Elmacıoğlu İskender

Melikgazi is the most populous of Kayseri's central districts and has long been the city's commercial and craft quarter; its boundaries run from the modern downtown up to the foothills of Mount Erciyes. Ağırnas, the village where the Ottoman empire's best-known architect, Mimar Sinan, was born, now falls within Melikgazi. Kayseri itself sits in the southeast of the Central Anatolian Region at roughly 1,054 metres above sea level, and its name descends from Caesarea, the title the city carried in Roman times; a citadel dating to the Seljuk period still stands at the centre of town. On Millet Caddesi in that district, Elmacıoğlu İskender runs as a restaurant that describes its own kitchen as Mediterranean and Turkish. The tags it has chosen for its listing mix kebab, grilled meat, steak and schnitzel with pasta, salad, sandwiches, chocolate, ice cream and cake, so the menu is not built around one dish alone. Breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner are all served, and a business-lunch option points to steady daytime trade as well as evening covers. The doors open at 8:30 in the morning and stay open until a quarter past ten at night, every day of the week. Payment runs to cash, contactless, bank and credit cards, AMEX and meal vouchers.