Valentine’s Day Menu

The Lovers and The Beloveds Menu

Soup

Scorpion Fish Soup (1539)

Cold Appetizers

Shrimp Pilaki (XV. century)
Shrimps cooked with garlic, carrots, scallions in a light olive oil and vinegar sauce
Gerdaniyye
Lamb chuck slowly braised with aromatic vegetables and herbs, blended with lamb brains, served with sour black plum extract
Ottoman Hums (1469)
Crushed chickpeas lightly pureed with currants, pine nuts and cinnamon

*Wine by the glass /Sultaniye-Emir

Warm Appetizer
Oysters with Melted Local Cheese Topping (1844)

Main Course Selections

Stuffed Quince (1539)
Baked quince stuffed with a blend of minced lamb and beef, rice, aromatic herbs, pine nuts, currants and flavoured with grape molasses

*Wine by the glass – Kalecik Karası

or

Goose Kebab (1539)
Slowly roasted “Çankırı” goose served on a bed of almond pilaf in crunchy Turkish “Yufka”

*Wine by the glass – Öküzgözü

Desserts

Levzine (1539)
Almond halva
“Sembuse” (1650)
Walnut and almond dessert with musk

*Wine by the glass – Safir

On this special evening, love songs of the Ottoman Period will be played live with the “Ud”, the Turkish stringed instrument.
The price, including the wines, is 300 TL for the couple.