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A minute's walk from Sirkeci
railway station is a cluster of
small, simple, pleasant restaurants
serving
tasty meals at moderate prices. If
you're looking for a good, pleasant,
inexpensive place to eat while visiting
the Egyptian
(Spice) Market or the Eminönü ferry
docks, make the short walk to Hocapaşa.
From Sultanahmet,
take the Kabataş
tram to Gülhane or Sirkeci
station.
The restaurants are clustered by the
Mosque of Hocapaşa (HOH-jah-pah-shuh)
just south
of Sirkeci
station.
From the station, walk south uphill
on Ankara Caddesi for
one short
block
and turn left to find the mosque and
restaurants.
In fine weather, tables and chairs
are set out in the small square and
nearby streets, filling many of them.
The open-air
dining and
old-time neighborhood atmosphere are
pleasant. Prices are
reasonable, so you might as well choose
by first impressions: pick one you
like, look at what's cooking, point
to what you want, take a table and
enjoy.
Take your choice from ready-food
restaurants,
grills, or pide (Turkish
pizza) places. A light meal of pide
and a drink may cost as little
as TL10.
A ready-food lunch might cost
TL15
to TL20;
a big dinner TL18
to TL35.
In general, alcoholic beverages
are not served here.
Here are descriptions:
Kasap Osman Iskender Kebap
"Osman the Butcher" knows good meat,
which is why he wants you to try
his savory Iskender
kebap. This is
the most prominent of the small restaurants
here, located directly across from
the Hocapasa mosque.
Namlı Rumeli Köftecisi
At Hocapaşa Sokak
No. 22, across the street from Kasap
Osman, is this longtime favorite place
for ızgara köfte.
The
chef, an immigrant from Komotini (Gümülcine)
in Greece, selects his meat carefully,
and prefers
real
tomatoes to the hard white hothouse
fruit.
Kral Ocakbaşı
An ocakbaşı (oh-JAHK-bah-shuh)
restaurant is one in which customers
sit right at
a long rectangular grill. That doesn't
work here, but the grilled kebaps and
köfte are
still good, and inexpensive.
Et-İş
Pronounced "EHT-eesh," a literal
translation would be "meat-work," but
in fact there are as many ready-food dishes (if not more).
Balkan Lokantası Self Service
A more modern ready-food
restaurant with a good variety of dishes at low
prices.
Hocapaşa Pide Kebap
Lahmacun Pizza
The name of this place
is its menu. Your pide (Turkish-style
pizza) is made to order: peynirli (with
cheese), kıymalı (with ground
meat), sucuklu (with spicy
sausage), tavuklu (with
chicken). Quick, tasty, hygienic,
inexpensive, good! You can also get
kebaps and lahmacun, an
Arabic-style pizza of thin, soft
bread spread lightly with tomato
sauce and sprinkled with ground meat
and spices.
Akdamar Döner ve Köfte
Salonu
Although the name makes you think
this eatery specializes in döner
kebap and izgara
köfte, there
is a ready-food steam
table.
Another great place for a delicious,
filling, nutritious, cheap meal is
under the Galata
Bridge at one of the
small eateries selling traditional
Istanbul
fish sandwiches. More...
For fine dining in more upscale
surroundings at moderate prices, try these
restaurants.
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Shady
sidewalk tables await
lunch
customers in Hocapaşa.
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