Tasting Notes
Tarihi Taş Fırın Gürsel Kavan is at Abdal Caddesi 39/A in the Tuzpazarı quarter of Osmangazi, Bursa.
Rolls, simit and pastry
Tahanlı, a tahini-filled roll, comes in mini, regular and double sizes, next to walnut lokum. There is plain simit and buttered simit, börek with or without spinach, and poğaça with kaşar and other fillings.
Stone-oven bread and sweets
The stone oven makes kır pidesi, pizza and cantık. Sweets include cookies with apple or raisins, İzmir bombası, punç and small cakes.
“Order a tahanlı and a buttered simit, and take a walnut lokum to go.”
LR Kitchen — field note