Restaurant: Aheste
Location: Asmalı Mescit, Meşrutiyet Cd. No:107 D:F, 34430 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Türkiye. +90 212 243 26 33
Date: June 14, 2023
Cuisine: Modern Turkish
Rating: Great mezzes
This was our third dinner in Istanbul.
Turkish tapas in an ancient space.
The menu.
Bread.
Charcoal butter. Quite nice, actually.
A bit more sour than the similar wine the night before.
Tomato salad with grilled fennel. A bit of goat cheese. Nice tomatoes, even for a tomato hater.
Dudi Persian rice. Crunchy pilaf. I liked the crispy onions.
Topik crackers. Crispy crackers with white bean.
Calamarski. Warm calamari.
Vine leaves with cashew sauce.
Tuna kadayif with pomegranate sour mayo. On a thin dough noodle.
Shrimp with black cabbage.
Asparagus with nectarines. Whipped yougurt.
Red mullet with tomato bisque and corn bread. Very strong tomato sauce but mild mullet (which is good).
Lamb’s heart with baked potato. Chewy and medium warm.
Lamb neck meat with figs on aubergine puree. Nice. A bit like Sultan’s delight.
Carrots with za’atar and goat cheese. Good carrots.
Revani with melisa and boza. This semolina cake is a bit like tres leches.
Mint and ricotta cream profiterole. Tangy.
Solid and tasty meal. The flavor blends weren’t perfect, but it was quite good.
