"The film, which takes its name from the Siyah Beyaz Bar and Art Gallery where it is set, is according to "Today's Zaman" reviewer Emine Yıldırım "an adamant ode to this bar", which "has been a landmark of high-end art and upper-crust intellectualism for longer than 20 years...and on a larger scale, the city it represents through its group of characters."