Culinary backstreets. Two words I can relate to. If you don’t like looking down narrow streets, searching for that little hole-in-the-wall jammed with locals eating food worth sinking your teeth into for a reasonable price, well, you probably don’t have to read on.
Modern day Istanbul has been called a foodie paradise, based on the same model as cucina Italiana, freshness of ingredients and simple preparations are involved. That means a near miss can be close to disaster. You have a whole lot more culinary leeway when a dish involves 12 different meats and 27 spices. So where do you turn for simple, local food?
You can probably do a lot worse then the site called Culinary Backstreets, which offers the local’s view of Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, and Shanghai.
It’s a place on the web you might want to turn to when you’re planning a trip to one of those cities–not just to write down a few recommended restaurants, but to get familiar with the local chow.
Culinary backstreets has an iOS app on the food of Istanbul as well, which has garnered rave reviews. See Culinary Backstreets Istanbul if you have an iDevice.
Eat well my friends.
via Good Eats in Istanbul.
By James Martin, About.com Guide
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