Have
you ever eaten something so delicious for the first time and wondered how the
heck it took you so long to discover it?
I’m
sure all of us foodies have.
In
Istanbul, one of those recently
discovered items is pide yumurtalı
(Turkish pizza with egg). I used to order my pide with sucuk
and kaşar peynir (Turkish cheddar
cheese). Then, one day, the photo on a menu of a pide with a sunny yellow egg on top jumped out at me. I want that
one I pointed out on the menu.
Unfortunately,
the egg didn’t come out as oozing sunny side up as it looked like in the
picture, but it was delicious.
Often,
we’ve walked past a small pide shop
near the Saturday pazar
in Beşiktaş. One day, at my urging, we
finally decided to stop and warm up with a bowl of soup and a pide. Karadeniz Pide Kebab ve Yemek Salonu is a simple place where you’ll
find two or three daily soups, a few meze
items and pide. I love the fact that
almost every Turkish café serves soup!
If
you can resist the gözleme
at the pazar, stop by Karadeniz for a
quick lunch. I think the cost for the two us was 24 tl ($13 USD).
Now,
the best place I’ve discovered to eat pide
yumurtalı is at Kırçiçeği in
Ortaköy. Somehow, I received the
most lovely, golden, oozing egg on top of my pide. I used the crispy crust to dip into my egg. Amazing!
Kırçiçeği,
which means wildflower in Turkish, has several locations in Istanbul as well as
Izmir, Bodrum and Ankara. This family-owned company, originally from Aydın,
has been open since 1985.
Now,
I haven’t quite figured out how to say that I want the egg to be sunny side up
like I had at Kırçiçeği. Can anyone advise what Turkish words I need to say
when I order my pide next time?
Afiyet olsun!
Locations:
Karadeniz Pide
Kebab ve Yemek Salonu
Ali
Suavi Sokak (Şehit Ali Kerem Mergen Sokak)
Beşiktaş
Tel:
+90 212 261 2347
Mecidiye
Mah.
Ortaköy
Değirmenci Sokak No:41 (by the Starbucks)
Ortaköy
Tel:
+90 212 260 3535
