Istanbul is the only city in the world that sits on two continents, and it eats like it knows this. Breakfast can run three hours and cover a table in small plates. Dinner doesn’t really start until the tea has been poured, the rakı has arrived, and someone has decided which meze to order first. Lunch might be a sandwich eaten standing at a railing over the Bosphorus, fish grilled on a boat that never quite stops rocking
Istanbul is the only city in the world that sits on two continents, and it eats like it knows this. Breakfast can run three hours and cover a table in small plates. Dinner doesn’t really start until the tea has been poured, the rakı has arrived, and someone has decided which meze to order first. Lunch might be a sandwich eaten standing at a railing over the Bosphorus, fish grilled on a boat that never quite stops rocking