Fish served amid mountains of olives and fresh veggies is Kellari Taverna 's specialty.

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She adds coins to the box in his lap, then goes into a taverna and brings out a slice of pizza.

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And the taverna guy every afternoon would come up, wipe the table and tell us how he used to work in London.

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You know, we took out the money and we started counting (mumbles counting sounds), and the taverna owner is looking and he laughs.

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The discounts are not so spectacular in a taverna, however, for cash a better rate on the price of fresh fish is to be had, or desert is free.

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Then Istanbullus realized that they'd been eating one of the world's finest cuisines all along: their own meyhane (taverna) food -- mezes, kebabs, and fresh fish -- to be consumed with raki, preferably in sight of the Bosporus.

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And there's one taverna.

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