Tasting Notes
İBB Florya Sosyal Tesisleri is on Yeşilköy Halkalı Caddesi, behind the Florya fire station, in the Yeşilköy quarter of Bakırköy. The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) runs it.
Signature dishes
The signature list has köfte baked in a clay dish with basil or barbecue sauce, lamb kavurma on smoked aubergine purée, lamb tandır on iç pilav, entrecôte külbastı, sea bass with beğendi and the Florya kebab.
Breakfast and the main menu
Breakfast comes as a plate or as a serpme spread, with menemen, omelettes and eggs with sucuk or pastırma. The main menu adds soups including fish soup, olive-oil dishes, hot starters, grills, grilled and fried fish, and desserts such as sütlaç, trileçe and profiterol.
“Order the serpme breakfast if you are two or more, or start a main meal with the clay-dish köfte.”
LR Kitchen — field note