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2nd Photo Competition: Time to Pick a Winner
With the submission period now over, it’s time to choose the winners of our 2nd photo competition, which focused on portraits and images of people working in the food business. The Istanbul Eats editorial team is going to choose winners from among the finalists in both the Turkey and international images groups, but we also want to give our readers a chance to vote for their favorite photos.
To do that, we’ve set up two Flickr photostreams where you can see the finalists:
International Portraits
www.flickr.com/photos/istanbul_eats
Turkey Portraits
www.flickr.com/photos/istanbuleats
After you’ve taken a look at the photos, decide which one you like best from each group and send your vote to istanbuleats3@gmail.com (please only vote once). Voting will be open for one week, so you have until Tuesday, May 18 to vote.We will announce the winners soon after.
Good luck to all the contestants and let the voting begin!
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no responses - Posted 05.11.10
Those who tried to visit this site yesterday might have noticed some strange things going on. Turns out we had been hacked. Visitors (PC users only, it seems) were being redirected to a particularly malicious site that could possibly infect their computer with a virus. It appears that the problem started ...continue
1 response - Posted 05.07.10
Hidrellez, the traditional spring festival celebrated with so much gusto by the Roma communities of Istanbul, is upon us. Impromtu battles of the fiddlers, fire dancing, grill smoke and canned beer surely filled the streets of Ahirkapi, a historic Roma neighborhood near Sultanahmet that’s home to an annual Hidrellez blowout ...continue
5 responses - Posted 04.19.10
Spring is upon us, which means that it's time to go hunting for restaurants that serve keme, an elusive fungus with a beguiling taste that we've dubbed the "Mesopotamian Truffle." Impossible to cultivate and with a season that spans only a few weeks, this specialty of southeast Turkey is worth seeking ...continue
3 responses - Posted 04.12.10
Welcome to the second Istanbul Eats photo competition! We were absolutely delighted with both the entries and the enthusiasm with which everyone approached our last competition, so we felt that with a new year it's time we organized another opportunity for you to compete once more. This time we're looking for a ...continue
no responses - Posted 04.10.10
We sat down the other day at Ficcin, an Istanbul Eats favorite, for an interview with the Turkish daily Milliyet to talk about how we got started and some of our favorite places to eat in Istanbul. You can read the article (in Turkish) here. continue
2 responses - Posted 04.01.10
It is no coincidence that today, April 1, Istanbul Eats celebrates its one-year anniversary. When our site went active one year ago with our first post, a review of Beyoğlu greasy spoon Lades 2, we thought, "Well, if this site never takes off, we can describe the whole thing as ...continue
4 responses - Posted 03.30.10
A disturbing piece of news that ran in Sunday's Hurriyet Daily News just caught our eye. It turns out a fiendish company in Germany has come up with a robotic device that slices döner, potentially putting an untold number of dönerci's (those would be human döner slicers) out of work. ...continue
no responses - Posted 03.17.10
After almost a year of reviewing restaurants in English, we’re happy to announce that our reviews are now also available in Turkish. We’ll be updating the Turkish site (istanbuleats.com/tr) constantly with new reviews and classics from the Istanbul Eats archives. While our particular brand of humor may not always work ...continue
no responses - Posted 03.14.10
The English-language daily Today's Zaman has an article up that takes a look at some of the restaurants in Istanbul serving food from other regions in Turkey. The article (addresses included, for a change), offers some good tips on where to find food from the Black Sea and southeast regions ...continue
2 responses - Posted 03.10.10
Turkey’s EU accession talks have raised a lot of important questions on reform, accompanied by predictable growing pains. But the latest news from Ankara, which can be read in Turkish in this article in the daily Radikal newspaper, makes us more than a bit uncomfortable. According to the article, Turkey’s food ...continue