Pizza restaurant round the corner from the supermarket next door. Really more of a takeaway place although there are a couple of tables in the nondescript room and you could eat there if you had nowhere else to go. Actually you can enter and exit the supermarket through the pizza place and it’s handy to be able to order the pizza first and then pick up what you need from the store while it’s in the oven. Get a bottle of shiraz, having made the happy discovery that there are in fact more of the nice one we bought the first day, just not in the same place.
Just about to open the front door to our apartment building when we see the couple who own Minder, the excellent restaurant with traditional Cypriot cooking, locking up. The restaurant is on the ground floor of our building but has a separate entrance. J tells him that we’re sorry it isn’t open - we go every year. The man is quite serious. They can’t. It’s not safe. They’re over seventy and can’t afford to take the risk. We agree. We too are over seventy and risks are not worth it. He brightens a little though when J says we’ll be there next year and I add Inshallah [literally God willing, and technically Arabic, but widely used in Turkish for things one hopes will happen].
Just about to open the front door to our apartment building when we see the couple who own Minder, the excellent restaurant with traditional Cypriot cooking, locking up. The restaurant is on the ground floor of our building but has a separate entrance. J tells him that we’re sorry it isn’t open - we go every year. The man is quite serious. They can’t. It’s not safe. They’re over seventy and can’t afford to take the risk. We agree. We too are over seventy and risks are not worth it. He brightens a little though when J says we’ll be there next year and I add Inshallah [literally God willing, and technically Arabic, but widely used in Turkish for things one hopes will happen].