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Beyoglu
Turkish, Mediterranean $$$$$
1431 3rd Ave. (at 81st St.)
New York , NY 10028
Turkish, Mediterranean $$$$$
1431 3rd Ave. (at 81st St.)
New York , NY 10028
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A hefty, warm slab of thick toasted bread is brought to the table with hummus, which was loaded with garlic but still didn't detract from its full flavor. Grilled Octopus salad/Greek salad-- eh! Nothing atypical there. To note: the red, pepper dip brought alongside the grilled shrimp. Three measly shrimp in one course is nothing to rave about... but the red dip is worth the deficit. Had a very Mediterranean, crushed pepper/salty/oily/wholeness feel to it. Not sure if I would return since Gobo is X st!
RissaRachel 434 days ago
1 reviews
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Beyoglu Finds Simplicity’s Downside
By NYC Nosh Jan 23, 2007
As HungryMan and I sat down to dinner at Beyoglu with our friends Mint and Petrus, we knew it wouldn’t be long before someone mentioned Atatürk. This proved to be true when, not more than two minutes after taking our seats, in the middle of a discussion about pronouncing the names of the dishes, Mint let slip that she had lived for years in Turkey. She explained to us that during Atatürk’s reign, he reformed not just the country’s economy, but its very language, removing irregularities and shifting orthography to a Latin-based system–all in the interest of boosting literacy. The result is modern Turkish, a what-you-see-is-what-you-pronounce language. Beyoglu, named after a ritzy neighborhood in Istanbul, seems to have taken this simplifying passion of Atatürk’s to heart, applying it like a sledgehammer to its menu, where most everything we ate among the six kinds of meze and grilled striped bass we ordered was underseasoned, one-dimensional, or both. FULL REVIEW
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