Mimas Balık Restaurant
Karaburun
Mordoğan iskele room facing the sea, the working-village fish counter that yacht trade hasn't reached
Founded 1953 by the Kadagan brothers from Yugoslavia, the peninsula's archetype of stew-pot Anatolian home cooking, still in family hands
İmren has fed Çeşme for seven decades from a single room on İnkılap Caddesi. Founded in 1953 by Abdurrahim and Fadıl Kadagan after the family's migration from Yugoslavia, it remains the peninsula's clearest expression of tencere-yemeği culture: rosto, güveç, papaz yahnisi, patlıcan kebap, artichoke and herb dishes, all rotated daily off a stove rather than a printed menu. The room is plain and the service quick. It is the counterpoint to every chef-led kitchen on the cape, the answer to a London friend who asks where Çeşme's grandmothers actually ate.
Go at 12:30 when the stews come out fresh. Order rosto and papaz yahnisi together with an ot kavurma; finish with a single piece of kadayıf, it was the Kadagan family's original trade.
At a Glance
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Aegean Sea Partial, Marina View
View Quality
Good
Sunset
**** (4/5)
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