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The Chef · Azra · Istanbul

Çiya Sofrası

Kadıköy · Anatolian regional kitchen · $$

This is the only place I send serious eaters first. It cooks recipes chefs forgot. I've eaten here a hundred times and never had the same menu.

Musa Dağdeviren's regional table: dishes from villages most Istanbullus never visit, changing with what the season sends up from the south.

— Azra, The Chef
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