Truva Cafe and Grill
“Excited to see the outside garden during the warmer months and will also be ordering delivery.”
“Nicos was fab, and I didn't know who he was when he photo boomed by backyard shot!”
“Yaay :)) first time I ordered lahmacun turkish pizza, it is a little tricky food, its either good or bad; and it was very very good!”
Truva Cafe and Grill
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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Truva alas brings Turkish cuisine to Astoria. For the Astoria newbies it will be way too long of a lecture to describe the significance of this. Just chalk it up to ancient animosities stemming from an over 428 year occupation of the Greeks by the Ottomans. What boggles my mind is why aren't my fellow Greeks equally upset about the over 1,500 year occupation by the Romans? (from the Battle of Corinth 146 BC to 1453). But I digress…
I love the lamb doner/gyro/shawarma plate with salad and their magnificent rice pilaf. Admittedly I have been uncharacteristically reluctant to sample much else because I enjoy the doner. However on my "must try soon" list are the adanas as well as other fares.
No meal is complete without a "Kazan dibi" (translates into the bottom of the pan) and Turkish coffee. This is a light cream dessert that has been intentionally burned and served bottom side up. The coffee has fine ground beans that settle at the bottom of the dainty serving cup; you aren't supposed to drink the gook found at the bottom.
In my village on the island in Greece that was featured in the Mamma Mia movie, head to toe black clad old ladies turn their mostly depleted coffee cups upside down so that the coffee grinds at the bottom of their cups slowly seep onto the serving plate–about five minutes. Lines are formed as the coffee grinds make their way from the bottom (think glacial movements). The ladies then proceed to tell one's future by right-siding the cups and interpreting the lines left by the coffee grinds. Undoubtedly this learned ancient practice is taught to the Greeks by the occupying Turks.
Keeping with my island's tradition, I did likewise to the delight of the Turkish waitresses but to the dismay of the dish washer. I have no idea on how to interpret the lines so I made things up–which I suspect that the aforementioned old ladies do likewise. There's one constant interpretation that I've observed if you happen to be a young, single woman: the old ladies reading the cup always see in your future a mysterious, tall, dark and handsome man and a long journey…
There's also dining al fresco which I haven't yet taken advantage of because of the weather; either too humid or too rainy. Perhaps on my return later in the week.
This place has one of the best Turkish food I've ever tried. Pretty big spot and they have an outdoor section too. The sigara boregi are pan fried phyllo scrolls stuffed with feta and are very delicious.. I got the mixed grill which has a combination of different types of meat. It was amazing, had tremendous taste, and it's very filling.
Will have to dine in, hoping to round this review to a full five stars! LOVED every bite flavor throughout the entire mixed grill, the rice, and the generous personal loaf of turkish bread. Divine!
Delivery was pretty fast, and everything was the perfect temperature when it arrived.
Will order many times over, and recommend you give them at least one try!
I'd been wanting to try a proper Turkish breakfast ever since we totally failed to find one when we were in Istanbul for one day on a cruise a year ago. We were in NY for a few days earlier this month, and I figured, NY is the best place to find just about any kind of food you want, no matter how specific, so I asked yelp for a place, and this is what I found.
I was a little sad that the breakfast platter was just served as a platter, rather than on a dozen tiny plates/bowls like you see in the pictures, but I'm willing to overlook that on grounds that the food was super-legit. 4 pieces of very good bread with honey and amazing clotted cream (I hadn't had *real*, i.e. fresh clotted cream before, now I see why people rave about it so much), an assortment of meats, cheeses and fresh olives, a salad, and a substantial pot of tea for 13 bucks = very yes.
We also got a couple pita wraps, and a lahmajun. The Pita wraps were just pita wraps – they were good, but you can get that anywhere, and they weren't notably better than you could get anywhere. At that point, turns out that was enough food for two hungry people, so we took the lahmajun to go.
The lahmajun was quality, though I was surprised to see it covered in parsley, lettuce and onions – apparently, according to wikipedia, that's common, but I hadn't seen it before. The meat and dough were quality, but I had to throw out some of the onion, otherwise it was just too oniony. Anyway, the breakfast was the clear winner (though the lahmajun was pretty impressive too, for amount to price ratio.)
Service was, expectedly, also great. Nothing particular to say about it, but no complaints.
