After 11 months of our grand tour and ten foodie walks in London, Perpignan, Paris, Venice, Tokyo, New York, Mexico City, Cape Town, Istanbul, and now Budapest, we’ve concluded that a market tour with a local food expert should be the very first thing you do when you arrive in a place, especially if you’re … Read more
Eating out in Istanbul is a real delight, with some of the most delicious food you’ll find at this fascinating crossroads between Europe and the Middle East. Expect everything from inventive and elegant Modern Turkish fine dining restaurants, such as Mikla, to buzzy breakfast cafes, neon-lit pide salons, and lively local meyhanes. Istanbul may not have … Read more
This scrambled eggs with sucuk sausage recipe makes creamy scrambled eggs with smoky eggplant and bell peppers, and it’s the the Istanbul edition of my Weekend Eggs recipes series of breakfast dishes around the world. It’s not a traditional Turkish breakfast dish, but it’s a Turkish-inspired breakfast eggs breakfast. In my Istanbul edition of The … Read more
Our spicy Turkish lamb chops with bulgur recipe makes juicy lamb chops marinated in spices and grilled. I serve the chops with bulgur, which I’ve flavoured with stock and a little of the spice mix used to flavour the lamb, and smoky eggplant and bell peppers, yoghurt, and fresh continental parsley. This spicy Turkish lamb … Read more
Spices, pickles, snacks and sweets were some of the delights we sampled on an Istanbul market tour with a local expert, a Turkish culinary writer. No matter how well you know a destination, there’s always something to be gained by experiencing that place with locals – which is how we came to do an Istanbul … Read more