Garlic Mediterranean Grill, Santa Clara CA

My #1 restaurant. Absolutely love the food and service. When will you open your doors? I am literally checking on a weekly basis.

Best lahmacun at the West Coast! Very good Turkish food. We tried lahmacun and it was really good, very delicious. Highly recommended.

First time in. This was my introduction to Turkish food. We were greeted immediately and I felt welcomed.
The lahmacun was really good. Again, first time in and it didn't go unnoticed that I had no idea how to eat it. The owner cane over and helped me all the while we were laughing. Game changer.
Also tried the iskender and lentil soup.
All amazing and all fresh

Topped it off with fresh baclava and tea.

What a great start.

We've been coming here for last 3 years, but last night was awful and we will never come back again. Rude service, slow, charged us for all the food, except they never brought half of it. We had a party, so didn't pay attention on time. No hot tea or water. Rushed us to leave at 8: 15pm, literally taking forks and spoons out of our hands. We ordered 8 combo beef and lamb doner plates, got instead just beef doner plates.unbelievable how good they were 3 years ago and they became today. Very sad and disappointed

Amazing. İskender was as good as the ones we had in Istanbul. Our server Melike was graceful, and very polite. This was our first trip. I am sure we’ll be back for more.

Ordered from Doorash. I loved everything about it. Chicken doner plate is amazing. Very good texture and flavors. The salad dressing and mix was well prepared. On the delivery box, it was written 'Have a lovely day'. Not a common sight. Highly recommend.

I do not go again to a restaurant where food does not have great taste, no matter how hungry i am, or how cheap the restaurant is. So far the only items i found here to meet my criteria of taste and authentic taste are:

1. Lahmacun. Yes, it is tasty and has good ingredients and is fresh.
Though, I ask them to make it crispy (not soft). I do not think, in Türkiye, Lahmacun comes w green salad. At this place it comes w that, and i think that is good.

2. Baklava. Very tasty, so much so that i asked where you get it, they said directly from turkey. Yes, and the young waitress warms it just right. Wrong way to warm would be microwave, then it becomes soggy.

3. Turkish Tea and Ayran.

I order these items when ever i go. Some time ago i tried their kebab, donner, did not like, had zero taste. In future will try again to see if improvement. As it depends on cook. And w change of cook (usta) one may see better or worst meal.

Before writing i read many comments. In other comments mentioned about cook or owner that is rude. I can attest to that, i think he probably is uneducated from remote eastern part of Turkey, hence need some polishing.

Recent waitress is caring and polite. Restaurant is difficult and requires lots of hard work and still $ margins very are thin. Appropriate tip is recommended, and in a low volume restaurant as this, a good tip probably is never forgotten about.

Best lahmacun (Turkish pizza) in the area, decent Turkish kababs, and other typical Turkish fast food, prefer here over other good dining Turkish restaurants for wraps, etc.

Great food but none of the workers were wearing masks during this time of the pandemic. Stay away if you don't want to risk getting COVID.

DISHONESTY IS THE WORST QUALITY SOMEONE CAN HAVE. I needed WiFi for some work, the lady on the counter blatantly LIED to me saying their WIFI doesn’t work, while I could see it in her eyes that she was lying. If WiFi doesn’t work, your whole business will be stopped, including door dash and Uber eats. After I told her I wouldn’t be ordering food, as I needed WiFi, she said it’s probably working and I could try it. Just not acceptable. Now the food, I ordered a chicken kebab plate. The chicken was too dry, the salad had a funky smell. DO NOT RECOMMEND, MANY BETTER PLACES WITH BETTER AMBIENCE

We visited today for the first time and enjoyed it. The food was delicious and we got our order pretty quick. The lady at the counter was very nice. The only thing I didn't like was doner combo was a bit too oily and salty. Lahmacun was very good.

There is very rude man. The food is delicious and inside is very clean. If you want to be scolded when you are hungry, we can choose there.

Customer service is not Gud speak very rudely waiting tooo much I don’t like these place very aggressive person very much aggressive

I would give you 5 starts if you had a better customer service and if you were a little bit nicer to customers. We love the food here however everytime we come we have to wait for at least 15 min for someone to come out of the kitchen then when you come out it's the attitude you meet your customers with. I hope you will have someone only for the register this way you dont lose more customers. I will change my review to 5 stars when I see that the customers service improved.

Their Lahmacun is die for. I would say the best lahmacun place and closest to the authentic Turkish lahmacun. I say that as a Turkish.

I've also attended a Turkish gathering where different food were ordered the first one finished was Lahmacun from Garlic. That tells you how good their Lahmacun is.

Love this place. The food is delicious. We never eat in the actual restaurant, we usually just order lahmacun today. But always on point and super fresh.

So grateful to have a lahmacun place close by!

Food is very good. High quality food and the meat was very good and tender. The service is good too. Price seems to be just right too.

I won't ever go back after what I saw and experienced. The owner wasn't very nice to me. I felt like he had a condescending attitude towards me because I'm a woman. It took a very long time for him to acknowledge me and take my order, even though I was the only person in the restaurant. He said my wraps would be ready in 15 minutes. I came back 20 minutes later and they weren't ready. I saw him touching the phones and all kinds of other things, then he assembled the wraps, touching all the ingredients after having touched phones and all kinds of other things, without washing his hands. He doesn't seem to care at all about cleanliness. I can't ever go back.

The worst Turkish (mediterranean) food in bay area, Food tastes like Cardboard. No flavor, no taste. I was shocked when i saw them had Over 4 stars.

I am not sure for rest of reviews, but for lentil soup and lamb/beef gyro. Both of them tastes below average. They put a cabbage inside of wrap which is unusual and cheap, they use cheap wrapper that tastes raw flour, and there was no sauce inside of it. Sorry guys, but this is what you deserved.