Istanbul Cafe Middle Eastern

Istanbul Cafe Menu

(617) 232-1700
1414 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton, MA 02135

Appetizers


Dolma Plate
Fine chopped onion and parsley cooked in olive oil with rice and several kinds of nuts; stuffed in your choice of either grape leaves, tomatoes, green pepper, or zucchini
Sigara Borek (4)
Turkey's popular borek stuffed with beyaz peynir, feta cheese, mixed with parsley and eggs
Patlican Salata
Charcoal grilled eggplant mashed and tossed with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil
Taze Fasulye (Zeytin Yagli)
Fresh green beans cooked in the best turkish tradition
Barbunya (Plaki)
Pinto beans cooked with sauteed onions, carrots, green peppers, and spiced in our unique way
Tarator (Spinach)
Chopped spinach mixed with walnuts and spiced with yogurt sauce
Platican Soslu
Fried baby eggplant mixed and spiced with onion, pepper and tomato sauce
Tcli Kofte (2)
With cracked wheat and sauteed with several kinds of nuts and spiced the traditional way, hot - but not so much in our cafe
Mercimek Kofte
Red lentil, cracked wheat and spices mixed with fresh onion and parsley, cooked in water and topped with yogurt sauce
Hummus
Mashed chickpeas spread with tahini
Istanbul Cafe's Sampler Plate

Salads


Coban Salad
Fine chopped fresh pickled cucumbers, red onion, parsley, plum tomatoes and scallions with olive oil and lemon
Cacik
Cacik, cucumber-garlic salad with olive oil
Yesil Salata
Arugula, romaine lettuce, carrots with lemon dressing
Ceasar Salad
Fresh romaine lettuce mixed with ceaser dressing, parmesan cheese and croutons

Soups


Plain Lentil Soup
Turkish Style Mushroom Soup

Entrees - Kebabs


Yaprak Doner Kebab
Thin sliced lam meat marinated in our special sauce just long enough to absorb the flavor
Iskender Kebab
Doner Kebab served over pita bread which has been cooked whit a little butter & topped with special sauce and yogurt
Tavuk Kebab
Boneless chicken breast cubed and marinated in our special sauce long enough to taste wonderful
Kuzu Kebab
Lean lamb cubed and marinated in our eastern turkey style sauce
Adana Kebab
Ground beef mixed with vegetable juice and spices, attached to a special shish and cooked over charcoal. Served over rice pilaf
Izgara Kofte
Ground lamb seasoned with turkish spices and chargrilled to your taste
Pirzola
Served over rice pilaf
Karisik Kebab
Combination of kofte, chicken, lamb and adanna kebab served together over rice pilaf

Pastas


Tavuk Soslu
Cubed chicken breast sauteed with vegetables and served over linguine
Sebzeli
Sauteed onions, peoppers and tomotes, spiced and served over linguine
Peynirli
Linguine sauteed with feta cheese and butter

Fish Dinners


Levrek
Grilled or broiled sea bass. Served with green salad
Salmon
Grilled or broiled. Served with green salad

Sandwiches


Veggies
Hummus
Yaprak Dolma
With yogurt sauce
Mercimek Kofte
With yogurt sauce
Patlican Salata
Meat
Lamb
Chicken
Adana
With yogurt sauce
Yaprak Doner
Izgara Kofte

Specialties


Hunkar Begendi (Choice of Chicken or Lamb)
With baked chunks of lamb marinated in tomato sauce
Musakka
A Turkish favorite summer dish, cubed baby eggplant, topped with sauteed onions, peppers, ground beef and cheese, baked in the oven
Etli Bamya
Okra and chunks of lamb baked with fresh lemon, served over rice
Haslama (Chicken)
Alinazik
Pureed eggplant served with copped and shaved lamb topped with a yogurt sauce
Tavuk Bonfile
Boneless chicken breast sliced and marinated in a special turkish sauce and cooked on the grill. Served with coban salad and rice
Kavurma
Your choice of chicken or lamb sauteed in butter with onions, pepper and mushrooms and is usually spiced the turkish way

Fish Side Orders


Kalamar
Calamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a mesculine salad
Hamsi

Sides Orders


Imam Bayildi (2)
Baby eggplant stuffed with vegetables
Kalamar
Calamari grilled and spiced and mixed with a lesculine salad
Mucver (4)
Manti (3)
Fresh dough stuffed with ground beef cooked in water and topped with yogurt and tomato sauce
Arnavut Cigeri
Pan fried cube cut calf's liver with onion and parsley salad
Beyaz Peynir
Turkish feta cheese served with roasted red pepper and basil sauce
Lachmacun (3 Small)
Eastern Turkey style ground beef and vegetable mix, spiced and cooked on a very thin dough in the oven
Karadeniz Pidesi
Peynirli
Similar to cheddar cheese
Kiymali
Ground Beef with sauteed onions
Sucuklu
Turkish style sausage
Pastirmali
Turkish style pastrami
Karisik
Sucuk, kiyma, pastirma, cheese and eggs

