Mado Cafe & Restaurant

Posted by: sunnygoldcoast | 30 November 2011, 11.06pm

What can I say! We were served by pleasant staff and a manager who is very passionate about his restaurant and very helpful.

I went with my family and we shared several of the dishes.

The entree dips were absolutely divine and the turkish bread that came with it was better than the bread that I have actually tried in turkey! For mains, I had a mixture of the spinach and cheese pide (flat bread) and 'iskender'. They were both delicious and the flavours really reminded me of my trip to Turkey, much more authentic than many of the Turkish restaurants I have visited outside of Turkey. For desert, I tried some of the Turkish ice cream with baklava, which was just divine. Overall, I left feeling absolutely full to the brim and very happy with the meal, I will definitely be returning to try their several 'banquet' options. Thanks Mado! :)

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Posted by: Rachell | 10 December 2010, 5.42am

This restaurant came highly reccommended to me, and having finally been there. I now understand why! No detail too small to be considered! The staff were friendly and professional! The food was exquisite and served in a timely, lovely atmosphere, great price. Thanks Mado...I will definately be going back soon!

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Posted by: zapple | 20 July 2010, 5.56pm

I though that Mado was one of the most unique restaurant in Brisbane, with all the decorative and traditional artfatics hanging on the walls. The food is absolutely sensational and the way the garnish there dish's to make the meals look so devise and elegant. I would definitely recommend this restaurant to all of my friends and to many of my family members to dine there.

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Posted by: Nathaly | 29 November 2009, 4.34am

I was a first timer and found MADO resaturant through recently City Cat. The staff were exceptional and the food was truly divine. ...
MADO is one of my favourite restaurants in Brisbane. The service is always great and the food is fresh and beautifully prepared. Mado has a fantastic position at the South Bank Parklands and the design to make the most of it. ...Realy Best restaurant and set up...

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Posted by: cherryl | 25 March 2009, 8.48pm

Highly Recommended! Do yourself & your friends a favour & do something different. You will not be disappointed! The flavours of their meals are delightful & which all people will enjoy guaranteed. Also dont think there's a restaurant in Brisbane with a better atmosphere. Mado's interior decoration is stunning, warm & unique. It's like going overseas without leaving Brisbane. And...!! On Fri & Sat nights u get free entertainment - Belly Dancing Supreme!! See u there! :-)

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Posted by: Csili | 19 March 2009, 6pm

I celebrated Valentine's Day with my boyfriend at Mado. We knew that most restaurants in Brisbane were going to be, so we booked our table two days before.Because of the special occasion we tried some specialties.,For an entree we ordered fried haloumi cheese and for the main course the mixed grill platter. Both were delicious and unforgetable. At the end we had baklava with Turkish coffee and as a surprise we got two hearts made from chocolate.

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Posted by: ritageorge | 31 December 2008, 10.45am

All my workers and I went to celebrate our Christmas party at Mado. We had a lovely banquet, great service, lovely atmosphere and the banquet was at a great price. Thanks Mado, we will be back next year.

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Posted by: nooooo | 31 December 2008, 10.34am

I took my parents to Mado again, they absolutley loved it, always has great service, food and a beautiful atmosphere. At the end of the night I had no problems paying for everyone as all the meals at are very cheap prices. Wonderful way to dine.

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Posted by: melissa81 | 21 October 2008, 4.19pm

My boyfriend and I decided to dine in the Mado Restaurant Southbank last Saturday night. The decoration and atmosphere of this Turkish restaurant is outstanding. We had homemade Turkish dips and bread as a starter, lamb sish and Turkish pide as a main and some baklava and Turkish tea for dessert. The food was just great! There was a bellydancing performance as well, which was really good!

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Posted by: mirandaa | 2 October 2008, 9.06pm

i went there with my boy friend to celebrate our anniversery while we were walking we saw mado and decided to eat there. we know how kebabs taste but a real turkish food we wanted to try. we really enjoyed our pides the taste was delicious and it was really huge so we were full which was really good. i heard about the turkish cafe and we ordered two ot that it was also great and after with baklavas we ended our night we will be back mado thank you :) plus the service was great they understood what we wanted and showed us from the menu sometimes can be reaaly crowded and i think we must understand that because they try to make everything perfect and i appreciate that thank you again mado :)

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Posted by: Cloverleaf | 15 September 2007, 4.04pm

After intial excitement, we and our two friends were disappointed.

The service was okay. Not brilliant, but passable. But it was the food that was the biggest let down. Especially in regards to the cost. When we first arrived, the wait staff were reasonably prompt to serve us. We let them know that friends would be arriving soon. Once our friends arrived, we then we waited a considerable time before our order was taken. It was not a busy Saturday night.

