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Istanbul Cafe

(617) 232-1700

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  • 1414 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton, MA 02135
  • Restaurant website
  • Middle Eastern ,  Turkish
  • Istanbul Cafe

  • (617) 232-1700
  • Main
  • Catering
  • Appetizers
    • Dolma Plate

      Fine chopped 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

    • Sigara Borek (4)

      Turkey's popular borek stuffed with beyaz peynir, feta cheese, mixed with parsley and eggs

    • Patlican Salata

      Charcoal grilled eggplant mashed and tossed with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil

    • Taze Fasulye (Zeytin Yagli)

      Fresh green beans cooked in the best turkish tradition

    • Barbunya (Plaki)

      Pinto beans cooked with sauteed onions, carrots, green peppers, and spiced in our unique way

    • Tarator (Spinach)

      Chopped spinach mixed with walnuts and spiced with yogurt sauce

    • Platican Soslu

      Fried baby eggplant mixed and spiced with onion, pepper and tomato sauce

    • Tcli Kofte (2)

      With cracked wheat and sauteed with several kinds of nuts and spiced the traditional way, hot - but not so much in our cafe

    • Mercimek Kofte

      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

  • Salads
    • Coban Salad

      Fine chopped fresh pickled cucumbers, red onion, parsley, plum tomatoes and scallions with olive oil and lemon

    • Cacik

      Cacik, cucumber-garlic salad with olive oil

    • Yesil Salata

      Arugula, romaine lettuce, carrots with lemon dressing

    • Ceasar Salad

      Fresh romaine lettuce mixed with ceaser dressing, parmesan cheese and croutons

  • Soups
    • Plain Lentil Soup

    • Turkish Style Mushroom Soup

  • Entrees - Kebabs
    • Yaprak Doner Kebab

      Thin sliced lam meat marinated in our special sauce just long enough to absorb the flavor

    • Iskender Kebab

      Doner Kebab served over pita bread which has been cooked whit a little butter & topped with special sauce and yogurt

    • Tavuk Kebab

      Boneless chicken breast cubed and marinated in our special sauce long enough to taste wonderful

    • Kuzu Kebab

      Lean lamb cubed and marinated in our eastern turkey style sauce

    • Adana Kebab

      Ground beef mixed with vegetable juice and spices, 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 taste

    • Pirzola

      Served over rice pilaf

    • Karisik Kebab

      Combination of kofte, chicken, lamb and adanna kebab served together over rice pilaf

  • Pastas
    • Tavuk Soslu

      Cubed chicken breast sauteed with vegetables and served over linguine

    • Sebzeli

      Sauteed onions, peoppers and tomotes, spiced and served over linguine

    • Peynirli

      Linguine sauteed with feta cheese and butter

  • Fish Dinners
    • Levrek

      Grilled or broiled sea bass. Served with green salad

    • Salmon

      Grilled or broiled. Served with green salad

  • Sandwiches
    • Veggies

    • Hummus

    • Yaprak Dolma

      With yogurt sauce

    • Mercimek Kofte

      With yogurt sauce

    • Patlican Salata

    • Meat

    • Lamb

    • Chicken

    • Adana

      With yogurt sauce

    • Yaprak Doner

    • Izgara Kofte

  • Specialties
    • Hunkar Begendi (Choice of Chicken or Lamb)

      With baked chunks of lamb marinated in tomato sauce

    • Musakka

      A Turkish favorite summer dish, cubed baby eggplant, topped with sauteed onions, peppers, ground beef and cheese, baked in the oven

    • Etli Bamya

      Okra and chunks of lamb baked with fresh lemon, served over rice

    • Haslama (Chicken)

    • Alinazik

      Pureed eggplant served with copped and shaved lamb topped with a 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 in butter with onions, pepper and mushrooms and is usually spiced the turkish way

  • Fish Side Orders
    • Kalamar

      Calamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a mesculine salad

    • Hamsi

  • Sides Orders
    • Imam Bayildi (2)

      Baby eggplant stuffed with vegetables

    • Kalamar

      Calamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a lesculine salad

    • Mucver (4)

    • Manti (3)

      Fresh dough stuffed with ground beef cooked in water and topped with yogurt and tomato sauce

    • Arnavut Cigeri

      Pan fried cube cut calf's liver with onion and parsley salad

    • Beyaz Peynir

      Turkish feta cheese served with roasted red pepper and basil sauce

    • Lachmacun (3 Small)

      Eastern Turkey style ground beef and vegetable mix, spiced and cooked on a very thin dough in the oven

    • Karadeniz Pidesi

    • Peynirli

      Similar to cheddar cheese

    • Kiymali

      Ground Beef with sauteed onions

    • Sucuklu

      Turkish style sausage

    • Pastirmali

      Turkish style pastrami

    • Karisik

      Sucuk, kiyma, pastirma, cheese and eggs

  • Desserts
    • Baklava

    • Kunefe

    • Baked Rice Puddin

    • Kazandibi with Ice Cream

    • Irmik Helva

    • Creme Carame

    • Kemal Pasa

  • Drinks - Cold
    • Ayran

    • Ayran - Fruit Juice

    • Seftali - Peach

    • Kayisi - Apricot

    • Visne - Sour Cherry

    • Uluag Gazoz - Turkish white soda with Flavor

    • Madensuyu - Sparkling Water

    • Coke

    • Diet Coke

    • Ginger Ale

    • Ice Tea

    • Turkish Limonata

  • Drinks - Hot
    • Turkish Coffee

    • Rize Cayi (Turkish Tea)

