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Tasting Notes
Cemilusta Akçaabat Köftecisi is at Zühal Sokak 22 in the Altayçeşme quarter of Maltepe, Istanbul.
Köfte and burgers
The köfte list has Akçaabat köfte, köfte with kaşar and köfte with vegetables, each as six köfte of 200 g in all. Akçaabat piyaz is the usual starter. The house BurgerC comes in five versions, and there are köfte, sucuk and chicken sandwiches.
Breakfast, grills and dessert
Breakfast includes a serpme spread, menemen, eggs with sucuk, kuymak and kaygana, a Black Sea dish of fried eggs. The grill list has antrikot, kangal sucuk and chicken, and desserts are Cemilusta baklava and sütlaç.
“Order the Akçaabat köfte with Akçaabat piyaz, and try the kuymak at breakfast.”
LR Kitchen — field note