Istanbul'lu Menu

237 Holland St, Somerville, MA 02144
  • STARTERS

    • Red Lentil Soup

      Lentil cooked tomato sauce and mint spiced Turkish style.
      $9.00
    • Coban Salad

      Cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, onion chopped, tossed with olive oil and lemon juice.
      $12.00
    • Piyaz Salad

      White beans mixed with chopped tomatoes, red bell peppers, onions, tossed with olive oil, lemon juice, and sumak.
      $13.00
    • Cacik

      Turkish yogurt mixed with garlic and shredded cucumber olive oil.
      $9.00
    • Humus

      Made in house, our blend of chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, and olive oil.
      $8.00
    • Leyla Ile Mecnun

      House humus served with cooked tomatoes, beef sausage, and pita bread.
      $13.00
    • Dolma

      Grape leaves stuffed with rice, served with yogurt on top.
      $8.00
    • Haydari

      Kefir cheese mixed with garlic olive oil and dill, topped with hot butter.
      $8.00
    • Eggplant Salad

      Roasted eggplant, red bell peppers, green peppers, chopped, mixed with olive oil, lemon, garlic, and parsley.
      $11.00
    • Sak Suka

      Cubed eggplant fried with green peppers and carrots, served with yogurt tomato sauce on top.
      $11.00
    • Mucver

      Fried zucchini pancake with zucchini, red bell peppers, green peppers, onions, carrot, chopped, mixed with beyaz peynir and eggs, flower.
      $9.00
    • Imam Bayild

      Baby Italian eggplant stuffed with sautéed onions & peppers.
      $10.00
    • Bebek Karniyarik

      Small eggplant stuffed with sautéed onions and ground beef.
      $11.00
    • Lahmacun

      We can call it Turkish pizza. Very thin dough topped with a mix of ground meat and chopped veggies like onions, peppers, parsley.
      $14.00
    • Pekmezli

      Roasted pepper, feta cheese, walnut, topped with pekmez.
      $12.00
    • Mercimek Kofte

      Red lentil steamed, mixed with crack wheat and parsley tomato paste, Turkish species served with yogurt on top.
      $9.00
    • Mixed Meze

      Mix of Turkish mezes like humus, mercimek, kofte, haydari, dolma, served on a platter.
      $24.00
    • Peynir Plate

      Mix of delicious Turkish cheeses with fresh sliced tomato and cucumber, topped with olive oil pull biber.
      $24.00
  • ENTREES

    • Iskender Chicken

      Popular grilled chicken breast, served over pieces of pita bread, yogurt, tomato sauce, and topped with melted butter.
      $23.00
    • Iskender Doner

      Pita bread cooked in the pan with butter topped with tomato sauce and yogurt served with doner.
      $24.00
    • Iskender Kofte

      Popular kofte served over pieces of pita bread, yogurt, and tomato sauce, topped with melted butter.
      $24.00
    • Doner

      Thinly sliced meat marinated in our special sauce and roasted, served with rice, cooked veggies, fries, taste of salad.
      $24.00
    • Adana Kebab

      Ground lamb mixed with chopped red bell peppers, garlic, spices, skewered, cooked in the grill.
      $24.00
    • Kofte

      Ground lamb meat mixed with chopped onions, garlic, parsley, breadcrumbs, eggs, and Turkish spices cooked on the grill. Served with rice, cooked veggies, little yogurt.
      $23.00
    • Grilled Tavuk

      Lean chicken breast marinated in our home made sauce cooked on the grill. Served with chopped onions, peppers with tomato sauce. Served with rice, cooked veggies, little yogurt, taste of salad, and tomato sauce.
      $23.00
    • Iskender

      Pita bread cooked in the pan with butter, topped with tomato sauce, yogurt served with doner.
      $24.00
    • Yogurt Kebab

      Pita bread, yogurt, and tomato sauce baked in the oven, served with choice of adana, chicken, or kofte.
      $23.00
    • Sultan S Delight

      Roasted cleaned eggplant made to be a pureé with milk and cheese, served with choice of meat or veggies.
      $21.00
    • Sultan Delight

      Roasted cleaned eggplant made to be a puree with milk and cheese served with choice of meat or veggies.
      $21.00
  • TURKISH HOMES MOST POPULAR COOKING

    • Kuru Fasulye

      White beans cooked with rice and yogurt, sumak, and onions.
      $21.00
    • Firinda Patlican

      Fried eggplant cooked in the oven with sauteed ground meat, onions, and peppers in tomato sauce served with rice and yogurt.
      $24.00
    • Tas Kebab

      Lean beef sauteed with chopped onions, slow-braised in tomato sauce with special spices, served with rice and salad.
      $24.00
  • PILAV USTU [over rice]

    • Pilav Ustu with Coban Salad

      Our famous rice & chickpeas topped with Coban Salad.
      $14.00
    • Pilav Ustu with Kuru Fasulye

      Our famous rice & chickpeas topped with Kuru Fasulye.
      $14.00
    • Pilav Ustu with Chicken

      Our famous rice & chickpeas topped with Chicken.
      $16.00
    • Pilav Ustu with Sak Suka

      Our famous rice & chickpeas topped with Sak Suka.
      $14.00
    • Pilav Ustu with Tas Kebab

      Our famous rice & chickpeas topped with Tas Kebab.
      $16.00
    • Pilav Ustu with Piyaz Salad

      Our famous rice & chickpeas topped with Piyaz Salad.
      $14.00
  • TURKISH BAKERY

