When I was assigned to write a profile of Istanbul’s cocktail culture and its foremost figure, Alex Waldman, over a…
Photo by Şemsa Denizsel. There’s a lot of talk in Istanbul’s culinary circles lately about the “New Anatolian Cuisine”, an…
Earlier this week, Eater ran my Istanbul Heatmap, a collection of places that are new (or at least have something…
So many of İstanbul’s so-called fine dining establishments fall way short of expectations. In a sense, most of them aren’t…
Superlatives are highly subjective and, in most cases, proclaiming a place “the best” is arbitrary, or even ridiculous. But when…
Mantı, which are sometimes described as Turkish ravioli, are pinched dumplings filled with meat. They are a specialty of Kayseri,…
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