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Tried this restaurant last night and the food was GREAT!
I had Armenian Pork chops and I have never had such a tasty meal.
If you are getting tired of curry and fish and chips and Turkish food, try this restaurant.

Nice place, very friendly people.

Where abouts is it please?

Yeah! stating in which town it is might be a help!

It is in Alsancak.

If driving from Girne: turn left at the Golden Lady then first left as if going up to the Riverside and you will find the restaurant on the right hand side.

You can't miss it, it looks huge from the outside!

At last a restaurant has opened serving excellent food, at sensible prices in pleasant surrounding, with first class management and staff, MADE IN USSR, in Alsancak. It is situated on the way to the Riverside holiday complex, 100 m from the main road.
We have tasted only 4 dishes but presentation and taste was such we can not wait to return to sample more.
The menu is extensive, mostly dishes from the ex- Soviet republics, it makes very interesting reading. I have spent several years lecturing to the food industry in Russia- look forward to trying every offering.

We have lived in North Cyprus for 10 years and have tried most restaurants of any reputation; this is one of only a few we are looking forward to a return visit!

Made in USSR- it is former Lacem, former the Barrel, former the Silk Way.

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After reading the above - we went for lunch today - and were the only people there - though I gather they usually have a fair sprinkling in the evenings.
We had a very pleasant light lunch. The little salad was lovely, the main was good but we hadnt realised we also needed to order potato and veg as side dishes - but as we were not too hungry it didnt bother us this time - and a delightful icecreamy dessert. My husband looked for the pork mentioned above but could only find one pork dish, which it certainlywasn't!! He had the only pork mentioned and found it excellent - but I feel someone younger with a larger appetite may have thought it a little meagre.

I hope they make a go of it, but I;m afriad to say that building seems to have the finger of doom on it. Nothing every lasts long there. The Thai food lovers amongst us, were delighted when Silk Way started up, but apparently rarely went there. We went a couple of times when the Alsancak Muhta ran it as Lacem and the food was dire. I hope they succeed where others have failed dismally.

And the prices are????????????????

Slightly more expensive than the usual. The prices are good value for money.

The prices are not expensive and portions are big.

I agree that the place is not the most sophisticated but we can recommend the food.And we have already told all our friends and are going again for lunch this week.

Funny how every one contradicts each other.

To me one man's cheap is my expensive, so an actual cost wuld help. Please! I don't like walking in a restaurant, looking at the menu and running out screaming! Not nice!

went there last night...nothing great about it..i often wonder if people who come on the forum and write " oh the place was wonderfull i was nearly coming just sitting there" do they get out often !!!!

Deniz1 wrote:Funny how every one contradicts each other.

They can't all contradict each other. Think about it......

Marions wrote:To me one man's cheap is my expensive, so an actual cost wuld help. Please! I don't like walking in a restaurant, looking at the menu and running out screaming! Not nice!

Could I suggest you drop in for a drink and ask to see a menu at the bar. Take it from there.

mamachina wrote:After reading the above - we went for lunch today - and were the only people there - though I gather they usually have a fair sprinkling in the evenings.
We had a very pleasant light lunch. The little salad was lovely, the main was good but we hadnt realised we also needed to order potato and veg as side dishes - but as we were not too hungry it didnt bother us this time - and a delightful icecreamy dessert. My husband looked for the pork mentioned above but could only find one pork dish, which it certainlywasn't!! He had the only pork mentioned and found it excellent - but I feel someone younger with a larger appetite may have thought it a little meagre.

The menu is confusing as it is physically quite small but runs to quite a few pages. The items on the menu are in Russian and English and Turkish. You will need your bifocals to read it.
Ask for the "Armenian Pork Chops"

Will check it out tonight and let you know what I thought.

I find that if you think of food as fuel there will never be any culinary disappointments to suffer (unless it is Haggis). It is cheaper than boiler oil and logs. The Wildebeest (bless her) has expended numerous sachets of veet to remove body hair and gone to UK leaving me with two ugly cats, a washing machine, a vacuum cleaner, a list of bills to pay and a cupboard full of tinned baked beans. I doubt the washing machine will ever work again but I did manage to flood wash the kitchen floor by forcing the door open when it stopped making a noise not knowing there was still a fill and spin cycle to come. The vacuum cleaner is equally knackered as I broke some plasticky bits as I tried to get the filter out to clean it. The baked beans involve the use of a tin opener so remained intact as I set off for my breakfast at 2 pm clutching a list "King Prawns in Curry, Egg fried Rice etc etc". The takeaway had a note on the door "closed for holidays until 16 Oct" Oh dear I said (or similar words) the Wildebeest is due back on the 14th. Contingency plan then effected "Big ass all day breakfast and s.d the cholesterol burst" at the Cafe Britain (no prices displayed). Instead of paying the bills I have filled the fridge with bottles of Lager in readiness for the Premiership match on TV at 10 pm tonight and hope I stay sober long enough to watch it. I guarantee that if asked tomorrow how culinary matters were in the absence of Wilde I will not be able to remember any disappointment and reply "Lovely Jubbly" even if I am broken hearted on my own. If the cats share my bed and nick my Lipitor and Rennie tablets I am in for a rough night !

