The fastest, cheapest, frequently best food on Gaziantep's streets.
Vendors, food trucks and stalls: the cheapest, fastest, frequently best food in Gaziantep.
Dürümcü Recep Usta wraps stewed chickpeas in flatbread in İncili Pınar, and the nohut dürüm is the cheapest full meal in all of central Gaziantep.
TryNohut dürüm
TipAsk for extra pickled chilli in the wrap. It is the standard local correction to the chickpeas.
Muhsinzade rolls liver and mince straight off the charcoal into flatbread in the Gaziantep bazaar, and the counter opens at six in the morning.
TryCiğer dürüm
TipEat it standing at the counter. There is no table service and the bench seats fill fast.
Ciğerci Mustafa threads lamb liver and tail fat onto skewers on Bayramoğlu Sokak, the Gaziantep breakfast that surprises most visitors first.
TryCiğer kebabı
TipOrder onion, parsley and sumac alongside. Locals eat liver with all three, never on its own.
Üçler Kebap Lahmacun bakes Antep-style lahmacun on Zübeyde Hanım Bulvarı, thinner and hotter with isot than the versions sold in Urfa further east.
TryAntep usulü lahmacun
TipTwo pieces per person is normal. Roll them around parsley and eat them straight from the paper.
Özcanlar Pide & Lahmacun Fırını fires pide and sfiha in a stone oven in Kayaönü, a working Gaziantep bakery rather than a stop built for visitors.
TryKıymalı pide
TipSfiha is the smaller open-topped version. Order a mix and eat them in the order they arrive.
Katmerci Zekeriya Usta throws katmer dough over a marble counter in Gaziantep, then bakes it with kaymak and pistachio in a stone oven at the back.
TryFıstıklı katmer
TipKatmer is a breakfast pastry here, not a dessert. Come before ten for the freshest batch.
Metanet Katmer opens at five in the morning beside the Gaziantep grain market, feeding the same crowd that has just eaten beyran across the road.
TryKatmer
TipOrder the simit katmer if the classic sells out. It is the same dough with sesame on top.
Yusuf Ziya rolls burma kadayıf around crushed Antep pistachio in a Gaziantep han on Suburcu Caddesi and sells almost nothing else from the window.
TryFıstıklı burma kadayıf
TipBuy a small box rather than a tray. The syrup sets hard within a day.
Akşam Simit bakes sesame simit and morning pastries in İbrahimli, and unlike most Gaziantep simit counters it sits you down with a full teapot.
TrySimit
TipOrder the katmer alongside the simit if you want the local breakfast in one sitting.
Ali Usta Kebap ve Baklava opens its grill at six in the morning near Karatarla, so kebab counts as street breakfast in this part of Gaziantep.
TryAli Nazik
TipClosed Sundays. Order at the grill window rather than sitting down if you are in a hurry.
Çiğ Köfteci Yuşa Usta kneads bulgur, isot and spice into meat-free çiğ köfte in Değirmiçem, wrapped into Gaziantep wraps twice the usual size.
TryÇiğ köfte dürüm
TipThe bulgur is kneaded without meat, so the wrap is plant-based before anything is added to it.
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