Istanbul is definitely one of our favourite cities… Lively, colourful, oriental, with delicious food that we explored in 2012 with a guide called ‘Istanbul eats: exploring the culinary backstreets‘. We always miss those flavours (like many others from our trips) and always try to find them at home.
Before we went to Istanbul, we used to discover Turkish cuisine in MAHO. In autumn 2010, Maho was nominated for the Restaurant of the Year by Gazeta Wyborcza, I was pregnant which made all sorts of culinary desires understandable. We liked to drop by and have a Turkish ‘pizza’ – pida, lahmacun and various types of aubergines and lamb for Łukasz. We returned to Maho frequently, especially that it was one of the few restaurants on our culinary dessert. Then, we got the idea that something went wrong…
Lately, quite accidentally, we got there being hungry after swimming. With Maks, who instantly noticed a kids’ corner…
3 adults ordered 2 snack platters (cold and hot), pide with Turkish sausage and grilled chops with kashar cheese. Turkish drink in tiny glasses for drinks and delicious bread that tastes best when you tear it with your fingers.
a warm up
chlebek
Meze tabagi – a cold snacks platter (PLN 25) – includes hummus, grilled aubergines and courgettes in garlic and yoghurt sauce called cacik (the similarity if the names is not accidental), esme and ispanak (stewed spinach with garlic, onion and yoghurt sauce). All disappears in the nick of time, being eaten with a still warm bread. Hot starters – em>sicak meze tabagi (PLN 28) come next. Here, we get kofta, sigara boregi – crispy rolls filled with feta cheese and parsley along with fried courgettes called mücver. Maks happily nibbles on a little kofta.
meze tabagi – cold snacks
funny way of serving, but it tasted great
We order two main courses for the tree of us. Kasarli Kofte (PLN 24) – grilled burgers made from mixed beef and lamb meat with Turkish kashar cheese, served with groats or rice. A very masculine meal, but the groats fit the child well 🙂 I’m feeling nostalgic and decide to get Sucuklu Pide (PLN 24) – a ‘pizza’ with Turkish sausage. Wow, such a filling meal! I ate only 3 pieces or so and shared the rest with other Turkish cuisine lovers.
Kasarli Kofte – a meal for men/caption]
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a different take on pizza – Turkish pide
Even though we’re already quite stuffed, we cannot leave without trying kunefe (PLN 16)! It must be my favourite Turkish dessert, even though it’s not as well known as baklava. I love its sweet flavour, the crispiness and the melting cheese! Kunefe tastes perfect in Maho!
kunefe
Maho is a great idea for a quick lunch, dinner on the go and also for… shopping. Maho is not only a restaurant but also a shop with Turkish specialties and fresh meat – beef, poultry and most of all – lamb. All of these are ‘halal’ products that come from ritual slaughter. Łukasz shopped at Maho more than once and made the best stuffed aubergines EVER! 🙂
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
al. Krakowska 240 / 242
tel. 22 609 15 48
601 542 047
email: info @maho.com.pl
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