Restaurant - Urgup, Turkey
Ok, I know I am a bit late in starting the food blog being as we have already covered all of Europe (which does have some great food) and are halfway through Turkey. But there is some sort of lame logic that I have other then simple lazyness. All the area covered so far was to places I had already been were I was simply reacquainting myself with previous taste highlights. Anyway, enough of that and on to the first review.
Hitched a ride on Calypso into Urgup. Most people were going for the carpet shop (or more likely for the free Pide on offer at the carpet shop). But my intention was to have Tandir, which is a stew cooked in clay pot wrapped in bread. I suppose it is sort of an early version of a bread bowl soup.
So we headed to a simple restaurant called Kardesler just off the main square where I ordered a Guvec Tandir w/ lamb for 8 lira. The lamb wasn't the nicest, but the flavor in the broth more then made up for that. It was fabulous. A simple stew on a cold day with heaps of flavor - rating out of 10: 8. But of course I still had room for my free pide at the carpet shop. Won't complain about it (as it was free), but it couldn't compare to the tandir.
We also picked up a bottle of local wine (Turasan's Peribaca '06) in a shop. Will let you know how it was once we have opened it.
Better late than never for the food blog! Some of us are hanging on every word about the food ;-).
ReplyDeleteBTW- Domino's has a bunch of new bread bowls with pasta are actually pretty good. Last night I order the chicken alfredo bread bowl. Quality!