Guests can bring alcohol

Nearby Public transport

Nearby public transport

WiFi Available

Smoking allowed in the house

Air conditioning

Street Parking

Street parking

Euro

Danish krone

Swiss franc

Norwegian krone

Swedish krona

Brazilian real

Mexican peso

New Zealand dollar

Ringgit Malasio

Peso Argentin

Chinese Yuan

Dollar

Czech koruna

Indian rupee

Romanian leu

British Pound

Canadian dollar

Australian dollar

Hong Kong dollar

Singapore dollar

Japenese Yen

Israeli shekel

Explore the sights, sounds, and flavors of a local 'Istanbul-Besiktas Market' on Saturdays and for the other days take a walk and eat at tasty spots in a close neighbourhood 'Besiktas', 

Expect to taste 'Gözleme', a flatbread filled with various ingredients and cooked on an iron stove, and Turkish tea, and other handmade specialities. Once you're done with your tour, you'll head back to Esra's home for an authentic Turkish cooking class and delicious late lunch! During the class you'll learn to cook and then enjoy three typical Turkish recipes!

Esra is a home cook who has a blog and is developing a business where people can order her meals. 

See Istanbul through the eyes of a local, try the best food and then learn to cook it! You'll leave Istanbul able to recreate the dishes you loved there so much.  


Istanbul Market / Foodie Tour, Cooking Class, and Late Lunch

Expect to try a local delicacy Gözleme, a flatbread with various fillings 

After your tour you'll be learning to cook typical Turkish dishes!

Guests are welcome to BYOB

Esra's home is 10 minutes away from 'Beşiktaş Open Market', which you'll explore on Saturdays and 15 minutes away from 'Besiktas' neighbourhood for the other days

We will be stuffing and rolling vine leaves with meaty filling and flatbread with cheese and meat filling

YAPRAK SARMA & BÖREK

ROLLING

Charred eggplant salad 3 ways and a perfect Kısır-bulghur salad with lots of ingredients

Eggplant salad and KISIR

MASHING

Seasonal Meze and Raki Traditional Dinner

Dining in a Bodrum Garden

Turkish

Spanish

Simplified Chinese

Traditional Chinese

English

French

Hebrew

Italian

After graduating from BA faculty, I found myself cooking (dreaming of a restaurant of my own), for 12 years, I worked as a cook, as a manager and as an owning partner. Now I am cooking, at home, for us and our friends, I have a blog and people can order meals (mostly to serve at their houses) and I am developing this small business now.

When ever I go for a vacation the aim is to eat the best in there, so especially travelling in Turkey we plan our holidays according to those special restaurants locations. I've been to Paris, Dubrovnik, Rhodos, North Cyprus, Santorini, Mykanos, Kos, Rodos, Barcelona, Madrid etc, and my main thing in all these cities were to eat different meals, taste different things and walk in all the streets I can :) Whenever I travel I like the locals guide so I do the same thing here, when I see someone troubled I try to help, especially in restaurants :)

Long story in short, I love to eat, to cook , to travel and the most important thing is sharing them. 
I live to eat not eat to live :)

Istanbul Market / Foodie Tour, Cooking Class, and Late Lunch

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