Istanbul Cafe & Bistro Menu (Update 2025)

Served with warm pitta bread & olives.

Oak smoked salmon served with pesto balsamic dressing.

Served with on a bed of chilli humus salad.

Black eye peas with sweet paprika, sweet peppers, gherkins combined with extra virgin olive oil dressing.

Sliced beef tomato, avocado, on a bed of rocket leaves, with lemon and olive oil.

(Mix of Houmus, Tabbouleh & Shakshuka).

Fillet of chicken breast and 2 pieces of lamb kofte served with bulgur rice.

Green puy lentils and black eyed beans cooked with Mediterranean vegetables. Served with rice.

Grilled lamb kofte, laid on pita, creamy strain yoghurt and rich tomato and rosemary sauce, with a touch of butter.

Chicken Breast Grilled and served on a bed of mixed yoghurt aubergine peppers, garlic sauce & rice.

Grilled Mediterranean vegetables wrapped in tortilla bread served with bulgur rice.

Chunk of Atlantic Salmon cooked with garlic cream sauce and baby spinach leaves finished with green pesto sauce.

Traditional Anatolian dish. Beans cooked with sundried pepper puree with mushroom, onion, peppers and tomato served with rice & yoghurt.

Grilled and served with roast potato.

Cheery tomato with a hint of chilli and creamy tomato sauce.

(for 2 people, excellent for sharing) Humus, shakshuka, cacik & tabbouleh, tarama, borek, grilled beef sausage, grilled halloumi, cheese and mix of lamb shish, chicken shish, kofte & chicken wings served with rice. (No need to choose all of the above will be served.)

Chickpeas, sesame seed paste, lemon juice with garlic & olive oil

Cod roe pate with olive oil & lemon juice

Tomatoes, green peppers, bedded in aubergine roasted with tomato & garlic sauce

Diced cucumber in mint yoghurt, with a hint of garlic & olive oil

Parsley, tomatoes, onions, pomegranate juice, olive oil & cracked wheat

Stuffed vine leaves with rice & pine kernels

Feta cheese with Turkish Salad

Sharing dishes with servings of hummus, cacık, saksuka, tabbouleh, dolma & feta cheese

Minced lamb specially prepared with a variety of herbs

Diced lamb skewered

Skewered small pieces of lamb marinated with herbs

Selection of lamb kofte, lamb chops, diced lamb

Marinated with herbs & grilled, served with roast vegetables, couscous & yoghurt

Lamb Cutlets

Selection of Cold Meze: Hummus, cacık, saksuka, tabbouleh Selection Mixed Grill: Lamb shish, chicken shish, adana kebab, lamb cutlet, chicken wings Served with rice or bulgur, salad & chips

Includes Kofte, diced lamb, lamb cutlet, diced chicken, chicken wings.

(Fantastic, highly recommended) Kofte, chicken kebab, tossed on a bed of freshly grilled aubergine and pepper, served with yoghurt.

Skewered mixed lamb and chicken.

Chicken & lamb with chopped pita bread, in tomato sauce served with yoghurt.

Skewered minced lamb specially prepared with a variety of herbs

Marinated chicken breast with herbs & grilled

Marinated with herbs & grilled, served with roast vegetables, couscous & yoghurt

Skewered mixed lamb and chicken

Chicken & lamb with chopped pita bread, in tomato sauce served with yoghurt

All served with seeded bun, garnish, topped with our special house dressing burger sauce & chips.

All served with seeded bun, garnish, topped with our special house dressing burger sauce & chips.

Cooked with halloumi cheese and our own freshly made chilli sauce. All served with seeded bun, garnish, topped with our special house dressing burger sauce & chips.

Grilled breast of chicken. All served with seeded bun, garnish, topped with our special house dressing burger sauce & chips.

Grilled seabass fillet. All served with seeded bun, garnish, topped with our special house dressing burger sauce & chips.

Made with falafel, hummus and halloumi cheese. All served with seeded bun, garnish, topped with our special house dressing burger sauce & chips.

Fried egg, cheddar cheese or halloumi cheese

Minced meat, tomatoes, onions, garlic & basil.

With hellim cheese & beef sausage with tomato & herb based sauce.

Tomatoes, garlic, chilli peppers & olives.

With mushroom & cream sauce

With a tomato & herb based sauce.

Selection of vegetables with, feta cheese and olives in a tomato sauce.

