Blu Mediterranean

Mucver, or zucchini pancakes, are pan fried with dill, parsley eggs and flour and served with garlic yogurt sauce at Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon.

Blu Mediterranean, at 691 Rte. 109, West Babylon, is in the same spot as a previous Turkish restaurant, Ala Turca.

The spruced up dining room of Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon is furnished with upholstered tiger-maple chairs and Turkish tiles. 

At Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon, an appetizer sampler platter, served with bread, includes eggplant with tomato sauce; bean salad, and haydari, a yogurt seasoned with mint, garlic and dill.

At Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon, kunefe is shredded phyllo dough filled with mild cheese, soaked in syrup and dusted with ground pistachios.

The mixed grilled platter features lamb Adana kebab, chicken shish, lamb shish and lamb chops served with rice and a salad over pieces of lavash bread at Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon.

Manti, tiny dumplings filled with ground lamb and topped with yogurt sauce, served at Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon.

Adana kebabs, named for the city of their origin, are made with chopped lamb mixed with peppers both sweet and hot. 

Arnavut cigeri, fried cubes of lamb, is served with a salad of onion and parsley at Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon.

Beyti kebab, a specialty at Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon, is a lamb Adana kebab wrapped in lavash and served with tomato sauce and yogurt.

Baklava is soaked in sweet syrup and dusted with crushed pistachios at Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon.

Chef Ibrahim Yilmaz cooks chicken and lamb shish kebabs and lamb adana kebabs over a wood charcoal fire grill in the kitchen of Blu Mediterranean in West Babylon.