Malabadi Tammela

Malabadi may sound like your typical kebab pizzeria but I assure you it is nothing like it — it is a true Turkish restaurant.
I first gave three stars because I thought the menu was too expensive. Now I’ve changed it to five stars because Malabadi has become a favorite restaurant. The food is tasty and they’ve done an amazing job with the interior decoration of the place. It’s great for lunch and also very nice for dinner with friends.
Malabadi in Tammela is the second Malabadi to open in Tampere with the first one being in Hervanta. The prices in Tammela are a bit higher and the menu differs from Hervanta. While the Hervanta restaurant is more «homey» with darker colours used for decoration, Tammela restaurant is very very stylish and they’ve made the restaurant light and bright with big windows and light colours in decoration.
The lunch buffet is great with warm meats, pizza, vegetables and a large salad buffet with all kinds of very tasty salads with spices. The salad buffet is partially like a meze buffet with marinated olives & garlic, couscous salad etc but it is mixed with more traditional items like mushroom salad and water melon cubed. The price for the buffet was 10,50e which is kind of expensive in the area it is in but perhaps they’re making up for the big renovation costs or trying to be profiled as a more classy restaurant. I was happy to pay the price for the nice set of flavours and the seat on the patio in the sun but my husband complained ;)
I expect the place to be very very popular at lunch time and fairly popular in the evenings. I definitely will keep returning for the lunch buffet and a great chicken kebab in the evening.