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Tasting Notes
Dönerci Hamdi Usta is at Denizciler Sokağı 7 in the Kemankeş Karamustafa Paşa quarter of Karaköy, close to Galataport. Its döner is cooked over a wood fire.
Döner and the Hamdi specials
Döner is served plain, over rice or as the SSK wrap in 100 and 150 g portions. The Hamdi specials make the same döner into İskender, çökertme, beyti sarma and the Hamdi Burger.
Soups, lahmacun and desserts
Soups are lentil, ezogelin, chicken, beyran and kelle paça. There is spicy or mild Antep and fındık lahmacun, and döner pide, and desserts include baked rice pudding, künefe and kaymaklı ekmek kadayıfı.
“Order the döner İskender or the çökertme, and add a bowl of beyran or lentil soup.”
LR Kitchen — field note