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Snug but cozy TUCKED INTO A NARROW SPACE, ANATOLIAN KITCHEN SERVES TRADITIONAL TURKISH CUISINE WITH WARM AMBIANCE By Dale F. Bentson
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t’s an awkward space for a restaurant. Longish and narrow, the space at 2323 Birch St. in Palo Alto can verge on chaotic when busy, with servers doing quick sidesteps to allow patrons to pass. Anyone heading for the aft restroom can easily create a bottleneck. Yet, that’s dampened neither the enthusiasm nor the quality of food at Anatolian Kitchen, the successor to the space most recently occupied by Oaxacan Kitchen. Before Oaxacan Kitch-
en, the place was a lighting store; thus the inefficiency. It wasn’t built to house restaurants. Open since October, Anatolian Kitchen was the dream of Dino Tekdemir. A native of Diyarbakir, Turkey, he worked in Bay Area eateries for a decade before taking the entrepreneurial plunge. “My goal was always to own my own restaurant,� Tekdemir said. Brother and chef Sahan came in 2007 to get up to speed on the vagaries of being a California restaurateur. Today, the two manage
VIVIAN WONG.
Anatolian Kitchen’s piyas mixes white beans with red onion, red and green bell pepper and parsley.
See ANATOLIAN, page 14
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Veal Sweet Breads
$22.95
Lobster Bisque $9.25
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Dinner 5:30-9:30pm
Ph: 650-964-3321
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