Hayvore's display can make you feel that every Black Sea dish must be tried in one meal. Yet butter, cornmeal, cabbage and pulses quickly become heavy together. A good first order opens with soup or vegetables, chooses one strong hot plate and leaves room for anchovies when they are in season.
Check the counter, not a memorised list
In lokanta cooking, the dish that looks best that day can beat the most mentioned item online. Look at the counter, choose two candidates and ask which came out most recently.
Do not count muhlama as a light starter. With bread it is highly filling; follow it with vegetables or seasonal fish rather than another dense carbohydrate.
Lunch for two
One stew, one vegetable and a single regional signature are enough.
Share the soup of the day.
Choose black cabbage or a seasonal vegetable.
Add salad if ordering muhlama.
Ask whether anchovies are in season and how they are cooked.
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