Turkish Home Cooking
64 places under Turkish Home Cooking — all tried, all liked, all paid for ourselves.
9Köroğlu Karadeniz Mutfağı
Köroğlu Lokantası has been doing the same thing, consistently, for more than thirty years in Fatih — one of the addresses keeping Istanbul's old-schoo…
8Balat Sahil Restoran
On the waterfront in Balat, one of Istanbul's most characterful and timeless places to eat: Sahil Lokantası. 🐟🌊 Welcoming regulars since the 1980s, Ba…
10Pandeli Restaurant
In Eminönü's Spice Bazaar, a timeless address where history meets flavour: Pandeli. 💛 Founded in 1901 and still one of Istanbul's most deeply rooted d…
12Casa Mono
Casa Mono is a tapas restaurant serving Spanish food in New York. Tapas — a range of small hot and cold plates — is a Spanish classic. Casa Mono's suc…
8Ata Lokantası
Esnaf lokantas are one of the most important assets of Turkish food, and there are many good examples all over Turkey. Because they serve the same cus…
16Papaioannou Restaurant
Athens has become a favourite destination for Turkish travellers lately, and the interest has started to show up in both local and international press…
8Meshur Fetih Işkembecisi
Offal isn't something to eat just anywhere, but Fetih İşkembe in Balat has been serving customers reliably for over fifty years. The menu is entirely …
17Ayaspasa Russian Restaurant
Ayaspaşa Russian Restaurant has been welcoming guests in Taksim Gümüşsuyu since 1943. The historic texture takes you in as soon as you walk through th…
6Brooklyn Diner USA
The diner, the most classic American restaurant of all, is usually open 24 hours — breakfast in the morning, then a broad menu leaning on burgers and …
10Seoul Kitchen
At Bomontiada, the building that used to house Kilimanjaro has been turned into a Korean quarter. Seoul Kitchen, the Korean restaurant that opened her…
6Lale Lokantası
Lale Lokantası has been serving since 1970 in Hasköy, on the street opposite the Rahmi Koç Museum. For any business, staying open in Istanbul for more…
9Paraliaki Bebek
The room that served for years as Poseidon — and perhaps has the finest view in Bebek — is open again after all this time, under the Paraliaki name. A…
10İstanbul Modern
Restoran Modern, inside İstanbul Modern at Galataport, has built a high-level kitchen. A menu that reinterprets Turkish cooking with small touches, qu…
7Intiba Döner Kağıthane
There are plenty of döner restaurants in Turkey, but few good ones. İntiba is one we like. It has eight branches in Istanbul. The döner is a blend of …
10Tashkent City
Uzbek food resembles ours quite closely. Its two most famous dishes are Uzbek mantı and pilaf. The mantı is a little like Chinese dumplings, and beyon…
11Mezkla
Mezkla is a Mexican restaurant that opened recently in Akatlar. It's a place whose name we've been hearing a lot lately, for both atmosphere and flavo…
8Ortaköy Kuru Fasulyecisi
Ortaköy Kuru Fasulyecisi is a place we try to make our way to whenever we can. This little room on Ortaköy Dereboyu has been welcoming guests with an …
10Havan'dan by Beff Gourmet
Reşitpaşa has become one of Istanbul's favourite districts in recent years. Havan'dan, one of the area's pioneers, has been welcoming customers since …
10L' Asinello Ristorante
L'Asinello is a small chef's restaurant that has been running since 2011 in the Tuscan town of Castelnuovo Berardenga. It has crowned its high standar…
10Antica Macelleria Cecchini
Dario Cecchini has turned fifty years as a butcher into an accomplished meat restaurant, welcoming guests in the charming town of Panzano an hour sout…
9A Figueira Rubaiyat
A Figueira Rubaiyat must be the most famous restaurant in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city. Set in a garden where the branches of a hundred-year-old f…
7Şen Kardeşler Lokantası
That a restaurant has been open since 1965 tells you everything you need to know. Şen Kardeşler in Kağıthane is an esnaf lokanta that has been serving…
9Cecconi's
Cecconi's is an Italian restaurant operating within Soho House in Beyoğlu. Housed in the old American consulate building, it is — unlike Soho House it…
10Zekeriya Sofrasi,Datça
Staying the course with home cooking isn't easy. Zekeriya Sofrası in central Datça, serving since 1996, is in our view one of the best in Turkey. They…
10Cote Korean Steakhouse
Cote is the Michelin-starred Korean barbecue in New York. The point of Korean barbecue is that the meat you choose is cooked beside you. At other Kore…
9Άρτεμις Ψαροταβέρνα - Artemis Fishtavern
Artemis Tavern is a wonderful fish restaurant east of Athens, out beyond the airport. You reach it by turning off the main road onto a dirt track that…
10Il Sud Istanbul
Il Sud is a very accomplished Italian restaurant in the lively streets of Kadıköy. The standard of cooking in this small, likeable room is remarkably …
10Seraf Vadi Restoran
Seraf, which began its journey in Mahmutbey, continues at Vadi İstanbul in a strikingly decorated room. Led by chef Sinem Özler, Seraf serves the fami…
10Zaika of Kensington
Although Indian food is close to the Turkish palate, it isn't easy to find good representatives of it here. But in England, where the Indian populatio…
10Sade Beş Denizler
Sade Beş Denizler is one of those Nişantaşı places we've been hearing a lot about lately. It serves home-style dishes during the day, while the evenin…
7Tatbak
Tatbak means our childhood and our youth. Very few restaurants in Turkey have run uninterrupted for more than sixty years; Tatbak is one of them. Serv…
10TURK FATIH TUTAK
