Turkey’s most reliable crowd-pleaser: thin pastry, salty white cheese, hot oil, thirty seconds of patience before you burn your mouth anyway.

What is sigara böreği (fried cheese rolls)?

These are sigara böreği — literally “cigarette pastries”, named for their shape. A sheet of thin yufka pastry is spread with crumbled white cheese and chopped parsley, rolled tight, and deep-fried until the outside blisters and shatters. They appear at every Turkish celebration, at breakfast tables, and on meze plates. Nobody in Turkey eats just one.

How we prepare it at Anatolia Grill

We roll ours by hand and fry them to order, never in advance — a börek that has been sitting under a lamp is a different and much sadder food. The filling is white cheese with fresh parsley, seasoned lightly so the cheese stays the point. Six rolls for 109 CZK, which also makes this the cheapest way to start a meal here.

Take it home from Anatolia Meat Market

The white cheese we use, and the yufka pastry sheets these are rolled from, are both sold at the Anatolia Meat Market next door. They are genuinely easy to make at home once you have the right pastry — the rolling takes ten minutes and the frying takes two.

From our own farm, not from a supplier

Anatolia Grill is part of Agro Řeřichy s.r.o., a Czech company that has been working in agriculture, meat processing and gastronomy for more than ten years. We breed our own lambs and fatten our own beef cattle at the farm in Rakovník, process them in our own slaughterhouse, and sell them in our own butchery in Prague — the shop right next to this restaurant. That is the reason the meat on your plate is traceable back to a single chain we control from start to finish.

Fried Cheese Rolls on our menu

• Dish: Fried Cheese Rolls
• Menu section: Breakfast
• Price: 109 CZK
• Allergens: A, G — see the allergen key printed on our menu

Frequently asked questions

Where can I eat sigara böreği in Prague?

At Anatolia Grill Restaurant on Na Poříčí, Praha 1 — fried to order, every day from 08:00 to midnight.

Are fried cheese rolls vegetarian?

Yes. They contain white cheese, parsley and wheat pastry, with no meat.

Can I order them as a starter rather than at breakfast?

Yes. They are on the breakfast section of the menu but the kitchen makes them at any hour, and they work well alongside our mezes.

Where can I buy yufka pastry in Prague?

At the Anatolia Meat Market next door to the restaurant, along with the white cheese for the filling.

Visit Anatolia Grill Restaurant

We are on Na Poříčí, a few minutes’ walk from Náměstí Republiky, in the centre of Prague. The kitchen is open every day from 08:00 to 00:00, so breakfast, a late lunch and a midnight plate are all on the table.

• Address: Na Poříčí 1933/36, 110 00 Praha 1 – Nové Město
• Open: every day, 08:00 – 00:00
• Restaurant: +420 777 946 662  |  Meat Market: +420 727 974 844

See the full Anatolia Grill menu, book a table by phone, visit the Anatolia Meat Market next door, or order online for delivery and pickup.