Van Breakfast Street
Kahvaltıcılar Sokağı
An entire street of breakfast restaurants, with tables laden with cheeses, honey cream, scrambled eggs with sausage and herb cheese, often praised as Turkey’s most lavish breakfast.
Van breakfast (Van kahvaltısı) is famous for its variety: herb-flavoured Otlu cheese, honey with kaymak cream, muhlama, herb scrambled eggs known as cacık, a Lake Van specialty, olives, jams and freshly baked bread. A single table often holds twenty or thirty small plates. The city-centre breakfast street has dozens of breakfast restaurants and fills with crowds early on weekends. A set breakfast is usually ordered per person and costs about 200–400 lira. Van is also known as Turkey’s breakfast capital, and having a Van breakfast here is a must.
Opening hours
Approx. 07:00–14:00
Nearby sights
- Van Museum
- Old City of Van
- Van Fortress
- Varagavank (Yedi Kilise)
- Van Cat House
- Çavuştepe Castle (Sardurihinili)
- Lake Erçek
- Ayanis Fortress