EGG WITH CHEDDAR AND PASTRAMI

Pastırmalı yumurta is the top of our breakfast range. Grilled pastırma goes over butter-cooked eggs and melted cheddar.

Pastırma is meat cured in çemen and air-dried; unlike sucuk it is not spiced and fatty but drier and more intensely salted. We keep it on the grill only briefly — overcook it and it turns tough while the çemen sharpens. Done right, it should carry alongside the softness of the egg. It comes with kapya pepper, cucumber, olives and cherry tomatoes.

It is the most expensive breakfast item on the menu because of the ingredient itself; pastırma is costly by weight. If you want a more economical breakfast, look at the plain egg and cheddar version.