Food: ☆☆☆☆

Service: ☆☆☆½

Ambiance: ☆☆

Cost: $$

Must try: Musakka, Chicken Adana,

 Bi Lokma is Chef Orhan Yegen’s tiny Midtown Turkish eatery. The food here is delightfully home-style and really affordable.

Bi Lokma is buzzingly busy for lunch where long lines and cafeteria-style service take over. I would opt to visit during the calmer hours of dinner, where the wonderful warmth of Turkey infuses the space. .

The menu at Bi Lokma presents really simple dishes with clean flavors. The food is authentic and unfussy! In this tiny space they actually have a chef from Adana to make the Adana kebabs (which were delicious). Our hostess Nesrin could not have been friendlier.

 I’ve been on a mission to find in New York city some of the flavors I experienced in Turkey and have been terribly disappointed numerous times… till now.

 Bi Lokma in Turkish means “one bite.”   Well, that’s all I needed to be hooked!

Here is some of what we ate:

Coban Salad

Patican

Cacik

Musakka

Chicken Adana

Baklava