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Top 10 soup restaurants in Turkey
Top 10 soup restaurants in Turkey
Turkish cuisine is one of the richest in the world when it comes to soups. Most Turks prefer to begin their lunches and dinners with soup, which is why you can find an incredible variety and depth in this culinary area. Click through for the top 10 soup restaurants across Turkey, selected by the Hürriyet jury of gourmets and food researchers...
1) Mahmut Usta - This place is in Istanbul’s Fatih district. Its speciality is “paça” soup which is made from sheep trotter that is imported from the western Turkish province of Balıkesir. The flour and buffalo yoghurt that is used in this soup’s seasoning also come from Balıkesir.
2) Lale - In Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district, this restaurant’s tripe soup is hugely popular. Also an after-party diner, Lale is open 24 hours a day.
3) Hünkar - You won’t regret if you try all the “homemade food” cooked in Istanbul’s upscale Nişantaşı neighborhood’s best soup restaurant, but you should especially taste its lentil soup.
4) Camgöz - One of the most popular fish restaurants in Ankara, this Çankaya venue offers the best fish soup in Turkey.
5) İsmet Usta - Ezogelin is one of the first names that comes to one’s mind when wanting to find a soup specific to Turkish cuisine. Made from tomatoes, lentils and rice, the original recipe of Ezogelin soup dates back to the first Turkmens who came to southeast Anatolia in the 11th century. İsmet Usta in İzmir’s Alsancak district is the best place to try this soup.
6) Kelebek - In the “Beyran” soup, a lamb’s shank almost dances with the rice. Try it at Kelebek restaurant in the southeastern province of Gaziantep’s Şahinbey district.
7) Zemzem - There are two novelties in this restaurant in the Central Anatolian city of Konya: Firstly, their best soup is made of gumbo, which is not the most popular ingredient for Turkish soups. Secondly, when making this soup, they use “zemzem,” the holy water for Muslims.
8) Sülfettin Usta - In normal “paça” soups, the meat on the outside of a sheep’s foot is used. However, in this restaurant in the eastern province of Erzurum, only the inside of the foot is used, which makes it even more delicious. It is called “tırnak paça.”
9) Çorba Evi (Soup House) - If you want to try several Turkish soups at once, this restaurant in Istanbul is the ideal place to go to, as they have 20 great soups cooked every day. The must-try is the pumpkin soup.
10) Ayaspaşa - Perhaps you would also like to try a Turkish version of a foreign soup. The borsch has become one of the best delicious soups in the world with the broth of calf bones at this restaurant in the Istanbul neighborhood of Gümüşsuyu, which was a historic sanctuary for Russian immigrants.
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