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Tasting Notes
İskender Efendi Konağı is inside Soğanlı Botanical Park, at İstanbul Caddesi 404 in the Soğanlı quarter of Osmangazi, Bursa.
İskender kebab
The restaurant is named after İskender Efendi, who is credited with creating İskender kebab in Bursa in 1867. The menu is built around the kebab itself, served as a full portion, a one-and-a-half portion or a child portion. A small museum about the dish is on the upper floor.
Dessert and drink
The one dessert is Mustafakemalpaşa cheese dessert, a syrupy cheese sweet named after a district of Bursa. The drinks list includes şıra, a traditional grape-must drink.
“Order the İskender kebab and finish with the Mustafakemalpaşa cheese dessert.”
LR Kitchen — field note