Türk, which Fatih Tutak opened in Bomonti after years of experience in the Far East, is one of the most talked-about restaurants in the country, holdi…
8Le Marché
Le Marché is a likeable French restaurant that opened about two months ago in the St Germain district of Paris. It came about when a husband and wife …
8შემომეჭამა - Shemomechama Old Tbilisi
Tbilisi is a very enjoyable city. Georgian cooking offers different versions of flavours we know well, along with a strong wine culture. Georgians cla…
10Mahir Lokantası
Mahir Lokantası in Osmanbey never falls off the list of Istanbul's best lahmacun. It absolutely deserves the praise on lahmacun, but remembering Mahir…
10Istanbul Airport Turkish Airlines CIP Lounge
Turkish Airlines' CIP lounge at Istanbul Airport is a gourmet paradise. The mantı may be the best in Istanbul, and the pides are properly crisp. Diffe…
5Yükseltan Bağevi
Yükseltan Bağevi is a very enjoyable spot on the Gulf of Saros, with quality wines, an eighteen-room hotel and a restaurant. It sits at a point lookin…
10Galatasaray Adası
Galatasaray Adası started serving food again this summer after a long break. Open only to Galatasaray club members and their guests, the island is in …
10Da Adolfo
Da Adolfo is a simple looking beachside restaurant in Positano. It is almost impossible to find a table though. Da Alfonso, which can be reached by a …
10Los Altos Istanbul
Los Altos is a Mexican restaurant on the terrace floor of a building right beside Galatasaray Lisesi. With a magnificent view, we drank the best marga…
9Estimar
Estimar is a great restaurant for seafood lovers, serving its clients in two locations in both Barcelona and Madrid. The restaurant in Barcelona is lo…
10Ferida Cadde
Ferida, which began life at Fişekhane with a menu leaning Bosnian, opened its Bağdat Caddesi branch two weeks ago. The new place on Noter Sokak is air…
5Tarihi Kemerburgaz Turşucusu
For anyone who loves pickles, Kemerburgaz is a paradise. Although we chose Tarihi Kemerburgaz Turşucusu, all the shops standing side by side there are…
10Cadde Nazende
We finally got the chance to visit Nazende, whose praises we'd been hearing for a long time. With the slogan 'the neighbourhood restaurant that loves …
6Bordel Istanbul
Bordel is a street-food spot in Asmalımescit from the team behind Mabou Pera and Glouton, where you can eat quickly and well. You order at the front, …
10Luna Rossa
Luna Rossa is an Italian restaurant opened three months ago by a team that spent seventeen years in Papermoon's kitchen. At Luna Rossa, right beside t…
10Lokanta Kru
Lokanta Kru and Kruvasan are the new-generation brands from Hünkar, one of Istanbul's classic names. The day starts with croissants in the morning and…
10Souper
Souper in Bomonti is an oasis for soup lovers. Alongside fifteen to twenty soups a day, they serve home-style dishes. Open 24/7, Souper is faultless o…
10Liman İstanbul
Galataport has brought a breath of fresh air to Istanbul with its magnificent location, if a rather Dubai-like mall concept. Among the many places to …
3Pinoli Italian Kitchen
Etiler is probably the leader in Turkey for Italian restaurants per square metre. In this intensely competitive area, Pinoli — opened by the All Sport…
7Hebun Çorba Seyrantepe
Open 24 hours in Seyrantepe, Hebun serves customers with dozens of soups every day. We gave full marks to the kış, black cabbage and atom soups we tri…
6Karaköy Lokantası
Karaköy Lokantası has moved from the building it occupied for years to a spot just along, beneath the Novotel. At lunch it serves a different menu eac…
9IL Cortile İstanbul
With a thousand years of history, Galata is a district with a different energy in Istanbul. On the ground floor and in the garden of the 17-room École…
6Sumakh
Sumakh is one of the right addresses for discovering Azerbaijani cooking in Baku. We started with düşbərə soup, went on to xəngəl (similar to mantı) a…
8Mahkeme Lokantası
Mahkeme Lokantası in Perşembe Pazarı has never let us down, with a menu that changes daily. On the lunch menu you can start with işkembe, paça or anot…
3S.ES Organisation
In this period when restaurants are closed in Turkey, QonaQ in Baku felt like medicine. We had a lovely evening with good fresh meze, delicious kebabs…
9Galata Kitchen
Galata Kitchen on Tatarbeyi Sokak offers healthy and delicious options with an esnaf lokanta approach. Among the wide range of olive-oil dishes and ma…
2Turkish Airlines Star Alliance Lounge - Istanbul Turkey
One of the finest mantı you can eat in Istanbul awaits you in the Turkish Airlines international lounge. Freshly hand-rolled, it is well above standar…
2Da Mario Etiler
Da Mario, Istanbul's classic Italian restaurant, has never let us down in the same spot since it opened in 1993.…
9Hayvore Beyoğlu
Hayvore, just off İstiklal Caddesi, has been serving Black Sea food for more than ten years and is a wonderful place. The only difficulty is that you …
4Karadeniz sofrası
Karadeniz Sofrası in Bağcılar won our hearts with its sarma.…
3Aşkana Çiğ Börek ve Mantı
A mantı classic. When a place has been open more than thirty years, and you're queuing for a table on a Friday evening, there isn't much left to say.…
4Balat Sahil Restoran
For a good meyhane evening at the weekend, Balat Sahil Lokantası is a lovely option. Details on the acıktım.be pages.…
Tarihi Cumhuriyet Lokantası @ Edremit
Friday might be the right day for döner. If you find yourself in Edremit, be sure to drop into Cumhuriyet Lokantası.…
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