All across Turkey you will be treated to the same breakfast - freshly baked sesame-coated simit bread rounds, a fruit jam and white cheese, a mezze platter ... Often termed Turkish bagels, simit ...

For his second act, John Yardim decided to tone down the Turkish. His new East Setauket eatery, Mezze Mediterranean, has a Turkish soul, but a crowd-pleasing pan-Mediterranean surface. In 2023 ...