usual but the service was fast, will be a repeat customer for sure!

The best quisine we've eaten so far. We ordered by phone lamb kebab and Iskander kebab to take out to celebrate my husband's birthday. The prices are very reasonable. They gave us two sides of rice, two salads, additionally 2 little salads and bread. We have a plenty of food now, it's impossible to eat 2 dishes for 3 people. Very delicious, healthy food. The staff is very nice, positive despite this current difficulties with quarantine.

We had an amazing time in this restaurant. We enjoyed the first-rate ambience and the meals. The staff are very affable. I am glad we ultimately managed to visit this place.

This place is hands down one of the best Mediterranean restaurants I have been to. The ambience is so pretty and rustic. They have indoor as well as patio seating. And the food is amazing. We had the mixed grill kebab platter and honestly, it surpassed my expectations. All the kebabs were juicy and delightfully flavorful and so was the rice. We'd also had baba ghanoush and that tasted great as well. They also serve hookah. Highly recommend this place.

Great food and great service.

Loved the place. The atmosphere was very friendly and the food was awesome. Their falafel patties were really tasty too, a must try 👍

Loved the taste of the food here. Great service and the food is cooked n served relatively fast!!! So in and out in less than 45 mins after having an appetizer, entree and dessert!!

Liked the ambienceFelt that food prices are a little bit high but overall it was good.

Awesome service and hookah is on point. Now the food... I ordered the Adana and it was the best I’ve ever had. Great flavor, seasoned and cooked to perfection. Environment and space is very cozy and ambiance is great!

Great place to hangout; hookah bar, variety of food; quite options for vegetarians as well :) for desert in tried Kadayif , didn't liked much that though.

Great service... tasty food.

My and my girlfriend come here all the time. The staff and owners are incredible. I love them! They always go out of their way to make us feel at home. The food is awesome. If you have a chance to visit, do so. You will not be disappointed.

Great service delicious food great atmosphere

Cafe Efendi is a truely exceptional place serving authentic Turkish and Mediterranean food. Only here you can find the best in town, home made Doner, Hummus and Babaganoush. Delicious food, Cozy environment, life music will help you build long lasting memories of your life. Strongly Recomend to everyone to visit and experience Turkish hospitality.

The best kabobs and hookah in Alpharetta!! The hookah is always spot on. Try the cool mint and safari melon together! 💨😁Staff is always great!! Attentive and friendly and there's a belly dancer on the weekend that really beautiful and fun! I wouldn't recommend for a first date unless it's during the week or earlier in the day bc it's loud at night. You can't really talk without yelling. Besides that awesome time!! I've been like 20 times already and I've never had a bad time! Highly recommend!