Bosphorus Hasan is a Turkish restaurant that you can reach by walking about 10 minutes from Shinjuku Station from the 3-Chome (sanchome) exit. The restaurant is located in a street that you wouldn’t normally pass by while walking in Shinjuku, so a map is highly recommended to find this restaurant. It is a three-story building painted in red, and Bosphorus Hasan is located on the second floor.
According to the restaurant’s history, Hasan, the founder, came to Japan in 1987 and worked as a chef in the very first Turkish Restaurant. After 5 years working as a chef, Hasan opened his own restaurant so that he could better introduce Turkish dishes in Japan. Bosphorus Hasan in Shinjuku itself was established in 1993. Serving customers for more than 20 years, Bosphorus Hasan said to be one of the oldest Turkish restaurants in town.
Enter the restaurant and you can feel the Turkish atmosphere all around. With the wallpaper, lanterns, and all of the accessories hanging on the wall, you can feel as if you are in a Turkish dining room. You can hear Turkish songs and also see Turkish videos from the television that hangs on the wall in the middle of the restaurant. After neatly taking a seat in a comfortable wooden chair, you can choose all halal dishes from among the menu of many Turkish dishes.
They have a different kind of Turkish paste for an appetizer, plus soup and salad, delicious meat culinary, vegetables, seafood, many kinds of stew, and even Turkish pizza!
One pizza I want to suggest you try is Kiymali Pide. Its shape is different from the usual pizza shape known around the world; it’s rather oval. This is Turkish ground meat pizza. You will know by the smell and the texture that the bread for the pizza is freshly made, and the ground meat in the middle will just melt in your mouth, along with the taste of its rich spices. Very delicious!
If you want to try all of the dishes in this restaurant, you can choose a Course Menu that they offer.
Or if you want just a simple meal, you can choose from their lunch menu that starts from 910 yen for a set of meat dishes (such as doner kebab), bread, soup, dessert, and chai tea. They have a really delicious dessert, some kind of a cake but really soft with the perfect sweetness that you must to try.
What’s more interesting in this restaurant is, you may not realize it at first but the paper under your plate on the table gives some vocabulary in both Japanese and Turkish language! So if you know some Japanese, you can learn Turkish also while reading this paper.
Information
Address: 2F Daiichitama Building 2F, 3-6-11 Sanchome, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 160-0022
From JR Shinjuku Station the walk is about 10 minutes, and from the subway Shinjuku Sanchome Station the walk is about 5 minutes.
Operation Hours:
Lunch : 11:30 - 15:00
Dinner : 17:00 - 23:30
Open every day.
Website: http://bosphorushasan.com/
Map:
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