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Fine chopped fresh pickled cucumbers, red onion, parsley, plum tomatoes and scallions with olive oil and lemon. Very popular in Turkey
Cacik
As far as we know, Turks discovered yogurt. That's why we made lots of things from it. Cacik, cucumber-garlic salad with olive oil is also famous in America
Yesil Salata
Arugula, romaine lettuce, carrots with lemon dressing
Caesar Salad
Fresh romaine lettuce mixed with caesar dressing, parmesan cheese and croutons
Red lentil, cracked wheat and spices mixed with fresh onion and parsley, cooked in water and topped with yogurt sauce
Hummus
Mashed chickpeas spread with tahini
Istanbul Cafe's Sampler Plate
Your choice of any four items from the above
Barbunya (Plaki)
Pinto beans cooked with sauteed onions, carrots, green peppers, and spiced in our unique way
Tarator (Spinach)
Everyone loves spinach, we offer the best combination. Chopped spinach mixed with walnuts and spiced with yogurt sauce
Platican Soslu
This is just another way the Turks serve eggplant. Fried baby eggplant mixed and spiced with onion, pepper and tomato sauce
Tcli Kofti (2)
Eastern Turkey's sweetheart ground beef mixed to a dough with cracked wheat and sauteed with several kinds of nuts and spiced the traditional way (hot - but not so much in our cafe) and cooked in water
Taze Fasulye (Zeytin Yagli)
Fresh green beans cooked in the best Turkish tradition
Patlican Salata
Charcoal grilled eggplant mashed and tossed with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil
Sigara Borek (4)
Turkey's popular borek stuffed with beyaz peynir (feta cheese), mixed with parsley and eggs
Dolma Plate
Fine shopped onion and parsley cooked in olive oil with rice and several kinds of nuts; stuffed in your choice of either grape leaves, tomatoes, green pepper, or zucchini or a combination of all and cooked on a gentle fire to perfection
Eastern Turkey style ground beef and vegetable mix, spiced and cooked on a very thin dough in the oven
Beyaz Peynir
Turkish feta cheese served with roasted red pepper and basil sauce
Arnavut Cigeri
Pan fried cube cut calf's liver with onion and parsley salad
Manti (3)
Very popular Turkish village home cooking. Fresh dough stuffed with ground beef cooked in water and topped with yogurt and tomato sauce
Mucver (4)
If vitamin A is good for us, then zucchini has it all. We serve it as a zucchini fritter
Kalamar
Calamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a mesculine salad
Imam Bayildi (2)
Baby eggplant stuffed with vegetables. It is so good, a priest ate it for the first time and passed out and that's how it got the name
Karadeniz Pidesi
Described simply, it is Turkish style pizza, but it looks and tastes different than pizza. We think you'll find it very unique and tasty. It originally came from the Black Sea region. The best from from the ciry of Rize (Ordu'lular catlasin)
Peynirli
Similar to cheddar cheese
Kiymali
Gruond beef with sauteed onion
Sucuklu
Turkish style sausage
Pastirmali
Turkish style pastrami
Karisik
Sucuk, kiyma, pastirma, cheese and eggs, if you like
Choice of chicken or lamb. This in an example of Turkish home cooking, named after the sultan's taste which is pureed eggplant with baked chunks of lamb marinated in tomato sauce
Musakka
A Turkish favorite summer dish, cubed baby eggplant, topped with sauteed onions, pepeprs, ground beef and cheese, baked in the oven
Etli Bamya
Okra and chunks of lamb baked with fresh lemon, served over rice
Haslama (Chicken)
A very popular Turkish boiled dish with chicken
Alinazik
Pureed eggplant served with copped and shaved lamb topped with yogurt sauce
Tavuk Bonfile
Boneless chicken breast sliced and marinated in a special Turkish sauce and cooked on the grill. Served with coban salad and rice
Kavurma
Your choice of chicken or lamb sauteed n butter with onions, pepper and mushrooms anf is usually spiced the Turkish way. They cook this in the village for special guests
Thin sliced lamb meat marinated in our special sauce just long enough to absorb the flavor. Then we put it on a rotating shish and cook it against a flame. We shave it very thin and serve it over rice pilaf
Iskender Kebab
Doner kebab served over pita bread which has been cooked with a little butter & topped with special sauce and yogurt. Anyone who has visited Turkey asks for it when they come to our cafe
Tavuk Kebab
Boneless chicken breast cubed and marinated in our special sauce long enough to taste wonderful. We cook it over charcoal and serve it over rice pilaf
Kuzu Kebab
Lean lamb cubed and marinated in our Eastern Turkey style sauce. Cooked over charcoal and served over rice pilaf
Adana Kebab
The darling of kebab lovers. Available spiced or not spiced. Ground beef mixed with vegetable juice and spiced, attached to a special shish and cooked over charcoal. Served over rice pilaf
Izgara Kofte
Ground lamb seasoned with Turkish spices and chargrilled to your tast
Pirzola
Everybody knows lamb chops, but to have them the Turkish way is an adventure. Served over rice pilaf
Karisik Kebab
Combination of kofte, chicken, lamb and adana kebab served together over rice pilaf
Our country is surrounded by the sea, over the north, west and south. Fishing is part of our culture. That's why we cook fish a special way. Available for eat in only
Kalamar
Calamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a mesculine salad
Our country is surrounded by the sea, over the north, west and south. Fishing is part of our culture. That's why we cook fish a special way. Available for eat in only
Levrek
Grilled or broiled sea bass. Served with green salad
