Sofra Restaurant and Bakery

Turkish Cuisine

Good Food | Good Times

(585) 544-0101

Our Menu

Quality Ingredients, Tasty Meals

At Sofra Restaurant and Bakery, we are committed to using only the highest quality ingredients to create delicious and mouthwatering meals for our esteemed guests.

Pides / Pitas

Pide is a popular Turkish dish that can be described as a type of flatbread or Turkish-style pizza. It is a versatile and delicious food that is enjoyed throughout Turkey and has many regional variations.

Entrees / Kebab

Kebabs are a popular and diverse category of meat dishes in Turkish cuisine. They are made with various types of meat, such as lamb, beef, chicken, or even fish, and are often marinated in flavorful spices before being grilled or roasted.

DESSERT

Turkish cuisine is renowned for its delectable desserts, which are beloved for their rich flavors, unique textures, and artistic presentation. Turkish desserts are a testament to the country's culinary heritage, blending influences from various cultures and incorporating a wide range of ingredients.

BEVERAGES

Turkish cuisine boasts a vibrant and diverse range of beverages that are thoughtfully crafted to complement the rich and flavorful dishes it offers. From traditional teas to unique fermented drinks, Turkish beverages have their own distinct character and cultural significance. One of the most prominent beverages in Turkish culture is çay, or Turkish tea.

Rochester's Most Loved!

Welcome

We Are Locally Owned and Operated

Prepare yourself for an exquisite culinary journey through the vibrant flavors of Turkey. We are delighted to have you join us in our restaurant, where our passion for Turkish cuisine comes alive.

Hours

Tuesday - Sunday| 12PM - 9 PM

Sofra fine catering services now available.

Good Food | Good Times

Authentic Turkish Cuisine!

Immerse yourself in the warm and inviting ambiance of our restaurant.

At Sofra Restaurant and Bakery we believe that food brings people together, and we take great pride in sharing the vibrant flavors and cultural traditions of Turkey with our guests. Join us and discover the true essence of Turkish cuisine, where every bite is a delightful exploration of flavors, textures, and aromas.

Sofra Restaurant

4.7

Based on 758 reviews

7 months ago

7 months ago

8 months ago

Very pleasant workers and the food is great.
I was nerve at first because it's food from a different culture, but Amazingly cooked/prepared.

Joshua Cook

8 months ago

Stop debating and just go here already. Worth it. Its a little cold inside but omg everyone is so nice and the food is delicious.

Kelly Tillman

8 months ago

Amazing meals. We’ll definitely become regulars. You can just tell the freshness to their ingredients and the flavor was so well balanced. 👏👏👏👏

Tech Translator

8 months ago

Great food. Good service. We like to support this family owned restaurant, they are warm and accommodating with good food. Love the lentil soup and adana

Divert Living

9 months ago

Our go to for all Turkish’s good, great staff and food

Sabahattin Catal

9 months ago

It is a pleasure to be able to find Turkish food everywhere.

Mahmut Gedemenli

9 months ago

Mustafa Kuzlak

10 months ago

Umut Gömceli

10 months ago

A rare find, Authentic Turkish food. They have it. Strongly recommend.

Gmail Tom Westheimer

10 months ago

Never had Turkish food before and it's excellent

11 months ago

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11 months ago

Everything was so delicious and fresh. Pideh, lahmajun, kabab and dessert was so delicious.

Aisha Koroma

11 months ago

The best Turkish food in Rochester especially the mixed pide. It was the best I have ever tried. The service was also amazing.

Iman Mohamed

11 months ago

Delicious food! Zero complaints! Warm atmosphere and kind customer service ❤️ can’t recommend this place enough

Karoline C

11 months ago

Cons: Hard to locate when looking for 'Sofra.' Better look for 'As Evi'. Same place. Seating is boothstyle with ample room to sit. The tables are fastened to the wall and I had to sit on the edge of the bench to reach my plate. The table was not clean. While the hostess noticed, she did not wipe it down. Given, I could have asked for a wipe down or simply sit elsewhere.
Pros: Ample parking. Friendly staff. I was looking for Turkish food and Turkish coffee. The ingredients were fresh...all of them. Artfully decorated on the plates. Absolutely divine taste. The chicken kabobs were perfection. The Turkish coffee was excellent. Prices are reasonable.

Please be aware that menu items are offered on a daily rotation of beef, then chicken basis. Works for me.

Have I found my go to Turkish place? Not sure. Will I return for more food and coffee? Absolutely!

