Restaurant: Manzara
Location: Barbaros Blvd Besiktas, Istanbul 34353 Turkiye. +90 212 310 25 25
Date: June 12, 2023
Cuisine: Modern Turkish
Rating: Hotel restaurant, but good
This is the first meal in my new Eating Türkiye 2023 series.
Manzara is the main restaurant in the Conrad Hilton.
The menu.
Bread.
Garlic butter.
Olive oil.
Arugula Salad with Artichoke. Olive oil cooked artichoke, baby arugula, citrus, pomegranate, candied walnut, Biga goat cheese, raspberry sauce.
Lakerda. Salt water cured bonito, pickled red onion, seasonal greens, olive oil. Very nice. Salty with strong flavors.
“Kitel.” Siirt style kibbeh with beef and walnut, buffalo yogurt, parsley, sweet basil, spicy burnt butter. Like thick ravioli with a kind of beef “chili” inside and yogurt sauce. Quite delicious.
See the meat inside.
Simple pasta.
Grilled Sea Bass. Buckwheat tabbouleh, oyster mushroom, lettuce, fresh herbed lemon sauce.
Konya Oven Kebap. Braised lamb shoulder, pita breead, grilled spring onion, tomato, pepper, thyme. The meat was a little but dry but was very nice with the yogurt.
The dessert menu.
Manzara was quite pleasant. It’s a hotel restaurant, but the food quality was high and it wasn’t particularly expensive. Atmosphere was a touch stiff but there was great service and a lovely view.