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Our dish — the plate we'd order here first

Mantı

Mantı, tiny dumplings of dough made that day, filled with mince, under garlic yogurt and hot butter with red pepper. The bowl we came for.

Also on our table

  • Mantı, the tiny dumplings

Sayla Mantı

Turkish · mantı · handmade dumplings · Caferağa, Istanbul

Caferağa Mah., Nailbey Sk. No:32, 34710 Kadıköy/İstanbul

Must-goOne of the few places in this city we'd plan a trip around.

A mantı house on Bahariye at the same address since the late sixties, making only mantı, tiny dumplings, and çiğ börek, fried pastries. It has never made anything else.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the mantı

Strong evidence
  • Craft

    The dumplings made fresh in the house all through the day.

    House history ↗

  • Tradition

    The same Bahariye address for more than half a century.

    House history ↗

  • Local choice

    Mantı and çiğ börek, the fried meat pastry, and never anything else.

    House history ↗

We'd add

Our runner-up

Çiğ börek

Çiğ börek, a thin pastry filled with cheese and fried to order. To share alongside.

  • Cooked when you order
  • Same address since 1969

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