Have you ever eaten something so delicious for the first time and wondered how the heck it took you so long to discover it?
I�m sure all of us foodies have.
In Istanbul, one of those recently discovered items is pide yumurtali(Turkish pizza with egg). I used to order my pide with sucukand kasar peynir (Turkish cheddar cheese). Then, one day, the photo on a menu of a pide with a sunny yellow egg on top jumped out at me. I want that one I pointed out on the menu.
Unfortunately, the egg didn�t come out as oozing sunny side up as it looked like in the picture, but it was delicious.
Often, we�ve walked past a small pide shop near the Saturday pazarin Besiktas. One day, at my urging, we finally decided to stop and warm up with a bowl of soup and a pide. Karadeniz Pide Kebab ve Yemek Salonu is a simple place where you�ll find two or three daily soups, a few mezeitems and pide. I love the fact that almost every Turkish caf� serves soup!
If you can resist the g�zlemeat the pazar, stop by Karadeniz for a quick lunch. I think the cost for the two us was 24 tl ($13 USD).
Now, the best place I�ve discovered to eat pideyumurtali is at Kir�i�egi in Ortak�y. Somehow, I received the most lovely, golden, oozing egg on top of my pide. I used the crispy crust to dip into my egg. Amazing!
Kir�i�egi, which means wildflower in Turkish, has several locations in Istanbul as well as Izmir, Bodrum and Ankara. This family-owned company, originally from Aydin, has been open since 1985.
Now, I haven�t quite figured out how to say that I want the egg to be sunny side up like I had at Kir�i�egi. Can anyone advise what Turkish words I need to say when I order my pide next time?
Afiyet olsun!
Locations:
Karadeniz Pide Kebab ve Yemek Salonu
Ali Suavi Sokak (Sehit Ali Kerem Mergen Sokak)
Besiktas
Tel: +90 212 261 2347
Mecidiye Mah.
Ortak�y Degirmenci Sokak No:41 (by the Starbucks)
Ortak�y
Tel: +90 212 260 3535