Turkish Kitchen

With a single and quite nice Fountain Valley location that was notable for its prominent dessert display cases, Turkish Kitchen faced challenges from the very start. The restaurant was a temple to phyllo dough pastries, with multiple choices showing off the possibilities of multi-layered, nut-dusted, honeyed baklavas and similar desserts, as well as a nice collection of Turkish candies. If you like Mediterranean or Middle Eastern sweets, it was almost impossible to go wrong here.

Turkish Kitchen’s desserts still live in our memories as amazing examples of both the basics – multiple forms of baklava and a nice shredded dough kadayif – and the unfamiliar, including the colorful and amazing pomegranate/nut pudding Noah’s Ark. We’ve visited many Orange County bakeries, including most of the well-known ones in Little Arabia, and no one matched Turkish Kitchen’s visual appeal.