Borough Market – London
I can not write enough about my one and only Borough Market. The place. The only place I want to return every year. And I do. We choose a Friday…
Yusuf Usta’nın Yeri – Istanbul
This place became one of our safest places. It is like an escape from that fancy, so called kebab restaurants that try to make us forget the real taste of…
Çınaraltı Cafe – Istanbul
Early in the morning. So hungry. Just want to have champions’ breakfast. Çınaraltı is the place you want to be. The neighbourhood is calm, near the Bosphorus, the small streets,…
Dedecan Ocakbaşı – Şanlıurfa
Şanlıurfa is famous with her liver kebabs. All around the city you see a lot of on-the-street-kebab corners. Open 24 hours, so there is always smoke in the city. Dedecan…
Kebapçı Rıdo – Mardin
A swoosh sound in the air, coming from the special knife called zırk, sliding front and back, on the well worn, literally beaten board, making mince meat form the veal…
Anadolu Lokantası – Istanbul
This family owned restaurant is a big escape for the white collars from their busy work schedules. The menu changes daily and you can enjoy home style cooking, hot, delicious,…
7-8 Hasanpaşa Fırını – Istanbul
Raisin, orange, apple, banana cookies, baton salé, savory cookies with nigella seeds, bran, rye bread, sandwich breads, Easter bread, kinds of cakes displayed on the big oven trays on the…
Baylan Pastanesi – Istanbul
One of Istanbul’s touchstones, my one and only Baylan stands bold, against all the new trends of baking,reminding us that old school is always sound. Ask any Istanbul local, they…
Kandilli Suna’nın Yeri – Istanbul
Here and there, tables scattered around the cobble-stoned pavement, under the huge plane trees. If it is cold you enjoy the small cosy restaurant at the left side, if the…
Simit – Istanbul
This timeless, this traditional flavor is so simple yet so hard to forget… Crunchy, twisted – literally -, sesame covered, oven baked savory pastry is a street taste. Some of…
Çiya Sofrası – Istanbul
Imagine a place where you find all those beautiful regional, Anatolian ingredients cooked ingeniously that create explosions through your senses. The moment you lay your eyes on the small place…
Fauna – Istanbul
5 tables plus open kitchen plus soothing jazz music plus homemade pasta equals to this little gem in Kadıköy. For there you find the freshest ingredients forming tasteful plates of…
Karadeniz Pide Döner Salonu – Istanbul
Meat… Tasty, juicy,thin layers of lean meat stacked on each other, rotating on a vertical spit, cooking slowly. The meat is from lamb and beef. It is marinated before, so…