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Tasting Notes
Rumeli Kardeşler Sofrası is at Vardar Caddesi 36 in the Gülbahçe quarter of Osmangazi and has been open since 1950.
Soups and home dishes
Soups are tripe and head, chicken stock and lentil. The home dishes include kuru fasulye with pastırma and sucuk or plain, chickpeas, mushroom, karnıyarık and dolma.
Meat and sides
The meat list has beef cuts, lamb tandır, shank, neck, beef entrecôte and shoulder ribs, with pilafs, yoghurt and cacık as sides. Desserts are listed as special and plain.
“Start with a soup, then choose the lamb tandır or the beef entrecôte and add kuru fasulye.”
LR Kitchen — field note