{"id":65232,"date":"2026-08-20T18:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wat-te-eten-in\/turks-eten\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:43:20","slug":"turks-eten","status":"publish","type":"eatin","link":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wat-te-eten-in\/turks-eten\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish food in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where the textile and shipbuilding industries recruited workers, the oldest Turkish bakeries in the Netherlands now stand.<\/p>\n<h2>Where the community is<\/h2>\n<p>Rotterdam, Enschede, Almelo, Zaandam and The Hague: exactly the cities that recruited in the 1960s. The industries went, the communities stayed.<\/p>\n<h2>The bakery<\/h2>\n<p>Fresh bread, pide, b\u00f6rek and sweets, often from six in the morning. In densely populated districts it is the first place to open.<\/p>\n<h2>The grill houses<\/h2>\n<p>Lamb chops, adana, iskender and lahmacun, often in large rooms built for families. Alcohol-free is normal and nobody comments.<\/p>\n<h2>Turkish pizza<\/h2>\n<p>Lahmacun, thin and topped with mince, rolled up with salad and lemon. For many Dutch people the first encounter.<\/p>\n<h2>Tea<\/h2>\n<p>Black tea in tulip glasses after the meal, at no charge. That belongs to the hospitality rather than the bill.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to look<\/h2>\n<p>Rotterdam South, the Schilderswijk in The Hague, and the old industrial towns in the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false},"dish-region":[18893],"class_list":["post-65232","eatin","type-eatin","status-publish","hentry","dish-region-nederland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eatin\/65232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eatin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eatin"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dish-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dish-region?post=65232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}