Konya Etliekmek

Meter-long Konya flatbread from a family oven; De Baarsjes' best cheap lunch.

Etli ekmek is what lahmacun wants to be when it grows up: a metre of blistered, paper-thin Konya flatbread with spiced minced lamb baked straight into it, folded down the counter towards you like something structural. Ali and his family have been running this glass-fronted spot near the Kostverlorenvaart bridge since 2017, and the ordering system is charmingly analogue, there is literally a 'bestellijn' painted on the window. Everything comes out of the stone oven: pide with cheese and egg, proper doner they slice themselves, soups that taste like someone's actual mother is involved. The room is functional, the prices are from another decade, and the etli ekmek arrives so long it hangs off both ends of the board. Skip the sad bakery chains on Kinkerstraat and walk the extra five minutes. Closed Mondays, like all honest businesses.

Order the classic etli ekmek with a glass of ayran and eat it while it's still crackling.