Drinks and sweets from across the old Silk Road — brewed the way they're made at home, from Kabul and Tehran to Istanbul and Lahore.
Bir çayhanede çay, buluşmanın sebebidir. Bizimki demlikte demlenir, bütün öğleden sonra ikram edilir.
Whole-leaf green tea with green cardamom — the everyday tea of Afghan homes.
Robust black tea with cardamom, sweetened to taste.
Himalayan-style pink salted milk tea topped with clotted cream and pistachio — a wedding-day favorite.
Black tea kissed with saffron, served with rock-sugar nabat.
Kashmiri green tea with saffron, cardamom, cinnamon and slivered almonds.
Strong spiced milk tea, boiled the Pakistani doodh-patti way.
Black tea steeped in a double pot, served in a tulip glass.
Maghrebi-style green tea with spearmint and sugar.
Osmanlı dünyasının ilk kahvehanelerinden modern bara.
Finely ground, simmered in a cezve, served with Turkish delight. Add cardamom.
Lightly roasted and cardamom-forward, poured from a dallah with a date.
Espresso, steamed milk, saffron and a whisper of rosewater.
Espresso and cardamom-spiced steamed milk.
Classic bar coffee, done right.
Şerbetler — meyve ve çiçek şurupları — bölgeyi yüzyıllardır serinletir.
Chilled savory yogurt drink with mint and a pinch of salt — the Afghan-Persian answer to a hot day.
Turkish salted yogurt drink, whisked frothy.
Persian mint-and-vinegar syrup over ice with cucumber.
House lemonade with rosewater and a thread of saffron.
Persian rosewater sorbet with thin vermicelli and lime.
Sweet Pakistani yogurt drink blended with ripe mango.
Sweet-tart tamarind cooler.
Her çayhanenin en güzel yanı — ikinci demlik eşliğinde paylaşılacak tatlılar.
Layered filo with pistachio or walnut in honeyed syrup.
Afghan "elephant ear" — fried thin, dusted with cardamom sugar and pistachio.
Afghan milk-and-cardamom fudge with walnuts.
Saffron-syrup sweets, crisp and golden — a Ramadan classic.
Persian almond-and-cinnamon filled pastry, fried and sugared.
Isfahani nougat and saffron-pistachio brittle.
Shredded pastry over molten cheese in orange-blossom syrup.
Delicate rice-flour and cardamom cookies.
Rose, pomegranate and pistachio.
Tatlıyı dengelemek için sıcacık bir şeyler.
Afghan griddled flatbread stuffed with leek or potato, with mint chutney.
Crisp pastry with spiced potato or beef.
Turkish filo rolls with feta and herbs.
Sesame-crusted Turkish bread ring, with cheese.
A starter menu — selections and prices are a draft to refine together. Seasonal specials rotate with the calendar and the harvest.