Istanbul
Home-style restaurants
Traditional lokantas serving changing daily dishes, stews and home-style cooking, often at lunchtime.
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AlKaşık Lokantası
White bean stew • Slow-roasted lamb
Osmanlı Mutfağı Beyazıt
Lamb head soup with garlic • Baked aubergine with minced meat and tomato
Fül Fül Çorba
Tarihi İmren Lokantası
Braised lamb stew • White bean stew
Mahir Lokantası
Tiny rice and meat dumplings in yoghurt soup • Slow-cooked lamb shank
Buyruk Esnaf Lokantası Sirkeci
White bean stew • Rice pilaf
Hacı Abdullah Lokantası
Slow-roasted lamb • Lamb stew on smoky aubergine purée with cheese
Tadında Türk Mutfağı
Meatballs cooked in marrow broth
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AlKaşık Lokantası
A self-service lokanta on Mimar Mehmetağa Caddesi in Sultanahmet, where hot dishes are chosen from the counter. The menu includes soups, stews, chicken, kebabs, rice, breakfast and desserts; it is open from 8 a.m. until midnight.
Osmanlı Mutfağı Beyazıt
A counter restaurant on Gedikpaşa Caddesi in Beyazıt serving soups, stewed dishes, pide, pizza and kebabs. Everything is listed on one board.
Fül Fül Çorba
A home-style restaurant in Hasanpaşa, Kadıköy, Istanbul. The price list covers soups.
Tarihi İmren Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Yeni Mahalle, Küçükçekmece, Istanbul. The price list covers soup, meat dishes and desserts.
Mahir Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Cumhuriyet, Şişli, Istanbul. Open since 2015. The price list covers hot starters, main dishes and soups.
Buyruk Esnaf Lokantası Sirkeci
A home-style restaurant in Hoca Paşa, Hoca Paşa Sk. D: Fatih, Istanbul. Open since 1980. The price list covers dishes, meat dishes and chicken.
Hacı Abdullah Lokantası
A restaurant on Atıf Yılmaz Caddesi in Beyoğlu, a short walk from İstiklal Avenue, that dates itself to 1888. It serves olive-oil vegetables, slow-cooked lamb, grills and its own milk puddings, compotes and desserts.
Tadında Türk Mutfağı
A home-style restaurant in Adnan Kahveci, Beylikdüzü, Istanbul. The price list covers main dishes, soups and breakfast.
Paçacı Mahmut Usta
A home-style restaurant in İskenderpaşa, Fatih, Istanbul. Open since 1969. The price list covers soups, meat dishes and meatballs.
Lale Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Piri Paşa, Beyoğlu, Istanbul. Open since 1970. The price list covers meat dishes, döner and meat-free dishes.
Kardeşler Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Mithatpaşa, Eyüpsultan, Istanbul. Open since 1974. The price list covers meat dishes and vegetable dishes.
Muşmuloğulları Karadeniz Mutfağı
A home-style restaurant in Merkez, Çekmeköy, Istanbul. Open since 1999. The price list covers breakfast, pide and soups.
Ahval Restoran Arnavutköy
A home-style restaurant in Hicret, Istanbul. Address, hours, directions and dishes to order are on this page.
Aşikar İstanbul Lokantası Ümraniye
A home-style restaurant in Tantavi, Istanbul. The price list covers stews, meat döner and mezes.
Ağababa Döner & Yemek Restaurant
A döner and home-cooking restaurant on Natoyolu Caddesi in the Dudullu industrial zone, Ümraniye. The menu has döner, İskender, grills, olive-oil dishes, a salad bar and a serpme breakfast.
Titiz Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Şifa, Tuzla, Istanbul. The price list covers meat döner, main dishes and starters.
Hayvore Karadeniz Mutfağı
A home-style restaurant in Kuloğlu, Beyoğlu, Istanbul. Open since 2009. The price list covers main dishes, pide and fish.
Balkan Lokantası Beşiktaş
A home-style restaurant in Cihannüma, Istanbul. The price list covers soups, dishes and olive-oil dishes.
Kazım Usta Türk Mutfağı & Döner
A home-style restaurant in Tepeören, Tuzla, Istanbul. Open since 2005. The price list covers soups, dishes and oven dishes.
Hünkar Nişantaşı
A home-style restaurant in Harbiye, Şişli, Istanbul. Open since 1950. The price list covers fish, soups and salads.
Lades Menemen
A small breakfast place on Sadri Alışık Sokak, just off İstiklal Avenue in Beyoğlu, serving menemen since 1969. Nine kinds of menemen and eggs, chicken dishes, soups and milk puddings are served from 7 in the morning until 9 at night.
Hakkıoğlu Esnaf Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Mecidiyeköy, Şişli, Istanbul. The price list covers meat dishes, dishes and olive-oil dishes.
Ağa Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Akçaburgaz, Esenyurt, Istanbul. Open since 1920. The price list covers main dishes, olive-oil dishes and soups.
Damak Tadı Lokantası Beşiktaş
A home-style restaurant in Sinanpaşa, Istanbul. The price list covers meat dishes, chicken dishes and soups.
Osmanlı Damak Lokantası Bakırköy
A home-style restaurant in Zeytinlik, Istanbul. The price list covers soups, olive-oil dishes and salads.
Kömür Türk Mutfağı
A home-style restaurant in Ziya Gökalp, Başakşehir, Istanbul. The price list covers meat dishes, döner and fish.
Öz Bolu Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Mimar Sinan, Üsküdar, Istanbul. Open since 1997. The price list covers meat dishes, döner and köfte.
Abdülkadir Restaurant
A home-style restaurant in Cevizlik, Bakırköy, Istanbul. The price list covers meat dishes, döner and köfte.
Yanyalı Fehmi Lokantası
A restaurant in central Kadıköy that has been serving Ottoman-Turkish home cooking since 1919. Listed in the Michelin Guide, it offers lamb stews, köfte, vegetables in olive oil, pulses and milk puddings from a long daily counter.
Tarihi Şen Lokantası
A home-style restaurant in Bostancı, Kadıköy, Istanbul. Open since 1962. The price list covers meat dishes, chicken and vegetable dishes.
Çiya Sofrası
A restaurant in the Kadıköy market streets serving regional Anatolian home cooking since 1998. The counter changes every day, with meat and meat-free stews, stuffed vegetables, soups and pilafs; kebabs and lahmacun are made at Çiya Kebap next door.
Avliya Boşnak Mutfağı Kocatepe
A home-style restaurant in Kocatepe, Bayrampaşa, Istanbul. The price list covers dishes, olive-oil dishes and desserts.
Kanaat Lokantası
A home-style lokanta in Sultantepe, Üsküdar, open since 1933. The menu has meat stews, köfte, grills, dried beans and other cooked vegetable dishes, olive-oil dishes, soups and milk desserts.
Kurufasülyeci Ali Baba
A home-style restaurant in Süleymaniye, Fatih, Istanbul. Open since 1924. The price list covers dishes, döner and desserts.
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