Bosforo

Bosforo - Review - Normal Heights - San Diego - The Infatuation

"For the best Turkish food in San Diego, go to Normal Heights and look for the black art deco building that sort of looks like a tuxedo. There’s a massive wood-fire oven by the entrance, which is your first hint that Bosforo is as much about the pizza as it is meze and more common Turkish dishes like kebaps. Our favorite pizza is the El Turco, with goaty cheese curds and crumbles of sucuk, which is like a drier, earthier Turkish version of chorizo. And the dumpling-like içli köfte is a must-order, equally as fun to cut into as it is to actually eat, with the gently fried shell giving way to a savory meat mixture that spills out into yogurt so finely strained it almost tastes like cream. After you fill up on carbs and meat, stay late into the evening sipping anise-y beylerbeyi rakıas the cooks flash two-handled mincing knives to prepare the restaurant’s namesake herby beef bosforo kebaps." - Stephen Mackintosh