Matbah Restaurant Istanbul – A Royal Journey Through Ottoman Cuisine

🥂 Amuse Bouche

• Daily Surprises
  (Günün küçük sürpriz lezzetleri)

🥗 Cold Appetizers

• Stuffed Vine Leaves with Sour Cherries (15th c.)
  Vine leaves with sour cherries, rice, onion, pine nuts – chilled.
• Special Humus (15th c.)
  Chickpea purée with currants, pine nuts, and cinnamon.
• Stuffed Calamari with Shrimp (15th c.)
  Calamari filled with rice, pine nuts, cinnamon, shrimp.
• Stuffed Eggplant (18th c.)
  Whole eggplant stuffed with onion, garlic, tomato – cooked in olive oil.

🥒 Salad

• Yogurt and Cucumber Salad
  Yoghurt, chopped cucumber, fresh mint.

🍷 Wine Pairing

• Pamukkale, Kızıl Alan Öküzgözü
  Carbonic maceration – Denizli (10 cl).

🥣 Soup

• Wheat Soup (14th c.)
  Chickpeas and cracked wheat with yoghurt and garlic – served cold.

🔥 Hot Appetizers

• Sailor’s Roll With Honey (15th c.)
  Fried filo roll with seven cheeses and peas – served with currant honey.
• Arefe Meatball (15th c.)
  Stuffed meatball with minced beef, bulgur, walnuts, spices.

🍖 Main Courses

• Veal Kebab in Fragrant Herbs (15th c.)
  Grilled veal with cinnamon and cumin sauce.
• Lamb Shank with “Begendi” (14th c.)
  Baked lamb on pureed eggplant bed.
• Quail in Garden Eggplant with Basil Sauce (18th c.)
  Quail in eggplant with pepper paste, honey, basil.

🍮 Desserts

• Baklava (14th c.)
  Layers of phyllo, walnuts, butter, and syrup.
• Helatiye (15th c.)
  Rose water pudding with nuts and seasonal fruit.
• Honey Halva (14th c.)
  Roasted flour halva with honey and pistachios.

🍷 Nif Bağları Bornova Misket

• Wine Pairing
  (Izmir)
• (10 cl)

🍷 Pamukkale, Kızıl Alan Karbonik Maserasyon Öküzgözü

• Wine Pairing
  (Denizli)
• (10 cl)

🍷 Likya Araxa, Pinot Meunier

• Wine Pairing
  (Elmalı - Antalya)
• (10 cl)