Scrambled eggs with tomato & green peppers, Turkish style

Poached eggs on thick yoghurt with herbs and butter

2 pan fried eggs

Pan fried scrambled eggs with beef sausage

Eggs cooked in tomato sauce with aubergine, peppers and Feta cheese crumbles

Pan fried Turkish beef sausage

All served with salad

All served with salad

All served with salad

All served with salad

All served with salad

Add Bacon, Avocado, Onion, Mushroom

Choose white or granary sliced bread

Choose white or granary sliced bread

Choose white or granary sliced bread

Choose white or granary sliced bread

Choose white or granary sliced bread

Light and dry with clean finish from Italy. Glass 175ml for 8

Dry and fresh wine from Central Anatolia. Glass 175ml for 9

It is particularly juicy with good balance, vibrant green fruit very slurpable. Glass 175ml for 9.00.

It is particularly juicy with good balance, vibrant green fruit very slurpable.

Straw yellow colour, on the nose shades of wild flowers, lemon and apple. Dry, full-bodied with good acidity. 175ml 10

100% Pinot Grigio, Dry, Fruity, balanced hint of nuts, great with fish & white meat.

50% Gargonego, 40% Trebbiana 10% Chardony Dry, easy drinking wine. delicate & refined bouquet straw coloured with light but well-balanced body.

100% Cortese, Pale straw colour with green tints very delicate & fruity bouquet. Dry, appealing, fresh and harmonious taste.

The favourite rose wine from Turkey. 100%Cal Karasi from Denizli Anatolia attractive red fruit aromas. Perfectly matches with chicken or fish & mezes. Glass 175ml for 8.

Light & Fresh. Full of summer berries with crispdry finish. Glass 175ml for 9.

Vanilla or Chocolate or Strawberry

Tequila, Lime and Lemon Juice, Blue Curacao, Egg White, Triple Sec

White Rum, Lime Juice, Mint

Tequila, Triple Sec, Lime Juice

Gin, Campari, Sweet Vermouth

Vanilla Vodka, Kahlua, Fresh Espresso

Vanilla Vodka, Baileis, Fresh Espresso

Vodka, Cranberry Juice, Countreau, Lime

Aperol, Sparkling Wine, Soda Water

Campari, Sparkling Wine

Pimm, Sprite

Peach Puree, Sparkling Wine

Strawberry Puree, Sparkling Wine

Bourbon Whiskey, Lemon Juice, Mint

Gin, Vodka, Rum, Tequila, Cointreau, Coke

Whiskey, Sugar, Angosture Bitter

Vodka, Peach Liqueur, Orange Juice, Cranberry Juice

Dark Rum & Coke

Vodka, Passoa, Passion Fruit Juice

Served with sweet chili & hummus sauce

Served with sweet chili & hummus sauce

Chickpeas, sesame seed paste, lemon juice with garlic & olive oil

Diced cucumber in mint yoghurt, with hint of garlic & olive oil

Tomatoes, green peppers, in aubergine roasted tomato & garlic

Cod roe pate with olive oil & lemon juice

Parsley, tomatoes, onions, pomegranate, olive oil & cracked wheat

Includes Hummus, Cacık, Saksuka, Tarama, Tabbouleh, Dolma

Freshly fried silo pastry with spinach & feta cheese

Grilled goats cheese

Deep fried broad beans & chickpeas with herbs & hummus

Grilled beef Turkish sausages (spicy)

(Arnavut Cigeri)

With tomato & garlic sauce

Falafel, Borek, Halloumi, Sucuk

Tomatoes, onions, peppers, served with rice & yoghurt

With hummus, chips & salad

Served on a bed of tomatoes,mixed herbs sauce & yoghurt

Mushrooms, Spinach, Cheddar Cheese, Onions, Peppers, Halloumi, Ham, Tomatoes, Feta, Sucuk (Extra fillings each at 90p) (All served with salad and chips)

(homemade)

3 pieces of Pancakes, Blue Berries and Maple Syrup

Served with Jam & Butter

Scrambled eggs with tomato & green peppers, Turkish style

Poached eggs on thick yoghurt with herbs and butter

2 pan fried eggs

Pan fried scrambled eggs with beef sausage

Eggs cooked in tomato sauce with aubergine, peppers and Feta cheese crumbles

Pan fried Turkish beef sausage

Fillings: Spinach, Pepper, Tomatoes, Mushroom, Feta Cheese, Cheddar Cheese, Halloumi Cheese, Potatoes, Ham, Sucuk, Smoked Salmon, Avocado

Bacon, Avocado, Onion, Mushrooms