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Daily Home-Style Soups
Red lentils are boiled fresh every morning with onion and carrot, then strained smooth. Served with lemon and red pepper flakes.
- Chicken Soup₺150.00
The chicken is simmered in its own broth; the broth is strained and combined with vegetables. It isn't loaded with flour, so it stays light.
- Ezogelin Soup₺150.00
Lentils and bulgur cook together, finished with a drizzle of mint oil. A well-spiced soup.
- Broccoli Soup₺150.00
Broccoli is blended before it overcooks and finished with cream. It goes out quickly so it keeps its light green color.
Vegetable Dishes
The beans soak overnight and go into the pot in the morning. They cook slowly in tomato sauce until soft but still whole. Eaten with pilaf.
- Nohut (Chickpea Stew)₺240.00
Chickpeas are soaked and boiled, then cooked in their own sauce.
- Spinach with Rice₺240.00
Fresh spinach is sautéed with onion in olive oil and bound with rice. Served with yogurt.
- Spinach with Egg₺260.00
The same spinach with egg cracked on top, cooked with the lid on.
- Türlü (Vegetable Stew)₺240.00
Seasonal vegetables cooked together. What goes in changes with the season.
- Zucchini in Tomato Sauce₺240.00
Fresh zucchini cooks in tomato sauce and stays light. Goes well with yogurt.
- Cauliflower in Tomato Sauce₺240.00
Cauliflower is boiled, then cooked in tomato sauce. Served with yogurt.
White cabbage cooks slowly with ground meat in tomato sauce. A filling winter dish.
- Leeks with Carrots₺240.00
Leeks and carrots cooked in the pot, served hot.
A rice filling made with currants and spices, stuffed without meat. Served cold.
The onion layers are separated one by one and wrapped around the filling. It takes patience, so it is not on every day.
Olive Oil Dishes
Grape leaves are rolled by hand and cooked with olive oil and lemon. Served once cooled, which is how the texture sets.
Artichokes cook in olive oil with peas and carrots. Plenty of lemon, eaten cold.
- Celery Root in Olive Oil₺320.00
Celery root cooks in olive oil with carrots and potatoes. Served with orange or lemon.
Eggplant, peppers and potatoes are fried separately, then combined with tomato sauce. Served with yogurt.
Fresh cranberry beans cook in olive oil with carrots and tomatoes, served once cooled.
- Green Beans in Olive Oil₺320.00
Green beans cook with olive oil and tomatoes. Eaten cold.
- Leeks in Olive Oil₺320.00
Leeks, carrots and rice cook in olive oil, served cold. The hot leek dish is a separate one.
- Vegetable Gratin₺320.00
Vegetables are baked with béchamel sauce and kaşar cheese until the top browns.
Side Dishes
Erişte noodles are tossed with walnuts and cheese. Filling on its own, too.
- Erişte (Turkish Noodles)₺140.00
Erişte noodles served with butter and kaşar cheese.
- Bulgur Pilaf with Vegetables₺120.00
Bulgur cooked with peppers, tomatoes and carrots.
- Rice Pilaf₺110.00
Baldo rice is toasted in butter and cooked so every grain stays separate.
- Bulgur Pilaf₺100.00
Toasted together with vermicelli and cooked with tomato paste. Served alongside the meat dishes.
- Vermicelli Pilaf₺100.00
Vermicelli pilaf toasted in butter.
- Pasta₺100.00
Plain pasta with butter and kaşar cheese.
Salads
Arugula with white cheese and walnuts. Served with lemon and olive oil.
Boiled carrots mixed with yogurt, tahini and walnuts. Also eaten as a meze.
- Celery Root Salad₺190.00
Boiled celery root served in a yogurt sauce, with a clear lemon flavor.
- Beet Salad₺190.00
Beets are boiled, chopped and mixed with olive oil and garlic. Served cold.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and onions, finely chopped.
- Seasonal Salad₺110.00
Made with the season's vegetables: lettuce, grated carrot and red cabbage, with lemon and olive oil.
- Cacık (Yogurt with Cucumber)₺110.00
Yogurt, cucumber, garlic and mint.
Chicken Dishes
- Chicken in Lemon Sauce₺340.00
Chicken pieces cook in a lemony sauce. The sour side of the menu, and a favorite in summer.
Chicken, mushrooms and peas are baked with béchamel sauce. It stays in the oven until the top browns.
- Chicken Sauté₺310.00
Diced chicken is sautéed with peppers and mushrooms. The sauce is kept light so the chicken's own flavor comes through.
- Curry Chicken Sauté₺310.00
The same sauté with curry and cream. Medium spiced, not hot.
The onions cook down until caramelized, and the cream goes in at the end. Goes well with pilaf.
- Baked Chicken Chops₺310.00
Bone-in chicken chops are seasoned and baked, then rest in their own juices so they don't dry out.
- Baked Chicken Legs₺310.00
Chicken legs bake in the oven until the skin browns.
- Baked Chicken Drumsticks₺310.00
Chicken drumsticks bake until golden outside. A practical plate you eat with your hands.
Meat Dishes
Diced beef bakes for hours with plenty of onions, until the meat pulls apart with a fork. The kitchen's longest-cooking dish.
Ground beef is spread on a tray, topped with onions and tomatoes, and baked. Served by the slice with bulgur pilaf.
- Tas Kebabı (Beef Stew)₺470.00
Diced beef cooks in the pot in its own juices. As the sauce thickens, it gets just right for dipping bread.
