Turkish traditional meal- Iskembe
Entrails
Sakatat (entrails) dishes have great importance in Turkish cuisine.
Entrails are cheaper and more nutritious than other kinds of meat.
Almost all Çarsis have one entrails seller to every three butchers;
moreover some butchers also sell entrails.
Most entrail dishes are grilled and flavored by thyme. The list of
well-known Turkish dishes that made with entrails include the following:
Fried brain, brain salad (a kind of meze), grilled hearth, liver, fried
liver called Arnavut cigeri (again a favorite meze), liver stew with
thyme, iskembe çorbasi (tripe soup) with garlic (the perpetual
remedy drunkards), tribe with chickpea, tripe au gratin, grilled spleen
(especially useful as a treatment for anemia), grilled kidneys, grilled
ram testicles, grilled kokoreç (sheep intestines), trotters
soup and famous Beykoz trotters.
Tripe restaurants, the last stop of drunks, are open 24 hours a day. Here the tripe soup is eaten with plenty of garlic and vinegar. Trotters and kelle are also served. Kelle is the head of the sheep cooked in a special way. Although in most restaurants it is served in pieces on top of pilav sometimes they serve it as it is.
Best of Iskembeci
Daily Hürriyet Newspaper indicated the best 10 Iskembeci (Tripe
Restaurants). Turks believe it is good to drink a bowl of tripe soup
with garlic especially when they had a glass too much. Therefore most
of the tripe restaurants are open for 24 hours.
Apik
Apik is in Dolapdere since 1947. Jeeps and Mercedes's are in queue in
front of Apik late at night. The site is especially preferred by people
belonging to high-income group and is open for 24 hours. The most expensive
tripe soup and the most different "kokoreç" is here.
Lale
Lale is a 42-year old restaurant and has recently opened its new store
at Tarlabasi Caddesi near Taksim. The site is decorated with the facilities
of the latest technology and serves for 24 hours. Besides tripe, trotter
soup and kokoreç are among the favorite tastes of Lale.
Geyikli
It is near Kasimpasa Merkez Mosque and open for 24 hours. Besides offal it
is famous with sweets such as asure and zerde.
Beykoz
Beykoz is located at Çankaya, Ankara and has been serving for 13 years.
It is also among the sites open for 24 hours. Its modern decoration sure attracts
the attention of the customers.
Beyoglu
It carries the most famous district of Istanbul however is located at Çankaya,
Ankara. Open for 24 hours.
Yildirim Bursa
Yildirim has TSE (Turkish Standards Institution) certificate. It is open for
24 hours. Famous with tripe soup.
Bulvar
Bulvar is in Çifteminare, Adana and open for 24 hours. Its tripe soup
with special sauce is famous.
Ismet Usta
Ismet Usta serves in Alsancak, Izmir for 24 hours. This 53-year-old restaurant
has a branch in Çesme too. Famous with its trotter soup.
Rumeli
Rumeli is located in Çaglayan and is open between 08:00-05:00. We suggest
you try trotter soup. Zerde and sütlaç are the delicious sweets
of the restaurant.
Toros
Toros has been serving in Kuruköprü, Adana for 30 years and open
for 24 hours. It is famous with almost all kinds of offal.