Jeffrey Jacques

1 year ago

Aş Evi is a place we will always go for the most AUTHENTIC and DELICIOUS Turkish dishes in the Rochester area. The family who runs Aş Evi treats kind, grateful customers like family.

Smart Logistics

1 year ago

jafer yasar

1 year ago

Hassan Sardar

1 year ago

Sofa restaurant

Zekrullah Ahmady

1 year ago

They serve different types of the great foods.

Jackson Lewis

1 year ago

Kayla Stolt

1 year ago

I really like this place- always delicious and fresh Turkish/Mediterranean food, friendly service!

Immortal Lemon

1 year ago

I don’t normally like fruity treats but that raspberry cake was decedent beyond anything I imagined.

Mustafa Yilmaz

1 year ago

Nali Ali

1 year ago

Aysel Akbas Yeniyildiz

1 year ago

Michael Spence

1 year ago

Great food, nice family owned/operated small business. Quality first experience worthy of this unsolicited review.

Erica Pino

1 year ago

The food was excellent! Service was friendly.

Allison S

1 year ago

In house made everything. Baked goods yum. Real Baklava! Recommend the juice drinks!

Berfin Sel

1 year ago

Great food and atmosphere really loved the detail and decor of the restaurant. The owner and his family were very warm and welcoming will definitely be back. Ramadan Mubarak!

Suheyl Nizamoglu

1 year ago

It’s a beautiful spot you can go. There is Kanun music 🎶 and there are lots of items from Turkish culture. The best thing there was a small mesjid inside the restaurant.
I love it.

Hawdang Abdullah

2 years ago

Loved the food. The chef gave us complementary appetizers.
This truly is a Rochester GEM.
Will definitely visit again.

Dr. T

2 years ago

This is a small Turkish place tucked inside a strip of other businesses. My Chicken kabobs had really good flavor and they were cooked perfectly. However the portions were very small, not just on the chicken but on the naan bread as well. It was a very heavy rice plate with some solid vegetables. I really liked the tomatoes, but the onions were lacking flavor. The pizza appetizer was my favorite part of the meal and it was perfect. Great flavors, and wonderful spices. Yet at $16 it is very expensive and not very filling. Overall, the food tasted pretty good and I would recommend trying all the different halal foods. But the hefty price and long wait times for the food brings down the rating. The place could use a bit more designs and decorations around, but otherwise it was a good experience.

Marc Brune

2 years ago

Amazfood and pretty good sized portions

Samira Alkarawi

2 years ago

Very good service thanks abere for your service

Clue Stocks

2 years ago

The chicken is supposed to be breast meat, but they consistently use legs, which is the cheapest part of the chicken.

njythrde

2 years ago

Best food and service! Love these guys, menu is great, tables are clean, staff always friendly and smiling! Pricing reasonable considering its specialty foods.

Seyfi Abdullayev

2 years ago

Eset Islami

2 years ago

Excellent service excellent thought excellent atmosphere. You can find it better.

Beyza Aktar

2 years ago

Eric Phillips

2 years ago

We loved this restaurant! Our server recommended several things and we shared them all family style. We felt like we were being welcomed into someone’s home and everything was so delicious! Can’t wait to go back.

Ben Mowry

2 years ago

The food at As-Evi was enjoyable, but the service was disappointing. We decided to try this place because of the good reviews, but it definitely didn’t live up to them. Despite being the only customers in the restaurant, we waited an unreasonably long time for our order to be taken. After finally calling the waitress over, we kept waiting for our drinks and eventually had to get up and grab them ourselves from the cooler.

When it came time to pay, we noticed additional charges on the bill for using a credit card, which had never been disclosed upfront. I usually never write reviews, but the lack of transparency here rubbed me the wrong way. This is not how we believe a business should operate. Transparent pricing and honest communication are essential, especially with a bill over $100. This was our first and last time dining here, as we left feeling disappointed and misled.

Soner Aras

2 years ago

Yakup Yıldız

2 years ago

You must eat here if you are fan of Turkish cuisine. Lahmacun and pide were very delicious.

Elnur Mirzabayli

2 years ago

Sammy Pasha

2 years ago

Josh Robinson

2 years ago

Hands down the best food I've had in all of Rochester. Trust me I've had a lot. This place I had to go outa the way to let them know and you guys know that they have some DELICIOUS Food! and the service was the best.

