Alaf Kuruçeşme
Alaf remains one of our very favourite places in Istanbul.
Carrying nomadic Yörük cooking into the present, Alaf serves Anatolian flavours in a new reading.
Alaf offers us new surprises every visit; this time what impressed us most were the asparagus with hazelnut milk and a two-hour egg, the fresh peas, the garfish 'balık ekmek', the Konya yağ somunu and the house classic, İzmir kokoreç.
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