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Occupying the first spot is Turkey's Iskender kebap, which is named after a butcher called Iskender Efendi, who first prepared this delicious dish
Don’t miss the four cylinders of meat spinning in the window
Better hurry before everyone finds out about this gem!
I started out thinking I’d be writing about Mayfair and next-to-it Fordsburg, about the Turkish places I knew and am revisiting, especially. Then I realised my Turkish breakfast place that was in Braamfontein has moved to Greenside. Oh and while there, I thought I’d visit a newish place that opened just before Covid, in the Emmarentia part of Greenside, to check out their pide bread, something of a favourite of mine. I’ve even made it, rather desperately, at times. Pide is a boat-shaped piece of olive-oily flatbread dough. The inside of the boat is typically filled with ground lamb mi...