NEYZADE: Turkish Table Diversity
Nestled between the tram line and the walls of Topkapi palace, Neyzade works a small bit of Big City magic; utilizing a prime real estate...
ŞANLI URFA KEBAP SALONU: Respect The Kebap
The famous town of Urfa lies in the Southeastern part of Turkey, not far from the Syrian border. One of the most popular kebaps is...
HAFIZ MUSTAFA: Your Dentist Needs To Make His Boat Payment
A post describing every delectable Turkish dessert would be long as a book and simply a redundancy of several other well written articles already published...
MEŞHUR TAHTAKALE PILAVCISI: Wooden Rice Castle
With 30 years experience at the rice trade, Chef Ramazan knows what he is doing. Following the tried and trued adage, “do one thing, do...
What Is? Tavuk Sultan Sarma
Cuisine was extraordinarily important in the Ottoman Empire. The Topkapı Palace kitchens, called Matbah-ı Hümayun or Matbah-ıAmire, had hundreds of cooks preparing good daily meals...
TAN TAŞ FIRIN
Tan pide may lack the ethereal glow of a mountain sunrise, but it does have a stone oven and and pide, which makes the name...
DÖSİM: Carpets and Stuff
This blog is, of course, mainly about eating and drinking in Sirkeci, but sometimes you need to take a between meal break, and maybe do...
CAFE MESE: And A Messy Shirt
The newest addition to the diverse culinary choices of Sirkeci, Istanbul, Cafe Mese is an elegantly designed and sparkling fresh little restaurant and coffee shop...