Iskendere Restaurant

Iskendere Restaurant is located nearby the Courtyard hotel, within walking distance. It serves authentic Turkish cuisine, at a reasonable price.

It was one cold nite, that me and the two other colleagues walked to this place. The entire street was cold and wet, temperature was below 10 degree Celcius, nothing can give us such warmness except for some food in this humbly warm restaurant.

And this was my first Turkish meal, in a very "Turkish" restaurant.

The below is "beef shish" - Rice, served with yogurt, pita wrapped with beef, baked tomatoes and green chilli

it looks colourful, and tasted not bad...

i ordered lemon tea, one small glass for the price of 1 Turkish Lira

the below photo shows the interior of the place

i luv the green chairs

we were all hungry, somehow our colleague here was busy reading emails on blackberry, looking somewhat puzzled...
Anyhow, we managed to wallop everything served on the table, despite so many "job-related" issues around.

 On another rainy day, we went to this same place again coz it seems to have no other options of eatery places nearby.

This time, I had a complete meal with soup - the "Lentil soup"

 salads

 breads, that is eaten with butter and cheese

 mini Turkish pizza

 this is what my colleague has ordered, the "Iskender"...sort of beef on top of egg, served with yogurt, baked tomatoes and green chilli

 and here is mine - lamb kebab served with rice, baked tomatoes & green chillies, topped with sliced cabbages

Tastewise, the food are delicious and not pricey in such nice environment. Surprisingly i have no issue in adapting to the Turkish cuisine, which is somewhat a fusion between middle east and western.

BON APPETIT!