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Galata: Simit Baking & Turkish Breakfast Workshop
KitchenBreakfast includedAges 6 and upThree languages

Galata: Simit Baking & Turkish Breakfast Workshop

4.9(158 reviews)Galata (5 min from Galataport), Beyoğlu / İstanbul2 h 30 minUp to 12 people

About this workshop

A workshop that starts early in the morning, alongside the streets of İstanbul waking up to the smell of simit. You begin by learning the right proportions of flour, water, yeast and salt.

While the dough rests you practise the secret of shaping — turning the ring, joining the ends, finding that even simit form. The grape molasses and sesame coating is done the traditional way: the rings are dipped first in molasses water, then generously in sesame.

When your simit comes hot out of the stone oven, we taste them together at a generous Turkish breakfast table laid with cheese, olives, tomatoes, jam and strong tea.

Duration
2 h 30 min
Group
Up to 12
Age
6+
Language
Turkish, English, Russian

What you'll do

  1. 1

    Welcome and dough theory (20 min)

  2. 2

    Preparing and kneading the dough (30 min)

  3. 3

    Shaping and sesame coating (30 min)

  4. 4

    Baking in the stone oven (25 min)

  5. 5

    Breakfast table and tasting (45 min)

What's included

  • All ingredients — flour, yeast, molasses, sesame
  • Professional equipment and use of the stone oven
  • A generous Turkish breakfast
  • Unlimited Turkish tea
  • The simit you bake, to take away
  • Hosted in Turkish, English and Russian

Who it's for

  • Anyone curious about traditional cooking
  • Families — the fun of kneading dough together
  • Travellers wanting flavour and a social memory of İstanbul
  • Corporate teams — private groups of up to 250

Moments from the workshop

Photos and videos from previous sessions.

Past events

Guest reviews

We attended as a company with 40 people. The organisation was flawless and it really brought the team together. The breakfast table was magnificent.
Burak Şen · İzmir
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