Simit Sarayı in London
Nihan Uğurlu · Keyfi Yazılarım ·
Travel memories from 2015. Hours and prices may change; check official links before visiting.
Personal travel notes, discoveries along the way and photographs from the original story.
Travel notes
Simit Sarayı, right in the heart of London, on Oxford Street! You cannot imagine how happy I was. It made me proud, and if, like us, you have been missing simit for a long time, finding it feels rather like finding water in the desert 🙂 Congratulations to Simit Sarayı, truly!
We were completely overwhelmed when we walked in. Should we have börek? We were definitely having simit, but which kind: with tomato and cheese, or plain? 🙂 After all that deliberation, we ended up sitting down with a table full of food 🙂
Simit Sarayı on Oxford Street
I cannot tell you how much I had missed it. The place was nicely busy, too. We really ought to introduce more people to these wonderful flavours of ours. Here, I see Indian, Thai and Chinese food everywhere. In my view, England's food scene has become a mixture of all these cuisines. Yet we have so many delicious dishes: kebabs, pide, lahmacun, döner, çiğ köfte, vegetables cooked in olive oil, and desserts such as baklava, künefe and güllaç, to name just a few. Sadly, I don't think we promote them enough, and many people don't know them. To me, Turkish cuisine has so much more to offer than even those well-known cuisines. I hope many more places like Simit Sarayı open. I really applaud their success and hope they keep expanding 🙂
