This is not any website, throwing stars and welldone’s to all restaurants. We actually eat at the places, yes couple of times. And believe me, most of the times, we did not like what we eat, so we did write them here as well. But our main aim is not to malign the establishments, but to emphasize the real ones, the restaurants or chefs who do this business by heart and respect it.
Istanbul Food is against: Establishments selling a variety from pizza to tripe soup to pide. The local places cooking risotto rather then pilav, if you know what we mean… Restaurants serving an inconsistent variety of food at the same place at the same time.
Istanbul Food encourages and endorses: Real tastes should be eaten out of the hands of the real artisan.
Walking through this path we don’t have and will never have any sponsors, but never turned away tea or coffee offered us. You will read our observations based on our expertise, our own palate, our own pleasure, our own choices, our own money, our own precious time cut from our own work!
Establishments that match our purpose may not be found here simply because we could not possibly find them yet or we didn’t want to write about them.
That simple!
Istanbul Food believes food is an art, a serious business, must be handled by the professionals. Istanbul Food believes the emporiums, where you can find anything, create a cultural pollution and one way ticket to an abyss.
