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Tasting Notes
Site 2 Lokantası is at Yozgat Bulvarı 64B-11 in the Ovacık quarter of Keçiören. It has been open since 1982 and is closed on Mondays.
Soups and meat dishes
Soups are lentil, vegetable chicken and tandır soup. The special dishes are lamb tandır, boiled lamb and shank dishes, and the meat dishes are priced by cooked weight. Köfte dishes include Hatay tray kebab and Kilis tava, and the offal list has Arnavut-style liver and buttered stuffed intestine.
Vegetables, pastry and dessert
There are chickpeas, okra and green beans for vegetarians, stuffed vegetables, kadınbudu köfte, lahmacun and several pides. Desserts are milk kadayıf, supangle, incir uyutma, pumpkin dessert, kaymak quince and a melon-flavoured milk halva.
“Order the lamb tandır with a tandır soup, and add a pide to share.”
LR Kitchen — field note