Just when this New Yorker thought she couldn’t get a real slice of home in Istanbul, she discovered Brooklyn Pizza!

We recently came across a new pizza place here called Brooklyn Pizza.  Their motto is “Gercek New York Pizzasi” (Real New York Pizza).  So we were pretty eager last week to go check it out and see for ourselves if it is worthy of having this claim.  

We were pleasantly surprised!  For starters, it is the only place we’ve found that has real NY-sized pizzas.  A large is 18″, a medium is 16″.  Typically what you find here in Istanbul is a large equaling about 9″, so you can imagine our thrill when we saw that on the menu!  And of course we had to order the large.  

 I’ve stopped eating red meat, but Onur’s love for it continues, so we got a 1/2 Etli (meat) and 1/2 Sebzeli (veggie).  SO YUMMY.  The owner who is Turkish but was living in New York for the past 6 years just moved back and opened up the restaurant.  We gave him two thumbs up – the pizza was awesome.  The dough tasted just like NY pizza, not like Turkish pizza crust, it passed the sturdy test – meaning when you hold it by the crust end it stays straight and doesn’t flop from sogginess.  It had just the right amount of pizza sauce (usually lacking in Turkish pizzas) and the toppings were aplenty!   Oh and the size of the slices were exactly how a good NY slice of pizza should be. 

We loved every bite of it!  But unfortunately we couldn’t finish it.  So we gladly took a doggy bag home.  :) 

Thank you to Brooklyn Pizza for bringing a real slice of home to us!  Expect us back real soon!