Authentic Homemade Turkish Breakfast Cooking with Local Friends

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Summary
Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
Where to Meet
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Duration
2 hours 30 minutes
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Number of Guests
2 - 6 guests
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Language
English, Turkish
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Join us for a unique culinary experience; learn to create an authentic Turkish breakfast with locals. Immerse in cultural exchange and discover the warmth of Turkish hospitality.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

We can all go to the best breakfast places in Istanbul, which offer amazing menus with various delicious dishes. But we want to introduce something new; we want to show how we, the local people of Turkey, live.


Just like families, friends in Turkey would invite each other for breakfast and spend a morning together, we want to have you over at our home as our friends. We want to show you Turkish hospitality. But we want to do this by teaching how to make a typical Turkish breakfast. That way, you will be able to bring this culture wherever you want.


We want to learn your culture and teach ours. That makes us different.

Sample Menu

MAIN
Menemen
Classic Turkish breakfast item with eggs and vegetables
MAIN
Muhlama - Kuymak
Corn meal and cheese cooked together
MAIN
Eggs with Sucuk
Turkish classic Sausage with eggs
MAIN
Variety of cheese
MAIN
Turkish Cream (Kaymak) and Honey
Typical Turkish Breakfast item
STARTER
Simit
Classic Turkish breakfast pastry

What You Get

Breakfast

Good To Know

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

The variety in the world keeps us excited to learn more. When we travel, we eat, and most of us love trying new things and new tastes. Everybody knows that Turkish cuisine is very authentic and nice to experience. However, something in Turkish cuisine comes up uniquely as being very rich: Turkish breakfast. Traditional Turkish breakfast has many hot meals such as Menemen, Muhlama, Gözleme, Börek, Omlet, and Sucuk (Turkish Pepperoni), as well as cold items such as various cheeses, olives, sauces, vegetables, honey, jams and milk cream (Kaymak). What makes this experience unique is that we want to introduce Turkish home culture, which comes with great connections and bonds. We want to invite you to our home as our friends, and we want to do this by teaching you how to prepare a homemade Traditional Turkish Breakfast. In other words, we want to show you a typical Turkish morning with a typical Turkish breakfast. Come to our home, be our guest, and let's learn, cook, and create together. Come as a guest, leave as a friend!

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Selamlık Cd. No:21, Selamlık Caddesi, Beşiktaş İstanbul, Türkiye, TR, 34353

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Once you are at Selamlık Street, look for number 21. It is a bit above the car park, the gate of the building is right across Abbasaga Mosque. You can ring the bell on the left side, number 6. After that, you will walk up one floor.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Great experience!
October 07, 2024
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We had a great time and learned a lot during this class. We are back home and like to cook what we learned in the class.

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Cooking with a sweet soul
July 18, 2024
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What a great way to learn!!! Aysu is one of the sweetest souls that I have ever meet. She is an amazing host and made feel at home in her home. We made delicious breakfast and had amazing co...read more

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Turkish Cuisine meets Indian Cuisine
April 21, 2024
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Aysu has been a great chef and a wonderful friend.The moment we met her we did not even feel for a second we are meeting her for the first time. She took us so welcomingly to the local markets of B...read more

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Everyone should experience this!
April 14, 2024
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We really wanted to immerse ourselves in Turkish culture and step outside the normal tourist experience! We love Turkish food and I love to cook! This was perfect! The tour operator calls it a comm...read more

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Wonderful and Unique Experience
April 13, 2024
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This was a great way to experience a Turkish breakfast and learn how it is made. It was also a great chance to talk to both people who live locally and others who were visiting (and their cat Petra...read more

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