Istanbul Cafe

Plain lentil soup

Turkish style mushroom soup

Fine chopped fresh pickled cucumbers, red onion, parsley, plum tomatoes and scallions with olive oil and lemon. Very popular in Turkey

As 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

Arugula, romaine lettuce, carrots with lemon dressing

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

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

Turkeys popular borek stuffed with beyaz peynir (feta cheese), mixed with parsley and eggs

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

Fresh green beans cooked in the best Turkish tradition

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

Everyone loves spinach, we offer the best combination. Chopped spinach mixed with walnuts and spiced with yogurt sauce

This is just another way the Turks serve eggplant. Fried baby eggplant mixed and spiced with onion, pepper and tomato sauce

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

Red lentil, cracked wheat and spices mixed with fresh onion and parsley, cooked in water and topped with yogurt sauce

Mashed chickpeas spread with tahini

Your choice of any four items from the above

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

Calamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a mesculine salad

If vitamin A is good for us, then zucchini has it all. We serve it as a zucchini fritter

Very popular Turkish village home cooking. Fresh dough stuffed with ground beef cooked in water and topped with yogurt and tomato sauce

Pan fried cube cut calfs liver with onion and parsley salad

Turkish feta cheese served with roasted red pepper and basil sauce

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

Described 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)

Similar to cheddar cheese

Gruond beef with sauteed onion

Turkish style sausage

Turkish style pastrami

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 sultans taste which is pureed eggplant with baked chunks of lamb marinated in tomato sauce

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

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

A very popular Turkish boiled dish with chicken

Pureed eggplant served with copped and shaved lamb topped with yogurt sauce

Boneless chicken breast sliced and marinated in a special Turkish sauce and cooked on the grill. Served with coban salad and rice

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

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

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

Lean lamb cubed and marinated in our Eastern Turkey style sauce. Cooked over charcoal and served over rice pilaf

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

Ground lamb seasoned with Turkish spices and chargrilled to your tast

Everybody knows lamb chops, but to have them the Turkish way is an adventure. Served over rice pilaf

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

Calamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a mesculine salad

Very unique fish from Karadeniz (Black Sea)

Grilled or broiled sea bass. Served with green salad

Grilled or broiled. Served with green salad

Salted plain yogurt drink

All natural fruit juice- seftali-peach, kayisi-apricot, visne-sour cherry

Turkish white soda with flavor

Sparkling water

Cubed chicken breast sauteed with vegetables and served over linguine

Sauteed onions, peppers and tomatoes, spiced and served over linguine

Linguine sauteed with feta cheese and butter

Comes with yogurt sauce on top

Comes with yogurt sauce on top

Comes with yogurt sauce on top