We ordered the Anatolian banquet at $45/per head. But to call it a banquent is generous. The dips were great, but the only drawback was that there was too little bread to go with them. In order to get our value out of the dips, we had to order more bread (which we were then additionally charged!). Far more dip than bread. So most of the dips were wasted.

The next course were the entrees. They were nice, but again, nothing amazing at all. Our mains were the biggest disappointment. Just a few pieces of meat on a skewer and a few pieces of lettuce for the "salad". The salad was no more than a lettuce garnish. The meat with the shish was nicely done, but given the price, there was not much to eat. It was very ordinary. Dessert was pleasant. But overall, we were surprised when we had come to the end of the banquent to find that that was all we were getting. We were still hungry.

For what seemed like the chance for an exotic dining experience, it was rather run of the mill.

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Posted by: Bekka D | 30 July 2007, 4.35pm

Admittedly my four friends and I went to Mado last Saturday night with fairly high expectations, having walked past the restuarant in the lovely South Bank surrounds many a time. Unfortunately, we were extremely disappointed to find that despite the alluring atmosphere of the restaurant (the belly dancing was great!), it offered very little else. Although about 30% of the tables were empty, it still took 25 minutes after being seated to receive a menu and a tumbler of water. The wait staff were doing their best to remain pleasant but they were completely run off their feet, deliberately avoiding eye contact with pretty much every table to the point where it became a joke. We made 3 attempts and had to ask 3 different wait staff to get some water glasses to go with the tumbler of water that we finally got. It also took about an hour and a half to get our meals! One main came out a good 20 minutes before the others. One friend and I had ordered the same meal and were horrified to discover that we had just paid $24 for 8 lukewarm bite sized peices of charred, dried un-marinated meat, a palm full of chickpeas and a leaf of lettuce (no dressing) - literally. It appeared that ingredients were missing from the meal so they had just thrown in whatever was in stock. For that price we certainly expected to get a meal that was half decent. The wait staff informed us that they were not expecting it to be busy as there was dancing in the street, so they were a little short staffed and we had to "be patient". After our disappointing meal, we refused an offer of dessert and the waitress soon came out with free samples of their icecream and gelati as an apology for such poor service and meals. While this was a lovely gesture on her behalf and having worked in hospitality for 6 years myself I certainly did feel for the poor girl, it is simply unacceptable for a restaurant to think that 4 tiny bowls of icecream can possibly make up for an entire night of shocking service and poor food. If a prominent restaurant at South Bank cannot provide decent service and quality food on an uncrowded Saturday night, when can we expect good service?

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Posted by: Displeased | 25 June 2007, 12.34pm

We left feeling very disappointed. It was not a very busy night, but we had to wait at least an hour in between our entrees and mains. After first course was cleared, the host informed us that our mains were the next ones to come out. We waited and waited until another waiter asked us if we had received our mains yet, apologised, went to check and didn't return. Another waiter came over and asked the same question, checked and informed us that the chef was doing them. The host then again came over and asked if we still hadn't been served (it mustn't have been obvious...) and went to check and gave us the same response. We were then asked if we wanted to try one of the desserts while we waited??!!! Why this was a logical I don't know, we weren't about to order more food we had to wait for. We were brought two small pieces of Turkish delight, I suppose as an apology. While we waited for the 'next meals to come' at least ten other meals came out from the kitchen. Our mains finally arrived over an hour later. Seriously disappointing. The other infuriating part was that a couple came in and sat down and within 15 minutes, was served a feast! Breads, entrees, mains all at once - and while we were still eating the chef came out to chat with them - clearly friends of his = special treatment. Not on. There appeared to be no system or communication whatsoever between the staff and the kitchen and we weren't even offered anything to make it right. With a great Turkish restaurant on Little Stanley Street just down the road, we won't be returning or recommending Mado. A lesson in hospitality needed.

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Posted by: Trumples | 19 April 2007, 11.34am

A group of eight dined here last night. A quiet night allowed us to meander through the menu and take time choosing our mains. For entree we just all shared in servings of the gourmet Turkish bread which was delightful, tasty and left you wanting more. The mains we all had were tasty, well balanced with flavour and beautifully presented. The only comment of a negative side was the lamb dishes were a little lacking in lamb. The mixed grill was huge and almost ended up beating the guy that ordered it. Our surprise was two complimentary dishes from the chef for the group. The swordfish, for those who had it, was "amazingly tasty and not dry". Mado, we'll be back here, you were amazing and at $30 per head there were no grumbles from any of the group.

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