Read what the press is saying about Saf Organic Bistro and Martini Bar!
SimonSeeks.com Holiday Reviews & Travel Guides, Feb 2010 
Detox of Delight   
If all that meat and meze has taken the shine from your halo, don’t despair: just go to Saf and polish it back up. Saf – Turkish for pure – serves convincingly tasty vegetarian cuisine with a splash of science. 
     
Veg News, Nov-Dec 2009 
Savoring Saf   
High-end Cuisine, raw food and Americans collide in London's simple authentic eatery. 
     
hayal-akatlar Turkish Daily News, 16 February 2008 
Choose pure food for a pure, healthier life   
Saf restaurant's pure menu of organic, raw, gluten-free, vegan food has joined forces with Hayal Kahve in Akatlar's Sporium to offer customers a diverse culinary experience. Above all the combination is meant to give customers versatility for better eating choices. 
     
pic-sushi   Time Out Istanbul, November 2007 
Saf 
So it says everything for the exceptional quality of the meals on offer at Saf, Turkey’s first vegan/raw-food eaterie, that this non-vegetable-eating, hot-food-loving, keep-it-simple diner came away in raptures from a visit there.
 
     
pic-appletart   Taste Anatolia, October-November 2007 
No heat, no meat   
Until SAF, the best chocolate cake I had tasted was an egg-free, butter-free macrobiotic version. SAF's chocolate marble cheese cake and chocolate ganache torte surpassed that. 
     
Gusto March 2007   Time Out Istanbul, March 2007 
SAF  
Istanbul's first pure vegetarian restaurant opened its pristine doors at the cusp of the new year. Pure or saf in Turkish, in this case means organic, vegan and raw. A concept allready established in America (in fact, Saf's owner and chef Chad Sarno is American), the idea behind the raw diet is not to cook any ingredient above the magic number of 48 °C so tat all nutrients, namely enzymes, remain intact. 
Turkish DN 16.03.2007   Turkish Daily News, March 16, 2007  
A 'purely' blissful experience!  
Walking into the Saf (pure) Restaurant in Tünel, Beyoğlu one feels an air of lightness and ease. Perhaps it's due to the cozy, welcoming atmosphere or that it is Istanbul's first organic, vegan bistro and wine & martini bar. Or it might also be the fact that the entire bistro is a smoke free environment. 
Today's Zaman 05.02.2007 Today's Zaman, February 5, 2007  
Haute, not hot: SAF Eco-Bistro & Organic Martini Bar  
Forget whatever austere images come to mind when you think vegan, raw, organic. We're not talking carrot sticks. Quite the contrary. At SAF, the first of an international chain of organic bistros, the cuisine may not be hot, but it is most certainly haute… 
Timeout September 2007 Time Out Istanbul, September 2006  
My Name is Chad Sarno  
Jennifer Eaton Gökmen talks to Chad Sarno, vegan raw food chef to the stars, about bringing his culinary art form to Turkey. 
     
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