Pide Istanbul appears as a signature dish in 1 Turkey cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Pide · Istanbul
Turkish boat-shaped flatbread with toppings of minced lamb, sucuk and egg, pastırma and cheese, or spinach, baked in a wood-fired oven until the dough crisps and the topping bubbles.
Pide is the Turkish flatbread cousin of pizza and Levantine manakish, with documented origins in Black Sea cooking from the 19th century. The boat shape (pide is named for the elongated form) developed in the wood-oven pidecisi shops of Trabzon and Karadeniz, and spread to Istanbul in the 20th century. Tarihi Hocapaşa Pidecisi and Borsam Taşfırın are the city's reference operators, with sucuklu-yumurtalı (sucuk and egg) and kıymalı (minced lamb) the canonical toppings.
Where to eat in Istanbul:
- Tarihi Hocapaşa Pidecisi
- Borsam Taşfırın
- Borsam Taşfırın Kadıköy