Name: Kahvaltı recensie door Gamze bij Nezih Kebap Yuvalama, Sarıyer/İstanbul, Turkije
Item: Kahvaltı
Rating: 4.3
Author: Gamze

Kahvaltı is the Turkish breakfast, and in a restaurant it means a table covered edge to edge in small plates: white cheese and aged kaşar, olives green and black, tomato and cucumber, honey with a slab of kaymak, jams, butter, sucuk fried with eggs or a pan of menemen, simit or fresh bread, and tea poured without pause from a double kettle. The word means before coffee, which places it as the meal that precedes the first cup of the day. It is eaten at home every morning in a smaller form, but the serpme kahvaltı, the spread, is a weekend institution, a two-hour sitting in a café in Van, on the Bosphorus or in any town with a view. Van, in the east, claims the national title and has a street of breakfast houses to defend it. The dish is the whole table, so it is judged as a whole.

A kitchen that takes it seriously builds the table from sources rather than from a wholesaler. Cheese is the first test: a brined white beyaz peynir with real salt and tang, a hard yellow kaşar with some age, and ideally a regional third such as the herbed otlu peynir of Van or a string cheese. Olives should be cured, not canned, and dressed with oil and thyme or chilli. Kaymak, the clotted cream of water buffalo or cow milk, is spooned next to honey still in the comb or at least unheated. The hot plates are made to order: sucuklu yumurta, slices of sucuk fried until the fat runs and eggs cracked into it; menemen; sigara böreği, fried cheese pastries; sometimes kavurma or a gözleme. Bread arrives warm and keeps arriving. Tea is black, brewed strong in the top of a çaydanlık and diluted to taste, served in tulip glasses that should never sit empty.

Score the table on its parts and its generosity. Mark up cheeses with character, honey and kaymak that are the real thing, eggs that arrive hot in the pan, bread that is fresh, tomatoes that taste of tomato, and tea that keeps coming without being asked. Mark down supermarket cheese cut into identical cubes, olives from a tin, jam in portion packs, margarine standing in for butter, cold or pre-fried eggs, a single basket of bread rationed to the table, and tea served in a pot that goes cold. Count the plates but weigh the quality: twenty mediocre dishes lose to twelve good ones. A kahvaltı that ends early because the table ran out of bread or tea has failed its basic purpose, which is to keep you there until lunch.

Kahvaltı

Türkiye

Nezih Kebap Yuvalama

It was geat and delicious for whole table of breakfast. Every piece was fresh and over the average! And Bosphoros view was spectacular.

Kahvaltı recensie door Gamze bij Nezih Kebap Yuvalama, Sarıyer/İstanbul, Turkije

Kahvalti

Nezih Kebap Yuvalama

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