- Clay-Pot Eggplant with Meat₺420.00
Diced meat and eggplant cook together in a clay pot and are served in the same dish.
Handmade meatballs cooked on the grill, served with fire-roasted peppers and tomatoes.
- Swedish Meatballs₺380.00
Small meatballs cook in a creamy sauce and are served with mashed potatoes. One of the plates children ask for most.
Ground meat and rice are kneaded together, dipped in egg and fried. A meatball handed down from Ottoman cuisine.
Fresh peppers are stuffed with a rice and ground meat filling and cooked in tomato sauce. Served with yogurt.
The meatballs go into the oven with potatoes in tomato sauce. There is plenty of sauce for dipping bread.
Marble-sized meatballs cook in a sour sauce until tender. The lemon comes through clearly.
- Meat Lasagna with Béchamel₺350.00
Layers of ground meat filling and béchamel sauce, baked with kaşar cheese on top.
Whole eggplants are fried, filled with a ground meat mixture, topped with tomato and baked on a tray in tomato sauce. Served from the tray onto the plate and eaten with pilaf.
Potato slices and ground meat filling are layered and baked in tomato sauce.
- Eggplant Moussaka₺340.00
Eggplant and ground meat go into the oven in layers. Unlike Karnıyarık, the eggplant is sliced, not stuffed.
Cabbage leaves are rolled around a rice and ground meat filling and cooked in the pot. Served with yogurt.
Desserts
An oven-baked dessert made with both milk chocolate and dark chocolate.
- Baklava₺420.00
Pistachio baklava. We take orders by the kilo.
- Pistachio Burma Kadayıf₺420.00
Shredded kadayıf pastry is rolled around pistachios and soaks up its syrup.
- Walnut Burma Kadayıf₺350.00
The same kadayıf, made with walnuts.
The rice pudding is baked in its own dish until the top browns. No ready-made powder mix is used.
Soaked in syrup and topped with pistachios. Chilled before serving.
- Ağlayan Pasta (Crying Cake)₺170.00
A semolina cake soaked in caramel syrup. Its name comes from the drops that gather on its surface as it soaks up the syrup.
- Assorted Cakes₺170.00
Homemade cakes that come out during the day. The selection changes from day to day.
Drinks
- Bottled Drinks₺110.00
Carbonated drinks in glass bottles.
- Canned Drinks₺100.00
Cola, gazoz (clear soda) and fruit juices.
Whisked from yogurt and served frothy.
- Şalgam (Turnip Juice)₺80.00
Spicy or mild.
The same ayran in a small glass.
- Lemon Sparkling Water₺70.00
Served cold.
- Sparkling Water₺50.00
To go with your meal.
- Water₺20.00
500 ml bottle.
Rotating dishes
- Okra in Olive Oil₺320.00
- Peas with Ground Meat₺310.00
- Etli Türlü (Vegetable Stew with Meat)₺340.00
- Potato and Cheese Börek₺260.00
- Tepsi Mücver (Zucchini Bake)₺260.00
- Village Apricot Compote₺170.00
- Milk Pudding with Candied Pumpkin₺170.00
- Krem Şokola (Chocolate Pudding)₺170.00
- Ayran Aşı (Cold Yogurt Soup)₺150.00
- Etli Yaprak Sarma (Stuffed Grape Leaves with Meat)₺360.00
- Ground Meat and Cheese Crepes₺340.00
- Patlıcan Kebabı (Eggplant Kebab)₺410.00
- Baked Meatballs in Tomato Sauce₺350.00
- Dana Kavurma (Sautéed Beef)₺540.00
- Roasted Mixed Vegetables₺320.00
- Stuffed Dried Eggplants and Peppers₺360.00
- Black-Eyed Peas in Olive Oil₺320.00
- Baked Salmon₺430.00
- Steamed Horse Mackerel₺430.00
- Beğendili Köfte (Meatballs on Smoked Eggplant Purée)₺410.00
- Small Meatballs with Peas₺350.00
- Pistachio and Coconut Revani₺170.00
- Red Cabbage and Corn Salad₺110.00
- Watermelon₺150.00
- Melon₺150.00
- Meatballs with Onions₺410.00
- Beef Liver₺470.00
- Fried Zucchini₺240.00
- Fried Potatoes and Green Peppers₺240.00
- Pasta with Meat Sauce₺220.00
- Boiled Vegetables₺260.00
- Purslane in Olive Oil₺320.00
- Gaziantep-Style Chickpeas with Onions₺260.00
- Chicken Pilaf₺220.00
- Un Helvası (Flour Halva)₺170.00
- Orzo Salad in Olive Oil₺220.00
- Fava Beans in Olive Oil₺320.00
- Fried Vegetable Salad in Olive Oil₺320.00
- Clay-Baked Chicken with Béchamel₺340.00
- Chicken Sauté with Mushrooms₺310.00
- Clay-Pot Chickpeas with Ground Meat₺310.00
- Prenses Tatlısı (Princess Cake)₺170.00
- Pudding Cake with Coconut and Petit Beurre Biscuits₺170.00
- Mother's-Style Stuffed Grape Leaves₺320.00
- Banana Magnolia with Cream₺240.00
- Baked Meatballs with Vegetables in Tomato Sauce₺380.00
- Clay-Pot Meatballs with Béchamel₺380.00
- Eggplant and Meatball Bake with Garlic₺410.00
These dishes aren't fixed on the printed menu; the kitchen makes them on different days. Call to find out whether they're on the counter today.
