İstanbul · Fatih · Turkey

Meşhur Unkapanı İMÇ Pilavcısı

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Famous IMC Pilavcisi

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easy

8/10

best: lunch

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A local would say...

Rice mountains in a brutalist trade centre — İstanbul's blue-collar lunch ritual since the 1960s

The legendary pilav shop in the brutalist İMÇ trade centre — pilav canavarları (rice monsters) descend at lunch for enormous portions of buttery rice with chickpeas, served by men who've been doing this since before you were born.