    • Elma Cayi (Apple Tea)

    • Regular Tea or Coffee

  • Salatalar
    • Mixed Meculin Salad

    • Tomatos Salat with Cheese

    • Patates Salat (Acili)

    • Patates Salat (Mayonezli)

    • Patates Piyaz

    • Patates Yogurtlu

    • Rus Salatasi

    • Ispanak Yogurtlu

    • Kisir Salat

    • Acili Mantar Salat

    • Mantar Salat Mayonezli

    • Ahtapot Salat

    • Kuru Fasulye Piyaz

    • Nohut Piyaz

    • Barbunya Piyaz

    • Taze Fasulye Salatasi

    • Misir Salatasi

    • Kabak Ezme Salatasi

    • Kabak Yogurtlu Salat

    • Haydari

    • Makarna Salat (Yogurtlu Veya Acili)

  • Soups
    • Red Lentil

    • Domates

    • Sebze Kremali Vegetables

    • Tavuk Kremali - Chicken

    • Tavuk Sebzeli - Chicken, Vegetables

    • Tavuk Sheriyeli - Chicken

    • Ispanak Eksili - Spinach, White

    • Iskembe Corbasi

    • Kelle Paca

    • Mantar Kremaci - Mushroom

    • Mantar Salcali

      Mushroom with red sauce

    • Yayla Corbasi

      Yogurt, rice

    • Balik Cokbasi

      Fish soup

    • Yesil Mercimek

      Green peas

  • Entrees
    • Hasan Pasa Kofte

    • Eksili Kofte

    • Sebzeli Kofte

    • Icli Kofte

    • Firinda Tavuk

    • Firinda Kuzu

    • Tavuk Kofte

    • Ciflik Kebab

    • Orman Kebab

    • Bostan Kebabi (Tavuk, Sebze)

    • Karides Guvec

    • Balik Buglama

    • Balik Kizartma

    • Tas Kebabi

    • Begendili Kebab

    • Hunkar Begendi

    • Yogurtlu Kebab

    • Patlican Kebab

    • Karni Yarik

    • Tavuk Adana

  • Borekler
    • Seafood Borek

    • Pastirmali Borek

    • Ispanakli, Patatesli, Borek

    • Sebzeli Borek

    • Talap Borek

    • Nuska Borek

  • Pideler
    • Pastirmali

    • Sucuklu

    • Kasarli

    • Mantarli

    • Sebzeli

    • Kiymali

    • Kavurmali

    • Beyazpeynirli

    • Balikli

    • Mavti

    • Algkofte

  • Kebablar
    • Mantar Kebab (Purely Veya Begendili)

    • Baliku Mantar (Purely Veya Begendili)

    • Comlek Kebabi

    • Comlek Kebabi

    • Balikli Talaskebi

    • Elbasan Tava

    • Sebzeli Elbasan

    • Balikli Elbasan

    • Buftek Ogreten (Istanbul Cafe Kebab)

    • Tavuk Kavurma

    • Kuzli Kavurma

    • Coban Kavurma

    • Kuzu Sote

    • Tavuk Sote

    • Balik Sote

    • Tavuk Tandir

    • Kuzu Tandir

    • Dona Haslama

    • Tavuk Haslama

    • Kuzu Haslama

    • Kandin Budu Kofte

    • Izmir Kofte

    • Sagan Kofte

  • Sebzeli Yemekler
    Avalible with: sade, etli, peynirli, firinda
    • Taze Fasulye

    • Kuru Fasulye

    • Lahana Dolma (Salcali or Eksili)

    • Yaprak Dolma

    • Biber Dolma

    • Patlican Dolma

    • Domates Dolma

    • Ispanak

    • Beyaz Lahana

    • Karni Bahar

    • Enginar

    • Brokoli

    • Kabak

    • Mantar Yahni

    • Turlu

    • Prasa

  • Zeytinyaglilar
    • Fresh Green Beans

    • Kidney Bean

    • Okra

    • Zucchini

    • Spinach

    • Green Bell Or Long Peper

    • Tomato

    • Zucchini

    • Eggplant

    • White Cabige

  • Pilakiler
    Olive oil red sauce
    • Okra

    • Artichoke

    • Mushroom

    • Kidney Bean

    • White Beans

    • Broad Beans

    • Peas

  • Side Orders
    • Pilav (Boldo Rice)

      Sebzeli, domatesli, shriveli, etli, la pilav ciger, fistik, uzum

    • Bulgur

      Sehriyeli, sebzeli, mey hane bulgury acili

    • Sehriye Pilavi (Arpa, Tel Sehriye)

      Sobzeli veg, etli meat

    • Pelican Puresi

    • Patates Puresi

    • Ispanak Kavurma

    • Taze Fasulye Kavurma

    • Kara Lahana Kavurma

    • Kurufasulye Kavurma

    • Kariyik Sebze Kavurmasi

    • Bezelye Kavurma

    • Enginar Kavurma

    • Sebze Kizatma

      Patlican, patates, biber roper, kabak zucini, kornibahar yumurtali - egg, karipik kizartma

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