Brighton Restaurants » Istanbul Cafe Menu
Istanbul Cafe
Tel: (617) 232-1700
Address: 1414 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton MA
Cuisine: Middle Eastern,Turkish
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Appetizers
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Barbunya (plaki)Pinto beans cooked with sauteed onions, carrots, green peppers, and spiced in our unique way
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Dolma PlateFine 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
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HummusMashed chickpeas spread with tahini
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Istanbul Cafes Sampler PlateYour choice of any four items from the above
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Mercimek KofteRed lentil, cracked wheat and spices mixed with fresh onion and parsley, cooked in water and topped with yogurt sauce
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Patlican SalataCharcoal grilled eggplant mashed and tossed with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil
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Platican SosluThis is just another way the Turks serve eggplant. Fried baby eggplant mixed and spiced with onion, pepper and tomato sauce
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Sigara Borek (4)Turkeys popular borek stuffed with beyaz peynir (feta cheese), mixed with parsley and eggs
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Tarator (spinach)Everyone loves spinach, we offer the best combination. Chopped spinach mixed with walnuts and spiced with yogurt sauce
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Taze Fasulye (zeytin Yagli)Fresh green beans cooked in the best Turkish tradition
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Tcli Kofti (2)Eastern Turkeys 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
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Desserts - Tatlilar
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Baked Rice Pudding |
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Baklava |
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Creme Carame |
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Irmik Helva |
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Kazandibi With Ice Cream |
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Kemal Pasa |
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Kunefe |
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Drinks
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AromaAll natural fruit juice- seftali-peach, kayisi-apricot, visne-sour cherry
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AyranSalted plain yogurt drink
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Coke |
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Diet Coke |
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Elma Cayi (apple Tea) |
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Ginger Ale |
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Ice Tea |
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MadensuyuSparkling water
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Regular Tea Or Coffee |
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Rize Cayi (turkish Tea) |
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Turkish Coffee |
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Turkish Limonata |
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Uluag GazozTurkish white soda with flavor
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Entrees - Kebabs
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Adana KebabThe 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
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Iskender KebabDoner 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
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Izgara KofteGround lamb seasoned with Turkish spices and chargrilled to your tast
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Karisik KebabCombination of kofte, chicken, lamb and adana kebab served together over rice pilaf
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Kuzu KebabLean lamb cubed and marinated in our Eastern Turkey style sauce. Cooked over charcoal and served over rice pilaf
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PirzolaEverybody knows lamb chops, but to have them the Turkish way is an adventure. Served over rice pilaf
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Tavuk KebabBoneless 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
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Yaprak Doner KebabThin 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
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Fish Dinners
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 | ||
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LevrekGrilled or broiled sea bass. Served with green salad
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SalmonGrilled or broiled. Served with green salad
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Fish Side Orders
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 | ||
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HamsiVery unique fish from Karadeniz (Black Sea)
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KalamarCalamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a mesculine salad
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Makarnalar - Pastas
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PeynirliLinguine sauteed with feta cheese and butter
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SebzeliSauteed onions, peppers and tomatoes, spiced and served over linguine
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Tavuk SosluCubed chicken breast sauteed with vegetables and served over linguine
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Salads
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CacikAs far as we know, Turks discovered yogurt. Thats why we made lots of things from it. Cacik, cucumber-garlic salad with olive oil is also famous in America
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Caesar SaladFresh romaine lettuce mixed with caesar dressing, parmesan cheese and croutons
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Coban SaladFine chopped fresh pickled cucumbers, red onion, parsley, plum tomatoes and scallions with olive oil and lemon. Very popular in Turkey
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Yesil SalataArugula, romaine lettuce, carrots with lemon dressing
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Sandwiches - Durum
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AdanaComes with yogurt sauce on top
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Chicken |
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Hummus |
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Izgara Kofte |
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Lamb |
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Mercimek KofteComes with yogurt sauce on top
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Patlican Salata |
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Yaprak DolmaComes with yogurt sauce on top
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Yaprak Doner |
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Side Orders
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Arnavut CigeriPan fried cube cut calfs liver with onion and parsley salad
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Beyaz PeynirTurkish feta cheese served with roasted red pepper and basil sauce
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Imam Bayildi (2)Baby eggplant stuffed with vegetables. It is so good, a priest ate it for the first time and passed out and thats how it got the name
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KalamarCalamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a mesculine salad
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Karadeniz PidesiDescribed simply, it is Turkish style pizza, but it looks and tastes different than pizza. We think youll find it very unique and tasty. It originally came from the Black Sea region. The best from from the ciry of Rize (Ordulular catlasin)
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KarisikSucuk, kiyma, pastirma, cheese and eggs, if you like
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KiymaliGruond beef with sauteed onion
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Lachmacun (3 Small)Eastern Turkey style ground beef and vegetable mix, spiced and cooked on a very thin dough in the oven
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Manti (3)Very popular Turkish village home cooking. Fresh dough stuffed with ground beef cooked in water and topped with yogurt and tomato sauce
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Mucver (4)If vitamin A is good for us, then zucchini has it all. We serve it as a zucchini fritter
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PastirmaliTurkish style pastrami
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PeynirliSimilar to cheddar cheese
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SucukluTurkish style sausage
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Soups
Please ask for our daily special | ||
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Cream Of MushroomTurkish style mushroom soup
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LentilPlain lentil soup
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Specialties
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AlinazikPureed eggplant served with copped and shaved lamb topped with yogurt sauce
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Etli BamyaOkra and chunks of lamb baked with fresh lemon, served over rice
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Haslama (chicken)A very popular Turkish boiled dish with chicken
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Hunkar BegendiChoice of chicken or lamb. This in an example of Turkish home cooking, named after the sultans taste which is pureed eggplant with baked chunks of lamb marinated in tomato sauce
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KavurmaYour 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
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MusakkaA Turkish favorite summer dish, cubed baby eggplant, topped with sauteed onions, pepeprs, ground beef and cheese, baked in the oven
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Tavuk BonfileBoneless chicken breast sliced and marinated in a special Turkish sauce and cooked on the grill. Served with coban salad and rice
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