The Turkish Street Serves Breakfast Feasts & Baklava Dreams

At The Turkish Street on North 90 Street at Second New Cairo, feeling arrives warm, layered, and unmistakably Turkish - this kind of comfort is served on a table crowded with small plates, fresh bread, soft cheese, and the promise of something flaky and golden emerging from the kitchen.

The space itself plays along. Sunlight slips through the outdoor seating, the interior glows under pretty gold lanterns, mirrors catch your reflection between plates, and Turkish car plates sit tucked into corners like souvenirs from another city.

The menu reads like the morning markets of Istanbul translated for Cairo appetites. Eggs with sausage, menemen (those softly scrambled eggs with tomatoes and peppers that never disappoint), labneh, halloumi, kashkaval, helva, honey with tahini, and bread in its many, many loyalties. There’s even a Turkish Tray stacked with cheeses, jams, olives, pastries, pancakes, chocolate bread slices, and all the little essentials that make breakfast feel abundant. Or you could always build your own.Simit comes in every mood: plain, chocolate-dipped, stuffed with cheese and vegetables, or paired with egg and sausage. Börek makes an appearance, naturally—crisp, buttery, the kind of pastry you don’t discuss while eating because conversation can wait.

By noon, the savoury side takes the lead. Kumpir, that essential Turkish baked potato, arrives ready to be loaded with jalapeños, olives, corn, red beans, pickles, and whichever sauce feels destined for the moment—Izmir, TTS, cheese, mayo, Taksim. The grills turn out kofta and shish, fish plates come with bread and vegetables, and fries get the full treatment if you insist on upgrading them (you probably will).Desserts in true Turkish fashion hold their own ceremony: pistachio baklava, roll baklava, kunafa, basbousa, pannacotta, Nutella pancakes—sweet things layered, soaked, folded or filled the Turkish way, where generosity is not merely a suggestion.

If you need us, we’ll be somewhere between the menemen and the baklava, rethinking our life choices.