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A known example of Istanbul Armenian culinary heritage: a cold appetizer filled with tahini, onions, and spices, encased in chickpea and potato skin.
The onion filling should not be watery; the wrap should not be cut before resting in the cold.
Where to eat ↓4 Michelin matches
Taste: richness, spice
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Haydari is made with strained yogurt. If it weeps water on the plate, the yogurt was not strained.
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On a meze table balance beats variety: one yogurt-based, one olive-oil, one sharp is enough.
Nineteenth-century Istanbul
Topik is among the known mezes of Istanbul's Armenian cuisine; it carries the trace of that nineteenth-century period when the dishes of different communities entered the city's shared repertoire. The onion filling with tahini and cinnamon inside a chickpea shell is the refinement of meatless fasting tables.
Source note: Samancı, 19. yüzyıl İstanbul mutfağı
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Venues serving this cuisine, distinguished in the Michelin Guide 2026 selection. An external distinction; not a GustoScore assessment. Full selection