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Where would mankind be without wheat! A freshly baked bread’s small is more stimulant then many other things, as if challenging the world of flavors… Tırnaklı ekmek in Anadolu, getting social and named tırnaklı pide in big bad Istanbul, is … Continue reading
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Istanbul Jazz Festival has been going on and leaving us with music in our ears… So we stopped at Hocapasa Pide before Lars Danielsson concert…
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We were taken by the smell of the wood fire, and followed by my nose and hungry instincts, we end up at a local, family run pide restaurant at Milas. After all that rush at pazar and the morning kokoreç has left … Continue reading
How many times you passed by and not stopped at this hidden pideci? I’ll tell, countless!
Yusuf Bey, third generation shop owner is working rapidly to fulfil every request coming from the customers, slicing the pide, preparing packages, dealing with money. The customers are picky, all locals, some waiting beside Davud Usta, while he cracks eggs on top of kıymalı pide, gets to hear one of the old customer says, put another one on top, one is not enough! Davud Usta has been working there for almost 25 years, he keeps on smiling while opening a ball of dough tapping it with his hands, he tops it with the desired ingredients, then to the shovel and in the big brick oven.
Kıymalı pide is delicious, so is the kavurmalı pide. Munching on kıymalı pide you get the taste of onion, the meat and the spices, all in good balance, the dough is crunchy, a little moist in the middle, love at first bite! The kavurma they use leaves the dough its flavors. The salty meat and the melted animal fat is divine.
If you want to try something different, try the one with chicken. Yusuf Usta says, the customers love it which is his creation. He blends peppers, tomatoes, chicken breast with olive oil and spices. One of the faves.
A real pide experience to win your tummy, in a place where time seems to stop!
Address: Hocapaşa Sk. No: 19, Sirkeci, Istanbul
Phone: (212) 512 0990
Service Hours: Open everyday, 11:00am – around 8:00pm
So small, but hard to miss. You can take in the teasingly good smell of meat and the butter from meters away and head to the right direction.
The secret is the ingredients and the cooking technique for once. The prompt and courteous service is always a plus as we all know. All the ingredients are originally from Trabzon, one of the home towns of pide on the Black Sea coastal region. As a person who tasted lots of different pide in Trabzon, I must say this little place in Istanbul is by far the best.
They deliver home, but I prefer eating in the small restaurant while watching the skillful hands shape the dough and top it with my choosen ingredient and shovel it in the depths of the wood burning oven.
Address: Tütüncü Mehmet Efendi Cad. No:10 D.5, Göztepe, Istanbul
Phone: (216) 360 1678
Service Hours : 11:00 am- 09:00 pm (if not finished by then, you may find it till 9:30pm) / open everyday of the week