Levent Levent

2 years ago

My Favorite Halal Place in Rochester, NY
Highly recommended..
Family owned & Very Friendly & My Brothers Place…
🙋🏻‍♂️🧿❤️🤲

Mohammad Aldhwaihi

2 years ago

Suzanne Moore

2 years ago

I was excited for the Iskander Doner dinner option, but was told that is only available on the weekends. Opted for other items on the menu and were extremely disappointed. I used to live in Turkey and this is by far the worst Turkish food I have ever had and their prices are exorbitant for what you get.

Nancy Ahmad

2 years ago

Fouad Maaz

2 years ago

Priceless experience

Enfal Namver

2 years ago

Bridget Beaver

2 years ago

Hamed Safa

2 years ago

The best place you can try milk cake and you will never be disappointed

Matthew Standland

2 years ago

This was a lovely place for family dinner. We really enjoyed everything from appetizer to main to dessert.

Matthew Browning

2 years ago

Mazaher Dharamsi

2 years ago

Zuhal K

2 years ago

We were in Rochester and looking for halal options and we stumbled upon Evi Turkish cuisine right away as we entered we were greeted with the sweetest servers.
Appetizers: hummus and baba ganoush (5 stars)
Pide ground beef and pide doner (5 stars) it was absolutely delicious
Mains we got: two mixed grill plates and one chicken plate that came with rice and salad and lots of meat. We all devoured it because honestly the food was amazing.
Dessert we got baklava and this awesome caramel cake (usually I am not a big fan of caramel) but this cake was so moist and so dense we all ate it even the kids loved it.

We cannot wait to visit again when we are in Rochester NY

Thank you for an amazing service on Fri June 7th at around 8pm

We are very grateful

Matt H.

2 years ago

Simply put - fantastic food. Freshly made and perfectly seasoned, every component is tasty on its own without being overbearing. Whether you like chicken, beef or lamb you will find something delicious here. Vegans have some amazing choices here as well including the fresh hummus and lentil soup.

Haley S

2 years ago

I’m so happy I discovered this place. The food was 10/10 for freshness and taste. The restaurant was very clean and the service was great.

Randy Barrett

3 years ago

This restaurant is tucked away in the middle of a very basic plaza in West Irondequoit however it is a place you will want to try if enjoy a real Mediterranean restaurant. This where you can enjoy authentic Turkish food, staff and atmosphere. The server was very attentive and the food was great.

Lamar Burrows

3 years ago

First off I was trying this location because I want to give all types of food a try. This location we average at best. The service was like a 2.5 but I don't have that option. The young lady walked passed me 4 time ans never said a word to me. Finally a young man came from the back to assist me. I asked for recommendation and then I ordered. I was disappointed in the flavor or the meat. The tomato sauce was pretty good and it also had a bread like gyro to it which tasted pretty good. Over all I give this location a 3 out of 5. I might try it again just to see of the dish was the problem or if it's the cook.

Betsy

3 years ago

Don’t be dismayed by the simplicity of the front of this amazing restaurant. You’re going to be treated to excellent Mediterranean food and friendly family service. Everything we ordered was very fresh and SO-O delicious! I’ve also never had pita bread the way this was baked, not thin, but more like a bread and outrageously good. And with the hummus? Amazing. The menu offers many choices and we loved the kabobs, the rice was perfect as was the salad. I could eat here every day! 5 stars plus!

Fadi salam

4 years ago

One of the best Turkish food we tried so far in New York area. Will definitely going back again.

A lot of things were not available because of the Ramadan so had to go for some other options but still it was such a great experience. It was a kind of hybrid restaurant where if you want any drinks you walk to the counter and get one and some time they bring it too if you got lucky 😜

Jokes apart food was highly fresh and taste. Usually we feel heavy ness after eating too much but with them not at all.

Service was relatively quicker than other similar restaurants and much politer, I heard they had great tea but could taste it because of Ramadan.

Will definitely going back and recommendation is Adan chicken combination of beef kabob with rice lemon, onion, lettuce and some bread. So can’t beat that. Have fun 🤩

Sofra Restaurant and Bakery

Turkish Cuisine

Good Food | Good Times

(585) 544-0101

Our Menu

Quality Ingredients, Tasty Meals

Pides / Pitas

Entrees / Kebab

DESSERT

BEVERAGES

Rochester's Most Loved!

Welcome

We Are Locally Owned and Operated

Hours

Sofra fine catering services now available.

Good Food | Good Times

Authentic Turkish Cuisine!

Immerse yourself in the warm and inviting ambiance of our restaurant.

Happy Customers!