OTLANGAÇ KAHVALTI — Restaurant in Beşiktaş

This is by far my favourite, favourite breakfast place! When you walk down Besiktas breakfast street in the morning, all the cafe staff from the stretch of cafes start calling you, following you, trying to get you to have breakfast at theirs. To me, it's off-putting, you almost feel harassed.

This cafe is NOT like that, and that's something I'm thankful for! 😄 The staff are sooo lovely and few of them could speak English (seriously, it's not an issue if they can't - they are genuinely really nice, smiley people!). The food is delish! We usually have our usual gozleme, pisi, yumurtali sucuk and yumurtali ekmek. They never disappoint customers in terms of food and service.

Only one thing though - the toilet is uncomfortably tiny and facing the kitchen without much...

Came to this breakfast place in a little lane near Besiktas. Very cute and cosy vibe, staff is also very nice although they know little English like most places here but they understood us. We got the Turkish Breakfast and a couple add ons.

What’s great is that unlike other Turkish breakfast places, they have many options for kids too which my younger brothers thoroughly enjoyed. They had fries, pancakes, and crepes. The pancakes were delicious and one of my brother’s got the Sushi Crepes with Nutella and strawberries which was delicious too.

All this paired with a cheese-toasted simit and fresh orange juice was chef’s...

I went here straight from the airport the day I arrived in Istanbul as recommended by our driver we hired that day. It opens early and no crowd on Thursday around 8am. We had no clue on what to order. They speak very little English and we ordered ala carte instead of Turkish breakfast set based on photos we saw. We ordered the sausages, some bread and crepes. Wow! It was delicious. Clean toilet as well. Will come again if we ever find this place which hidden amongst those...