Delivery food should not be this good

Linguini aganta. Pasta with calamari, shrimp, octopus, and peppers, lightly dressed in a pesto sauce. Ample amounts of warm, fresh bread rolls on the side. Delivered to my door, and so good that I ate it straight out of the aluminum container without even thinking about anything as time-consuming as getting a bowl from the kitchen.

If ever you’re in Antalya and looking for a reasonably-priced place to get something other than Turkish food, I highly recommend Redi’s. It’s one of a handful of restaurants in Antalya that do this sort of generic faux-Euro fare really well. Just don’t try to order from their web site, because I found out the hard way that the form isn’t actually connected to anything right now. After a suspiciously long wait I called to check on my order, only to learn that they hadn’t received it. Nonetheless, the man who answered the phone was very apologetic, spoke perfect English (bonus— I didn’t expect that at all), and got my meal out to me in record time once he understood that I was hungry and waiting.

Pretty much as soon as I took the first bite, all was forgiven with the web mix-up. It was some of the best pasta I’ve had in Turkey, and 11 million is a ridiculously good price for any seafood dish, especially at this high standard. In the future, though, I’ll know just to phone them up to begin with, and save the trouble of wondering whether my web order went through.