Okay, Okay. I admit it. Since coming back from my travels, I haven't been bothered to do much actual cooking. Instead I've taken up residence at the pub and have even been scheduling my meetings there. But one does get tired of pub food eventually, so last night we moseyed upstairs of the pub (North Shield) and had dinner at Karadabalık. It's probably the second or third time we've eaten there.

Apparently they get all their fish and produce, etc from Cunda Island daily and they have an interesting assortment of meze that I haven't come across before and really enjoyed, like Levrek Bohça (levrek, salmon, sauce and something else wrapped and broiled), Balık Böreği (yufka filled with levrek, mushrooms, and pistachios), Pazı Sarma filled with seafood filling, Pazı turşusu... and then some salads of odd variety, like Sirke Otu and Kuzu Kulağı. Of course we ate too many meze before the main course even got there.

We had sardalya (sardines) as the main course, which was delicious. Then their chilled, homemade liqueurs for dessert-- pomegranate, raspberry, and orange. The liqueurs were AWESOME, but it was probably a bad idea that they leave the bottles on the table for you to keep pouring for yourself at will.

Out of curiosity we also sampled the ice cream topped with tomato jam, which was not at all what I was expecting (didn't taste very tomato-like. thankfully.)

We're certainly looking forward to eating there again.