Istanbul On Food Culinary Tour

Istanbul On Food Culinary Tour is a great option to taste the Turkish cuisine with your local expert. Turkish cuisine is known for its seemingly infinite breadth of flavor imparted by herbs and spices such as mint, parsley, cinnamon, cumin, garlic, and dill. What’s remarkable is that even with the wealth of flavors, the Turks are able to maintain a balance of tastes, never overpowering.

Turkish cuisine is diverse, a wonderful exposition of the abundant flora and fauna with which the land is blessed. When in Istanbul, expect to indulge in delicious vegetable-based dishes, lamb, breads and pastries, cheeses, and yogurt.

Worried about gaining too much weight from all the good food in Istanbul? Burn the calories by walking around the city and admiring its gorgeous sights.

Enjoy this Istanbul On Food Culinary Tour

This tour will give you a chance to taste Istanbul’s popular street foods during your tour. We will visit traditional artistan restaurant and see the home made style meals and taste them. Than we visit Turkish delight shop and taste them with Turkish coffee. We will taste lahmacun (a very uncomplicated meal of thin dough topped with a minced meat-onion-red pepper mixture, slid in the oven for a few minutes and served piping hot) Later, we walk to taste kokoreç ( actually spiced and skewered sheep’s intestines, served in either half or quarter of a bread loaf with plenty of grease and salt to go with). And Midye Dolma ( mussels on the half shell, mixed with spicy rice and served with a squeeze of lemon juice) ** Optionally, we can taste local drinks, Raki, Beer and wines with supplement costs.