First off, this place is not BYOB. That was partially one of the reasons we were going to go here. Though we were bummed about the no alcohol this place serves we did stay to grab some dinner. We ordered the large chicken Shish kebab and a plate of hummus with pita. Interestingly enough this place does not serve your stereotypical flat pita bread but something similar to fresh baked bread with what appears to be sesame seeds on top. I'm a fan of hummus and pita/bread so I enjoyed it. Would I come again? I'm not completely sure. I'd say this is average Mediterranean food, nothing amazing.
Came here for dinner on a Saturday night, in addition to lots of indoor seating, there is a nice large outdoor section outside. Our waiter was very friendly and helpful. I don't know what exactly falls under the Turkish food category, so we had no clue what to order on the menu, he was very patient and nice, explained things and answered all our dumb questions.
This place is BYOB which is awesome, we didn't know when we got there, but our nice waiter informed us and advised where we could go to pick up some beer.
The Food:
Complimentary Pita for the table which was warm and delicious!
I love spicy, but my husband can't handle too much. So our waiter suggested bringing some spicy on the side for us. I think in general spicy is better cooked into the food, but it was nice on the side as I got to put it on everything we ordered.
Chicken and Lamb Adana Kabob $13
Was nice to be able to try both chicken and lamb, both were very good with great flavor. I honestly don't know if I would choose one over the other. Comes with a side of rice and salad which is a perfect complement to the meat.
Lahmacun – $4
Is a Turkish styled pizza. Flat bread dough topped with ground lamb and chopped tomato, peppers, onion and parsley. Saw a bunch of pictures of this and wanted to try it out. Is an amazing starter or side for $4. It's very thin, but quite delicious. Loved it with the spicy sauce
Patatesli Pide $10.50
Is a potato pide. A thick dough crust stuffed with potato. Is a vegetarian dish and was quite filling because of the potato. Great texture and flavor.
Really enjoyed our meal here. The food was good, staff was nice, byob always is a plus as well! Would definitely recommend this place to others and come back here again!
As fancy and unique Truva sounds unfortunately it couldn't live up to its name and hype. Truva conveniently located near Ditmars on one of the busiest streets in Astoria, it was truly sad to see such a beautiful establishment being ran so poorly.The service was atrocious and slapdash, we were sat at 8;15 and had to wait almost an over 70 minutes for our food to come out. The servers kept bringing plates of dishes to wrong tables and didn't know who ate what and kept auctioning the plates. After our food arrived you can easily tell the food was rushed. The tasteless adana was half burnt on one side and flipped to hide that it was burnt. The lamb kebab was also burnt and the lamb gyro was lukewarm near cold. We also ordered the "mixed pide" which came out by the time we were ready to have dessert drenched in oil . The spinach yogurt dip barely had any spinach in it. The only thing thats worth giving a star was the outside patio. For desserts the kunefe came out dry as a bone the rice pudding was just ok , the turkish tea was so old it left a bad after taste. Overall i don't dine out to slam restaurants, but this was beyond horrible. I honestly have never seen any restaurant operating at the point where Truva is. My best advice to the management would be to just train employees right, cook the food proper and do not panic. I wish the best luck to all of you.
I've had Truva bookmarked on Yelp for a while, so I am happy to say that I finally got to check out this restaurant last night…or shall we say, this morning. I arrived at Truva a little after midnight as it was shutting down. Initially I was told I could order to go, but the servers there were nice enough to let me dine in (it wouldn't have looked so good to take a full plate of turkish food into the bar where I was headed). I ordered a popular dish — the large Lamb Adana Kebab, which comes with salad, turkish rice (pilav) and two kebabs. The rice was delicious, buttery and fragrant. The salad was full of tomatoes and red cabbage. I'm not a fan of tomatoes, so I picked them out, but it was still incredibly fresh and flavorful. As for the kebabs, they were well seasoned with just the right amount of spice. They went well with the obligatory yogurt and hot sauce.
Because I came so late at night I didn't get to check out their patio, but I'm certainly looking forward to it during an upcoming visit during the summertime; I will definitely return to Truva to try some more items off of their menu. The bathrooms are modern and the long persian rug clad booth that lines the side of the restaurant adds a traditional flare to the otherwise understated decor.