Talk aboutt 'It's a dawg's life'. But you will recover, and she will return, suitablly castigate you and allow you to go on living. I mean, that iis what do with mine! (better half, that is).
anyway, we both shall tonight see how it is going to Russia , taking magnifying glasses to read the menu; Rennies forr afterwards and try not to bust ether the calorie alowance or the cholesterol level (can't take more than one Lipitor a day)

thanks for the laugh DD, but actually sharing a bed with the animals in the absence of a spouse means one gets more of the bed to stretch out in, so can't be all bad.

so watch out for a forthcoming report from one lady who eats to live, who is accompanied by a man who lives to eat, plus others - and learn just how it is to visit the USSR whilst stillbeing on Cypriot soil.

I honestly dont want to knock the restruant..however i do agree that the menu is barley readable...what is the most readable is the 10% service charge..fair enough..but regarding price it is a tad more than other places only because you pay extra for vegetables and chips etc..but you wont have to dig to deep to pay for them.
Regarding the Aremenian chop..well..it was a ordinary chop...it was nice but it was a chop...
Good luck to made in the Ussr.. would i go back...yes.

Jock,

Vaughan told me that it was cooked with fennel (fresh or seeds? - not sure...) and plenty of onion - just how I like to do mine, plus tomato, that is...

Was yours just 'plain'?

Well I've learnt something new today.
I thought an Armenian Chop was a wrestling move.

brianc wrote:At last a restaurant has opened serving excellent food, at sensible prices in pleasant surrounding, with first class management and staff, MADE IN USSR, in Alsancak. It is situated on the way to the Riverside holiday complex, 100 m from the main road.
We have tasted only 4 dishes but presentation and taste was such we can not wait to return to sample more.
The menu is extensive, mostly dishes from the ex- Soviet republics, it makes very interesting reading. I have spent several years lecturing to the food industry in Russia- look forward to trying every offering.

We have lived in North Cyprus for 10 years and have tried most restaurants of any reputation; this is one of only a few we are looking forward to a return visit!

Made in USSR- it is former Lacem, former the Barrel, former the Silk Way.

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brianc, I have a feeling that you have been pulling our legs on this one or have you been paid to praise this place.

I agree with Soner, or as they used to say at uni 'Please explain....'. And if the statement is true, did I go on the wrong night?

No , I am not paid for advertising MADE IN USSR , I simply enjoyed the food there and was happy to share it with you!

Sorry, will not do any more!

jock1 wrote:I honestly dont want to knock the restruant..however i do agree that the menu is barley readable...what is the most readable is the 10% service charge..fair enough..but regarding price it is a tad more than other places only because you pay extra for vegetables and chips etc..but you wont have to dig to deep to pay for them.
Regarding the Aremenian chop..well..it was a ordinary chop...it was nice but it was a chop...
Good luck to made in the Ussr.. would i go back...yes.

Of course a pork chop is a pork chop. It's the way it is cooked and its accompaniments that make it different.

brianc wrote:No , I am not paid for advertising MADE IN USSR , I simply enjoyed the food there and was happy to share it with you!

Sorry, will not do any more!

No please do.

Just shows that , as with entertainers, food is a subjective thing and I am sure others that try it will love it.

I agree Looseboots, brianc do carry on, I must have just went on a bad day and had a bad experience.

And me, soner, but maybe our expectations were too high! But too many negatives in one go, starting, as others have commented n the postings, the menu which was impossible to read even with 20 20 vjsion and extra candles. But was assured a new one was on its way and had to come from Istanbul! why oh why did not someone proof read it before printing.
Also I was given a wrong order in spite of spelling it out, pointing it out, and hoping - guess it was a linguistic hitch. And I DID so want salad and got a lettuce leaf, a slice of tomato and another of cucumber.
waiter was nice, though and very helpful, but even when he asked if all was well we did not feel to criticise - two lots of chips, one overcooked and the other undercooked (so they said).
But, there are those to whom the food would be marvelllous, and as I say, most definitely the waiter was good and they are just beginning , - good for snacks though, as long as one is not in a hurry.
But maybe it was a bad day - might have been short staffed, or have other problems.

