"Inside a Wicker Park strip mall, Cafe Istanbul specializes in wood-grilled fare that skews toward traditional Turkish food. Helmed by a former chef at Roscoe Village’s Turquoise, one of the more unique items is the cag dza kebab. This isn’t a garden variety meat cone, the Reader’s Mike Sula notes. It’s made from lamb stack horizontally and cooked, giving it more of a char than those rotating pieces of meat that are staples at Turkish restaurants. The restaurant, which also has a Lakeview location, is a Jean Banchet Award winner." - Rebecca Holland