    • Yoldas Breakfast

      Popular Turkish "on the run" breakfast items: combination plate with pohca, börek, and simit.
      $14.00
    • Su Borek

      Thin layers of dough cooked in the water stacked like lasagna stuffed with white cheese baked in the oven.
      $12.00
    • Cheese Borek

      Thin layers of dough stuffed with beyaz peynir baked in the oven. Available with spinach.
      $9.00
    • Sigara Borek

      Thin layer of dough pre cooked on hot surface stuffed with feta cheese and pan fried .
      $9.00
    • Gozleme

      Southern Turkey's famous breakfast idiom liquid dough cooked on the hot grill stuffed with mushroom and cheese.
      $12.00
    • Pohca

      Buttery bun stuffed with cheese topped with sesame baked in the oven.
      $7.00
    • Simit

      Sesame covered special dough baked in the shape of ring.
      $5.00
  • TURKISH BREAKFAST IN ISTANBULLU

    • Menemen

      Chopped tomatoes, little onions, and peppers slow-cooked with eggs and beyaz peynir.
      $10.00
    • Sucuk Yumurta

      Turkish dry beef sausage with eggs.
      $13.00
    • Pastirma Li Yumurta

      Turkish beef pastrami with eggs.
      $13.00
    • Kaynana & Gelin

      Chopped parsley cooked with feta cheese eggs topped with tomato sauce.
      $12.00
    • Cilbir

      Poached eggs with garlic yogurt hot butter. Available with sauteed onions and tomatoes.
      $12.00
    • Kiymali Yumurta

      Sautéed chopped onions & pepper cooked with ground beef and eggs, topped with tomato sauce.
      $15.00
  • BREAKFAST PLATTERS

    • Kral Sofrasi

      Greater assortment of cheese, black olives, green olives, honey jam, helva borek, pohca, simit, sliced tomatoes, cucumber, served with sucuk yumurta.
      $50.00
    • Plate of Turkish Morning

      Mix of cheese, olive, honey jam, sliced tomatoes, cucumber, and boiled egg with sucuk.
      $19.00
    • Yoruk Breakfast

      Southern Turkey's traditional breakfast plate served with gozleme kaynana gelin fresh veggies.
      $23.00
    • Laz Pancakes

      Traditional black sea style, my mother's pancake recipe of milk and flour based pancakes. Topped with honey, recel and beyaz peynir.
      $16.00
    • Laz Pancakes with Sucuk

      Traditional black sea style, my mother's pancake recipe of milk and flour based pancakes. Topped with honey, recel, beyaz peynir and sucuk.
      $19.00
    • Laz Pancakes with Pastirma

      Traditional black sea style, my mother's pancake recipe of milk and flour based pancakes. Topped with honey, recel, beyaz peynir and pastirma.
      $19.00
    • Laz Pancakes with Eggs

      Traditional black sea style, my mother's pancake recipe of milk and flour based pancakes. Topped with honey, recel, beyaz peynir and eggs.
      $18.00
    • Laz Pancakes with Combo

      Traditional black sea style, my mother's pancake recipe of milk and flour based pancakes. Topped with honey, recel, beyaz peynir and combo.
      $21.00
    • Yoldas Breakfast

      Combination of Turkish bakery items served for taste like borek, simit, pohca.
      $19.00
  • TURKISH STYLE PANINI

    • Sucuklu

      $10.00
    • Kasgaval

      $9.00
    • Pastirmali

      $11.00
    • Yengen

      Sucuk, pastirma, peynir, tomatoes.
      $13.00
  • TURKISH SANDWICHES

    • Chicken

      Grilled chicken breast.
      $10.00
    • Sucuk

      Dried beef sausage.
      $10.00
    • Kofte

      Sumak, parsley, onions, tomatoes, ketchup.
      $9.50
    • Tavuk

      Yogurt, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, tomato sauce.
      $9.50
    • Yaprak

      Turkish salami, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, mayo, ketchup.
      $9.50
    • Sosis

      Famous Turkish street food hot dog cooked in homemade tomato sauce, served with pickles, lettuce, and fresh cut tomatoes with mustard.
      $10.50
    • Saksuka

      Yogurt, tomatoes, lettuce, tomato sauce.
      $9.00
    • Humus

      Tomatoes, lettuce, pickles.
      $9.00
    • Mercimek Kofte

      Yogurt, lettuce, tomatoes.
      $9.00
    • Dolma

      Yogurt, lettuce, tomatoes.
      $9.00
  • SIDES

    • French Fries

      $6.00
    • Homemade Bread

      Order only if you want extra.
      $3.00
    • White Rice

      $5.00
    • Sucuk

      $8.00
  • TURKISH DESSERTS

    • Baklava

      Thin layers of dough stacked and soaked with Turkish style syrup with walnut or pistachio.
      $7.00
    • Kadayif

      String-like dough stuffed with pistachio baked in the oven and soaked in syrup.
      $8.00
    • Kunefe

      String-like dough stuffed with special cheese baked in the oven soaked in our syrup.
      $13.00
    • Rice Pudding

      Made in house sweet mixture of rice vanilla topped with cinnamon.
      $8.00
  • DRINKS

    • Turkish Tea

      $3.00
    • Turkish Coffee

      $5.00
    • Bottled Soda

      Fanta or Sprite.
      $3.00
    • Juice

      $3.00
    • Ayran

      $3.00
    • Sparkling Water

      $3.00
    • Apple Tea

      $3.00

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