Look, give the place a chance. There is a particular resteraunt,that regularly gets good comments, which I reluctantly go to,because friends like the court yard. But the food and service are poor. If I named it some would go no way. . Everyone's different. To me it's about the company you are with, what you make of the night or afternoon your having. Put your self in there position,new place new menu,new customers,new everything probably. I

nobody is knocking it ham on brown..thet are telling it as it is !!!

It's a bit like trying to be King Solomon in this country when judging eateries. I've eaten in the the most expensive in this country which has been OK, I've eaten in little local cafes, which haa been OK, I've eaten foreign, I've eaten British, I've eaten local but in over 7 years I can honestly say I have never come out of an establishment thinking, "that was momentously wonderful" and wanting to go back asap.

Theonly place I have been to where I thought wow was the Bellapais Gardens hotel.I have eaten there twice and it is superb food and service is excellent in fact I am taking friends there on Saturday.

Am i your friend, can i come............

If you want to Jock.

ok

Well four of us went last night and the food was pretty grim actually.

3 of us had the Armenian pork chops - quite what makes them Armenian defies me as it was just a grilled pork chop with lots of fat and little meat. The sauce was served separately (no problem with that) but it was served cold (!).

The mixed vegetables was actually ratatouille, not too bad I suppose, the mashed potato was lovely though.

The service was attentive if not too attentive. We kept having our conversation interrupted every few minutes asking if everything was ok.

They are trying, that's obvious, but why don't they just concentrate on Eastern European food - not put pasta etc on the menu.

There are too many dishes to choose from. They would be better having a much smaller menu and everything on the menu cooked well.

Only my honest opinion.....
Twinkletoes

jock1 wrote:nobody is knocking it ham on brown..thet are telling it as it is !!!

MSG 32 see msg 38.

Oooh you wicked people - mentioning pork!!! We have not had pork of any description or bacon (which is worse) for over 6 years . Yet another down side of living in Sinai Egypt.

Right!!, that's it - I am definitely moving over to TRNC just so I can get my teeth into a big juicy pork chop. OOOh I will have lovely dreams tonight and then wake up to Falafel and Foul. That is not a spelling mistake, but by golly it is foul to eat and looks suspiciously like slushy doo-doo's.

I haven't seen any big fat juicy pork chops in NC restaurants, have I missed something?

Yes you have. Buy some from the Pork Butchers next door to Pitstop Catalkoy they are great.

woodspeckie wrote:I haven't seen any big fat juicy pork chops in NC restaurants, have I missed something?

Try Freddies Bar, Alsancak - they serve whoppers

Deniz. I haven't come across them in any Restaurants, I don't live there but I will ask at the Pia Bella when I stay there at the end of Nov. if they will cook them for me, I am sure they will, if not I will try Feddies bar.

Only been back just over a week, noticed this restaurant ( having previously been to it as the Barrel and missed it when the Thai Silk moved in ) two days in, so called in for a drink and to peruse the menu, despite obvious flaws on menu we had decided to give it a go, having second thoughts now!

On the subject of Pork, I must recommend the Pork shop opposite the Starling on the main road on the way into Alsancak, I always visit within days of coming back to the Island and for 100tl get a couple of bags full to pop in the freezer good variety of cuts, pork chops are massive!

Have been to the new restaurant in Alsancak next to the 'Fast Food Cafe' a couple of times and enjoyed good TC food both times and very reasonable @25tl inc mezzes and dessert with fruit platter, the staff are delightful and enthusiastic.

Ha Ha Oink Oink - have I started a new sub thread here called "hunt the pork chops"?. At least my little input yesterday is providing responses with info to where to find nice big pork chops/meat for all of you over there. I am still very jealous!!

Personally I'm not over keen on the P.C's in the PC Shop opposite Starlings. Granted they're huge but are too fatty for my taste, so I always buy the Pork Steaks which are supe. I also buy their ham joints, which I either boil and eat cold or roast first coating them with honey and a sprinkling of cinnamon Scrummy!!

sophie wrote:Personally I'm not over keen on the P.C's in the PC Shop opposite Starlings. Granted they're huge but are too fatty for my taste, so I always buy the Pork Steaks which are supe. I also buy their ham joints, which I either boil and eat cold or roast first coating them with honey and a sprinkling of cinnamon Scrummy!!

Also very nice if you score the fat 'criss-cross' and then stud it with cloves...

"stud it"? Is that some sort of euphemism?

Sophie your being very very cruel - I am drooling over here reading your last post, Mmmmm.

When I was in the UK with easy access to pork and especially ham joints or knuckles I used to boil them as you do. But after removing the joint I used to chuck in loads of carrots, onions swede etc etc and make a big pot of broth (really yummy with fresh baked bread on a cold chilly winters night). Sorry can't write any more - have to go find a towel to wipe my mouth