Authentic Homemade Turkish Breakfast Cooking with Local Friends

Experience the authentic Turkish breakfast culture as local friends invite you into their homes to learn how to create a delicious and traditional morning meal.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Hayrullah Efendi Sk. No:19 - The variety in the world keeps us excited to learn more.

When we travel, we eat, and most of us love trying new things and new tastes. Everybody knows that Turkish cuisine is very authentic and nice to experience. However, something in Turkish cuisine comes up uniquely as being very rich: Turkish breakfast.

Traditional Turkish breakfast has many hot meals such as Menemen, Muhlama, Gözleme, Börek, Omlet, and Sucuk (Turkish Pepperoni), as well as cold items such as various cheeses, olives, sauces, vegetables, honey, jams and milk cream (Kaymak).

What makes this experience unique is that we want to introduce Turkish home culture, which comes with great connections and bonds. We want to invite you to our home as our friends, and we want to do this by teaching you how to prepare a homemade Traditional Turkish Breakfast. In other words, we want to show you a typical Turkish morning with a typical Turkish breakfast.

Come to our home, be our guest, and let’s learn, cook, and create together. Come as a guest, leave as a friend!

What's Included
  • Breakfast
Meal Options
  • Menemen - Classic Turkish breakfast item with eggs and vegetables
  • Muhlama - Kuymak - Corn meal and cheese cooked together
  • Eggs with Sucuk - Turkish classic Sausage with eggs
  • Variety of cheese
  • Turkish Cream (Kaymak) and Honey - Typical Turkish Breakfast item
  • Simit - Classic Turkish breakfast pastry
Additional Information

Let’s explore Istanbul’s finest breakfast joints, known for their incredible variety and scrumptious meals. However, we’re eager to share something more personal; we’d like to reveal a slice of our local Turkish lifestyle.

In the same way Turkish families and friends often invite each other over for breakfast and enjoy a morning together, we’d like you to join us in our homes, as our friends. We’re ready to welcome you the Turkish way. We aim to do this by giving you a unique hands-on experience on preparing a traditional Turkish breakfast, thus enabling you to carry a piece of our culture wherever you might go.

Our goal is to encourage cultural exchange - to get to know yours while sharing ours along the way, which sets us apart.

Location
Hayrullah Efendi Sk. No:19
Hayrullah Efendi Sokak
1- Our community has a driver. If you wish a private transfer to the experience location, we will be happy to check the driver's availability. 2- Istanbul has traffic issue. I suggest you use metro, ferry as much as you can. Instructions to the address via public transportation is written on tickets
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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557davef
Jul 18, 2024
Cooking with a sweet soul - What a great way to learn!!! Aysu is one of the sweetest souls that I have ever meet. She is an amazing host and made feel at home in her home. We made delicious breakfast and had amazing conversation. This is definitely an experience you don't want to miss. If you are in Istanbul go learn something new I did. Thank you Aysu and Lokal Bond
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Stardustn2024
May 14, 2024
Smells like börek - Participating in the Authentic Homemade Turkish Breakfast Cooking with Local Friends was a delightful immersion into Turkish culture and cuisine. From the moment we gathered in the kitchen, the atmosphere was filled with warmth and camaraderie as we embarked on our culinary journey. The local friends graciously shared their family recipes and cooking techniques, allowing us to recreate the authentic flavors of a traditional Turkish breakfast. From savory pastries like börek to flavorful cheeses and olives, every dish was a celebration of the rich and diverse culinary heritage of Turkey. The hands-on experience of preparing and enjoying these dishes together fostered a sense of connection and community that transcended language barriers. It was a morning filled with laughter, delicious food, and cherished memories—a true testament to the hospitality and generosity of the Turkish people.
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Ajaylvgupta
Apr 21, 2024
Turkish Cuisine meets Indian Cuisine - Aysu has been a great chef and a wonderful friend.The moment we met her we did not even feel for a second we are meeting her for the first time. She took us so welcomingly to the local markets of Besiktas for buying the groceries for our breakfast while she also elaborated so minutely about various products we were buying for cooking the breakfast. She made the amazing and delicious 😋 turkish breakfast from menemen too ....for us while chit chatting along with us about the delicacies and culture of the Turkish food. She has been one the close bond between us and the lokal bond.She made us feel so homely that due to her we were so comfortable meeting the other family members of lokal bond. We really enjoyed the amazing food with the company of the lokal band group and homely feeling while exchanging thoughts and views about our cultures. We would always recommend lokal bond and Bawer to our friends to feel the touch of Turkish culture whenever they travel to Turkey 😃
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264adeleg
Apr 14, 2024
Everyone should experience this! - We really wanted to immerse ourselves in Turkish culture and step outside the normal tourist experience! We love Turkish food and I love to cook! This was perfect! The tour operator calls it a community and that is exactly how it feels. Before, during and after communication was brilliant, a ride to the experience was organised for us a couple of days prior when we decided it would be tough for us to get there easily early in the day and reached out to them and it was sorted straight away- no problem! The experience itself felt like making new friends, as well as making and enjoying wonderful food! We stayed to chat after as-well and share stories and travel tips! This was an authentic experience that we really enjoyed and everyone should experience this! The tours that lokal bond offer is like no other tour group- to experience real Istanbul with locals! When we return to Istanbul we will definitely be booking about experience with them!
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Michael_f
Apr 13, 2024
Wonderful and Unique Experience - This was a great way to experience a Turkish breakfast and learn how it is made. It was also a great chance to talk to both people who live locally and others who were visiting (and their cat Petra!). It was a very inviting and delicious experience.
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Cheryle_s
Mar 5, 2024
Breakfast in Turkey - Loved the friendly, kind conversations we had with our hosts!! The food was marvelous and authentic, and yummy 😊😊. In addition they were more than helpful with our transportation needs
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534sallal
Feb 27, 2024
Super cool experience - Such a nice experience helping Aysu make some breakfast dishes. She was great host and we had lots of laughs as well! The food was delicious and we enjoyed conversation with whole family. This was top experience we’ve had on our numerous trips to Istanbul.
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Poyanl2023
Dec 28, 2023
The best activity in Turkey - It was an excellent experience. The traditional Turkish breakfast was very delicious. I can still remember the taste of the cheese, honey and everything😋 I was so full and satisfied! The hosts are very nice, such a warm family. Not only did we make breakfast, but also had a nice chat. I would definitely recommend this experience to everyone who will visit Istanbul!
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Z3277nqmatteom
Nov 28, 2023
Turkish breakfast - A great welcoming family where we had a typical Turkish breakfast, very helpful and kind people. Absolutely recommended.
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Tomasz_g
Nov 24, 2023
I wish I have discovered it sooner - My best experience on viator/tripadvisor Hosts were great. Had lots of fun spending time with them talking and cooking. Food is delicious. I can honestly recommend it
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