"Paris meets Brooklyn in Turkey's historic Cinghair
DANIELLE GROEN
CIHANGIR, ISTANBUL— From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2011 3:57PM EDT
After one of our many breakfasts at Van Kahvalti Evi, co-owner Cetin Simsek brought over a pocket-size Turkish-English dictionary and pieced together a conversation made mostly of unconjugated verbs. “Marry?” he wondered. No, we weren’t married. “Devour!” we cried. He was glad to hear we liked the food. “Sleep?” he asked, gesturing toward Sultanahmet, the district boasting an extraordinary concentration of historic sights and tourist hotels. No, we assured him, we were staying right here in Cihangir. “Ah, Cihangir,” Simsek said, nodding. “Coffee, people, cats.” "
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