Desserts


Baklava
Kunefe
Baked Rice Puddin
Kazandibi with Ice Cream
Irmik Helva
Creme Carame
Kemal Pasa

Drinks - Cold


Ayran
Ayran - Fruit Juice
Seftali - Peach
Kayisi - Apricot
Visne - Sour Cherry
Uluag Gazoz - Turkish white soda with Flavor
Madensuyu - Sparkling Water
Coke
Diet Coke
Ginger Ale
Ice Tea
Turkish Limonata

Drinks - Hot


Turkish Coffee
Rize Cayi (Turkish Tea)
Elma Cayi (Apple Tea)
Regular Tea or Coffee

Salatalar


Mixed Meculin Salad
Tomatos Salat with Cheese
Patates Salat (Acili)
Patates Salat (Mayonezli)
Patates Piyaz
Patates Yogurtlu
Rus Salatasi
Ispanak Yogurtlu
Kisir Salat
Acili Mantar Salat
Mantar Salat Mayonezli
Ahtapot Salat
Kuru Fasulye Piyaz
Nohut Piyaz
Barbunya Piyaz
Taze Fasulye Salatasi
Misir Salatasi
Kabak Ezme Salatasi
Kabak Yogurtlu Salat
Haydari
Makarna Salat (Yogurtlu Veya Acili)

Soups


Red Lentil
Domates
Sebze Kremali Vegetables
Tavuk Kremali - Chicken
Tavuk Sebzeli - Chicken, Vegetables
Tavuk Sheriyeli - Chicken
Ispanak Eksili - Spinach, White
Iskembe Corbasi
Kelle Paca
Mantar Kremaci - Mushroom
Mantar Salcali
Mushroom with red sauce
Yayla Corbasi
Yogurt, rice
Balik Cokbasi
Fish soup
Yesil Mercimek
Green peas

Entrees


Hasan Pasa Kofte
Eksili Kofte
Sebzeli Kofte
Icli Kofte
Firinda Tavuk
Firinda Kuzu
Tavuk Kofte
Ciflik Kebab
Orman Kebab
Bostan Kebabi (Tavuk, Sebze)
Karides Guvec
Balik Buglama
Balik Kizartma
Tas Kebabi
Begendili Kebab
Hunkar Begendi
Yogurtlu Kebab
Patlican Kebab
Karni Yarik
Tavuk Adana

Borekler


Seafood Borek
Pastirmali Borek
Ispanakli, Patatesli, Borek
Sebzeli Borek
Talap Borek
Nuska Borek

Pideler


Pastirmali
Sucuklu
Kasarli
Mantarli
Sebzeli
Kiymali
Kavurmali
Beyazpeynirli
Balikli
Mavti
Algkofte

Kebablar


Mantar Kebab (Purely Veya Begendili)
Baliku Mantar (Purely Veya Begendili)
Comlek Kebabi
Comlek Kebabi
Balikli Talaskebi
Elbasan Tava
Sebzeli Elbasan
Balikli Elbasan
Buftek Ogreten (Istanbul Cafe Kebab)
Tavuk Kavurma
Kuzli Kavurma
Coban Kavurma
Kuzu Sote
Tavuk Sote
Balik Sote
Tavuk Tandir
Kuzu Tandir
Dona Haslama
Tavuk Haslama
Kuzu Haslama
Kandin Budu Kofte
Izmir Kofte
Sagan Kofte

Sebzeli Yemekler

Avalible with: sade, etli, peynirli, firinda
Taze Fasulye
Kuru Fasulye
Lahana Dolma (Salcali or Eksili)
Yaprak Dolma
Biber Dolma
Patlican Dolma
Domates Dolma
Ispanak
Beyaz Lahana
Karni Bahar
Enginar
Brokoli
Kabak
Mantar Yahni
Turlu
Prasa

Zeytinyaglilar


Fresh Green Beans
Kidney Bean
Okra
Zucchini
Spinach
Green Bell Or Long Peper
Tomato
Zucchini
Eggplant
White Cabige

Pilakiler

Olive oil red sauce
Okra
Artichoke
Mushroom
Kidney Bean
White Beans
Broad Beans
Peas

Side Orders


Pilav (Boldo Rice)
Sebzeli, domatesli, shriveli, etli, la pilav ciger, fistik, uzum
Bulgur
Sehriyeli, sebzeli, mey hane bulgury acili
Sehriye Pilavi (Arpa, Tel Sehriye)
Sobzeli veg, etli meat
Pelican Puresi
Patates Puresi
Ispanak Kavurma
Taze Fasulye Kavurma
Kara Lahana Kavurma
Kurufasulye Kavurma
Kariyik Sebze Kavurmasi
Bezelye Kavurma
Enginar Kavurma
Sebze Kizatma
Patlican, patates, biber roper, kabak zucini, kornibahar yumurtali - egg, karipik kizartma

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