coming from mumbai, this felt like an unusual concept where you just walked in, picked up stuff you wanted to eat, without knowing their price and at the end paid whatever cash the guy totalled in his mind. but when you get amazing authentic dishes, in good quantity and at extremely cheap prices, you really don’t care.
this was the one place we relied on whenever we were confused where we should eat or were disappointed by a few places or the weather was just too bad to go looking. this was that holy shrine.
by the end of our trip, we had finished all of their menu except for a couple main-course items maybe. a normal meal with one large bowl of soup, three main-course items and two desserts would cost around 20 tl(try / turkish lira) which translates to inr 520 or 8.5 $. it used to leave the two of us full, and trust me i have a large appetite. meatballs, kofte, salads, soup, chicken legs, lamb, fried liver, eggplant(i absolutely hate eggplants, but i loved their version.), everything here was appetising and tasted delicious.
as you would expect, this place always has a line of people walking in, and yet always has a place to sit. no frills, people come, grab food, eat it, enjoy it and leave.