AI-made picture of the dish, not a house photo
What to buy
Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstSimit
A bread ring dipped in grape molasses and rolled in sesame
Where it comes fromIstanbul's own
In 1593 an Üsküdar court register fixed the weight and price of simid-i halka, the ring simit. In the 1630s Evliya Çelebi counted some 70 simit shops in Istanbul, and in 2025 Türkiye registered İstanbul Simidi by name.
Sources: Türkiye's register: İstanbul Simidi (no. 1782, 2025); Mehmet Altan, Medyascope (2025); Ekrem Buğra Ekinci, Türkiye (2025).
At Baltaş Simit Fırını
Warm from the oven. The bakery has no seats, so we'd carry one to the tea house next door.
From Baltaş Simit Fırını's own menu and pages, as we read them in October 2026.
Baltaş Simit Fırını
Turkish · simit · stone-oven bakery · Üsküdar, Istanbul
Eski Toptaşı Cad. No:41, Valide-i Atik, Üsküdar/İstanbul
A stone-oven bakery on Eski Toptaşı Caddesi in Üsküdar that has baked simit, a sesame-crusted ring, for about a hundred and fifty years, all day long.
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