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Serves meat, vegan options available. Family-run restaurant with vegetarian/vegan choices for most dishes. Featured in Lonely Planet for the restaurant and cooking classes. Offers kebap, savoury and sweet gozleme, borek, hummus, aubergine salad, sautéed vegetables and more. Open Mon-Sun 7:00am-11:00pm.


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11 Reviews

First Review by zuendy

zsanett0820

Points +1094

Vegan
28 Dec 2024

I literally escaped from this place!

Wanted to eat here this afternoon. Luckily no one was there, so before I had to order, I could just escape. I am wondering how this place has these good ratings. Everything seemed dirty, the chair I wanted to sit on was extremely filthy. I also touched the menu card, it was literally sticky. I don't recommend this place to anyone!

Forager

Points +348

Vegan
08 Nov 2024

Loads of vegan options and kind owner

This is a great little spot with loads of vegan options. Very kind owner, too.

Pros: Food, Ownership

siscoombs

Points +1268

Vegan
25 Aug 2024

Love this place

The family are lovely who run this restaurant. They understood what vegan is and told us what could be made vegan, we tried the vine leaves (our favourite), lentil soup, mushroom gozeleme and the salad. Everything really nice and reasonable prices for Goreme.

GeorgeJones

Points +75

Vegan
02 May 2024

Favourite place in Goreme

We struggled to get good food at a reasonable price in Goreme. This place was our favourite, unlike a lot of places here that charge crazy amounts, this place has good vegan options (as others have said - we had lentil soup, vegan kebab and gozleme) that we really enjoyed and at a really good price. Super friendly staff too. No vegan baklava so don't get your hopes up there!

Pros: Cheap, Tasty , Friendly

ChantalPoulin

Points +2898

Vegan
26 Apr 2024

Friendly and tasty

I went twice and it was tasty and they were very friendly. You can ask to change the gozleme to put what you want and the coffee is very good. I suggest a gozleme with spinach, oignons and potatos. The price are low.

HannahEichler

Points +511

Vegan
20 Apr 2024

Extremely friendly family

Ate here multiple times and always greeted with a smile.
The vegetarian kebab is accidentally vegan and was different each time I ordered it but always tasty. The lentil soup was great, the hummus was tasty (served with a loaf of white bread).
Do recommend.

They also have a hostel attached to the cafe.

NoelSpring

Points +90

Vegan
28 Sep 2022

Not great

I came here for lunch and ordered lentil soup and hummus. I did not see the clay pots on the menu or some of the other options other reviews have mentioned. Maybe the menu changed?
Lentil soup was quite tasteless, I added a lot of salt and pepper to give it some sort of flavor. The hummus was also not excellent, but passable. Served with loaf of white bread.
The food filled me up, but it really wasn't great. Maybe I missed something?

Lukes690

Points +22

Vegan
12 Sep 2022

Awesome cheap vegan food

100% recommend!
The vegetarian kabab, Safak special (gozleme), lentil soup and hummus was our daily lunch/dinner honestly it’s all made well and bread seems fresh daily.
Friendly staff however not the biggest English speakers.
This was all together around 200-250L plus drinks.

IuliaNOTLulia

Points +6555

Vegan
03 Sep 2022

They try to accommodate vegans

Not super tasty food (again, it’s made for tourists rather than local way).

We tried the breakfast and ask to have it vegan (except for omlette for my non vegan boyfriend). As you can see, she tried her best, which is important for us.

She speaks little English and tries to help vegans.

Commission for card is 10 TL for each 100 TL

Pros: Lovely owner

Cons: Cash only (or commission for card)

hungarianvegan

Points +501

Vegan
27 Aug 2022

Vegan gözleme, kebab & baklava

They have vegan gözleme and kebab. The baklava is also vegan, that’s why we chose this place.

The kebab could use a souce, other than that it was tasty. The gözleme and the baklava were very good as well.

About the price: we paid 395TL for two gözlemes, a vegetarian plate (it can be veganized), a kebab, a big bottle of water, a mug of tea and one portion of baklava.

zuendy

Points +4331

Vegan
23 Aug 2022

Delicious vegan food 😋

Friendly stuff and create vegan options for food. We had a good breakfast and dinner there. We got vegan Gözleme with eggplant, zucchini, pepper. Also homemade hummus and hummus soup. Two different salads and fries. Pomegranate juice fresh pressed.... Mmmhhh...

Highly recommend!

Pros: Many vegan options possible, Pomegranate juice fresh , Friendly stuff




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