4.7 ·
Discover Araf İstanbul, the Michelin-starred Asian-side restaurant where open-fire cooking takes centre stage. Sit down for a dinner of flame-cooked dishes and carefully prepared offal in a trendy, intimate setting.
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Araf İstanbul is a Michelin-starred dinner restaurant on the Asian side of the city, where cooking over open flame is the defining technique. Reviewers say the fire flavour comes through in every dish and praise the careful treatment of offal, which is cooked so that its original taste stays intact without turning gamey.
The rating of 4.7 across 490 reviews and the expensive price level mark it as a special-occasion dinner. The aesthetic, couple-friendly setting suits an unhurried evening of around 75 minutes at the table.
It opens only for dinner and is closed on Mondays.
Araf İstanbul is a Michelin-starred dinner restaurant on the Asian side of the city, where cooking over open flame is the defining technique. Reviewers say the fire flavour comes through in every dish and praise the careful treatment of offal, which is cooked so that its original taste stays intact without turning gamey.
The rating of 4.7 across 490 reviews and the expensive price level mark it as a special-occasion dinner. The aesthetic, couple-friendly setting suits an unhurried evening of around 75 minutes at the table.
It opens only for dinner and is closed on Mondays.
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One of the top 10 meals of my life. After 10 days of eating dried food with no sauces and lamb that taste gamey, Araf cooks everything so well and handles the original taste of offals so delicately that all these traditional Turkish dishes tasted so good and modern. Top 3 dishes :- 1. Slow Briased Lamb (new dish only…
Marcus Tan
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