It's a ballsy move to only have one item on your menu. Do it right and you'll never be in need of customers. Do it wrong - well you'll be closing up shop in no time. On our food tour of Istanbul, our guide (Yelp Istanbul CM Gulfem) took us to one such place for dinner - Iskender Kebab. Ask for a menu here (as we naïve tourists did) and they will just look at you and laugh.
As the name suggests, the sole dish on the menu is the Iskender kebab - a plate of sliced grilled meat served on a flat spongy bread and doused in melted butter. It's not healthy by any means - in fact it's about as far from it as you can get - but the taste is spectacular. And for about 30TL (£10) including a drink, you can't really ask for a better deal.
The meat was tender yet had a good sear with just a hint of char. The spongy bread absorbed both the meat's juices and the melted butter with ease and may have been even tastier than the meat itself. I could have done without the tomato rice but the grilled mild chilli peppers were wonderful as were the refreshing chunks of tomato.
Afterwards, for dessert there is this awesome little sorbet shop down the street with the freshest, juiciest sorbets you'll ever try. They make them in house and change the flavours based on whatever is seasonally available - it doesn't get much better than that! read more