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Çiğköftem
Çiğköftem is a Turkish fast food chain and franchise that mainly sells vegan çiğ köfte. The chain also sells products with cow's milk dairy and is overall certified with the vegetarian V-Label. In 2020, the brand encompassed around 130 restaurants. The company that operates Çiğköftem, EM Group, was founded in 1993 in Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ... by brothers Erdoğan, Ahmet and Yavuz Güner.{{Cite web, title=Kurumsal - Çiğköftem, url=https://www.cigkoftem.com/kurumsal/3/tarihcemiz, access-date=2021-04-08, website=www.cigkoftem.com, language=tr It started as a supplier of çiğ köfte for supermarkets, and opened the first Çiğköftem restaurant in 2005. The chain opened its first branch outside Turkey in 2009 in Belgium and, as of 2021, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegetarian Restaurants
This is an incomplete list of vegetarian and vegan restaurants. Vegetarian cuisine refers to food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products. For lacto-ovo vegetarianism (the most common type of vegetarianism in the Western world), eggs and dairy products such as milk and cheese are permitted. For lacto vegetarianism, the earliest known type of vegetarianism (recorded in India), dairy products are permitted, but eggs are not. The strictest forms of vegetarianism are veganism, raw veganism, and fruitarianism, which exclude all animal products, including dairy products, as well as eggs and even some refined sugars if filtered and whitened with bone char. Notable vegetarian restaurants * Adyar Ananda Bhavan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Kenya, and United States * Alice, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada * Annalakshmi, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore and India * Bloodroot, Bridgeport, Connecticut, US * Café Gratitude, five locations, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
çiğ Köfte
Çiğ köfte () or chee kofta is a kofta dish that is a regional specialty of southeastern Anatolia in Urfa. The dish is served as an appetizer or meze, and it is closely related with '' kibbeh nayyeh'' from Levantine cuisine. ''Çiğ köfte'' is common to both Turkish and Armenian cuisine. Traditionally made with raw meat, there are vegetarian variations made with bulgur and in Urfa, a local meatless version is made with scrambled eggs. In Şanlıurfa province, locally prepared batches are sold by street vendors. In 2008 public sales of çiğ köfte with raw meat were banned by the Health Ministry of Turkey due to health hazards, especially taeniasis, thus leaving only plant-based versions in shops and restaurants. Etymology In Turkish, ''çiğ'' means "raw" and ''köfte'' means meatball. The word ''köfte'' derives from Persian, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root "*(s)kop–" (grind, pound, beaten). In Aramaic, the indigenous language of Edessa, it is called ܐ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
