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New Mediterranean restaurant coming to The Greene
NOTE: This entry was updated at 5 p.m. Wednesday, 9-24-08.
The mystery of the new Mediterranean restaurant at The Greene has been solved. Here’s a copy of a story that will run in Thursday’s Dayton Daily News that has a bit more detail than the earlier posting here on Taste:
BEAVERCREEK — The former Cafe Istanbul and Estilo Mediterranean Grille at The Greene is scheduled to reopen in early November as Pasha Grill.
Signs in the window of the restaurant at 72 Plum St. say the restaurant will be a Mediterranean grill, and Michael Duffey, spokesman for The Greene, said the restaurant’s menu will be similar to that of Cafe Istanbul, which closed at The Greene in 2007.
The owner of the 3,200-square-foot restaurant will be Fatih Gunal, who owns Cafe Istanbul in the Easton shopping and entertainment complex in suburban Columbus. Gunal was not the original owner of either the Easton’s or The Greene’s Cafe Istanbul restaurants, but has served as a “turnaround artist” of sorts for the Easton restaurant, which is now profitable, Duffey said.
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By GH01TR
November 11, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
Owner of Pasha Grill Is the best Turkish Chief in Columbus I m sure he will Rock that Place.. Great REAL Turkish food PS: Pasha Grill Having Bely Danceing This Friday(Nov 14) and Saturday (Nov 15) Around 7.30 ish I belive..
By Cafe Istanbul Worker
September 28, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
Chef- do you mean cengiz Saraman? The Chef that was brought over from Istanbul to develop the menu? Is that not authentic enough for you? Adobe’s crowd killed the place, have people urinate on the patio plants and scream and yell during dinner service was common. Putting a fine dining place below and drinking hole like Adobe’s was the real mistake. As for The Insider, your inside the wrong building. The orginal owner owned the one in Easton, Savas, a turkish guy ran the one at the Greene until he stopped showing up. Then, they found another Turkish guy Ti’ to run it. All the Steiner group did was try and get a group that really cared about turkish food to run the place well. Can’t win for losing. Please don’t gossip if you don’t know what has happened. Even if you think you know,be quiet. It’s not your place.
By AK
September 24, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
Insider, I agree 100% with your sentiments. Having spent some time in Dubai this Summer made me miss Cafe Istanbul terribly. Smart, simple and clean food. Hopefully this new Pasha Grill can compete. Happy Dining!
By Chef V the Turk
September 24, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Adobe’s shadey frequenters will hamper any restaurant that tries to occupy that location. Cafe Istambul had potential, but needed an authentic Turkish chef to make authentic Turkish cuisine. That was their mistake.
By Jeff
September 24, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
By The Insider
September 24, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
Cafe Istanbul was a wonderful restaurant originally operated by a Turkish family. They were offered a large number for their three restaurants at Easton, The Greene & Newport on The Levee. The buyers were investors that didn’t know how to run the restaurant and it failed. Steiner, the owner of the Greene, bought the assets to try and keep the restaurant and found a new operator on the fly, but he couldn’t pull it back together. Let’s hope this operator can get it right. We love eating Mediterranean and will certainly give it a shot.
By The Obvious
September 24, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this
I guess they either think 3rd time’s the charm..or they are just plain stupid! They should listen to what people would like to see there..and maybe people would keep the place in business.
By Loves to Eat
September 24, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
That location in The Greene has a long standing middle eastern curse that dates back 10 b.c. because it is over a sacred burial ground unknown to the developers. A Mediterranean restaurant will never survive at that spot. Put in a high class restaurant like White Castle!