The First-Timer · Ece · Istanbul
Çiya Sofrası
This is the one meal I make first-timers cross to Asia for. It's the real regional food, not the kebab-house clichés.
The restaurant that put forgotten Anatolian home cooking on the map, in the Kadıköy market on the Asian side.
— Ece, The First-Timer
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