Eşlikçi

About Eşlikçi

Eşlikçi is a restaurant on Altınvadi Caddesi in Narlıdere built around cooking over a wood fire. Its name means companion, and its own website frames the whole place around fire, shared tables and conversation, with rakı, beer and wine as the natural companions to the food. Guests can also take one of the 12 seats at the chef's counter beside the open fire. Gault and Millau Türkiye awards Eşlikçi one toque, with a score of 11 out of 20, and lists it under modern cuisine with Can Doğan as executive chef. The guide says the kitchen presents the traditional flavours of the region through modern recipes, with cold and hot meze and salads made with fresh greens picked from gardens. It recommends finishing with the house dessert, Eşlikçi Helva, made with tahini, milk foam, crisp baklava pastry, walnuts and grape molasses. The restaurant's own social media highlights wood-fired kebabs such as a 100 per cent lamb Adana kebab made from knife-chopped meat, served with plain lavaş and an onion salad. It is an evening restaurant suited to long dinners with friends, and booking ahead is sensible given the small chef's counter.