Istanbul Modern, Autumn 10 Course

It's the palace and the countryside, the business capital and the cultural capital. It's a little Turkish, a little Greek, Armenian, Jewish, Arabic and Persian. It's Istanbul Modern. We tell the story.

Here's one of the 10 courses on the menu:

Ninkasi okroshka with smoked trout

We often emphasize that our cuisine derives from the area influenced by the Ottoman Turks. Ninkasi is the Sumerian goddess of beer, okroshka is a cold soup made in Ukraine with kvass (yeasted bread stock) and kefir. We take these two ideas and turn them into a fermented proto-beer, which we use as the broth we serve with house-smoked trout.