Istanbul: Lunch At The Sabanci Museum
Haute Cuisine Maybe?
I was cleaning out some files on the computer today when I came upon this ‘still life’ image. What can this meal be, you may ask? In fact it’s no meal at all, it’s a joke!
Earlier this year, when my mother-in-law was staying with us, I attempted to explain to her just how expensive and small are the courses served at the Sabanci Museum.
To be fair to the Sabanci family the Museum is a great place to visit when you’re in Istanbul, and I for one would also enjoy eating in the restaurant if the portions were a little larger. The trouble is they are ‘haute cuisine’ and really minuscule. When Irem and I visited the museum last year to view the Rodin Exhibition we ate at the Sabanci Museum Restaurant and immediately upon leaving felt obliged to purchase simit from a street vendor! We also visited our friend Sevim‘s marzipan shop and stuffed ourselves with chocolate and badem esmezi.
The courses at the Sabanci Museum are not as small as the image above, but be warned they may not be as sustaining as you might wish. They certainly weren’t when we ‘ate’ there.
Kindly note: Simit is a quoit shaped Turkish bread and badem esmezi is marzipan.
