August 17, 2010

Lokanta from Locanda

Mavi Boncuk |
Lokanta: A restaurant in Turkey from Italian locanda inn, guest house (offering both food and accomodation). Apart from street food and home cooking the precursor of the Turkish restaurant was the guesthouses that catered to sailors in Istanbul's Galata harbor district. If some kind of a show was part of the eatery it was called a Gazino TR from Italian casino diminutive form of casa (“house”) <>
2. A public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling.
3. brothel

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