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About Us

Sam's Kitchen has been creating Bay of Plenty's finest quality Mediterranean food specialities in Rotorua for over 10 years under the trade name "Kebab Diner".

And now, for the very first time, we are making these same top quality food products available to restaurants and select retail food outlets throughout New Zealand. This will enable the public to enjoy our specialities at their favorite local restaurant or purchase them from a limited number of food retailers for their own home cooking and special occasion parties.

How "Sam's Kitchen" began

The story of the popular and delicious food created in SAM'S KITCHEN goes back many years to where I grew up around food & master chefs in my parents' popular restaurants in Ankara, Turkey.

My parents were the perfect combination for opening their own bakery/deli/restaurant. My Hungarian mother grew up with a love and passion for food, and my Turkish father was a lover of fine baking and cooking.

In time they opened a second restaurant, called the "Ali Baba", that was famous in Ankara for 20 years and employed chefs and bakers from many regions of Turkey.

Growing up as a child in this environment gave me the opportunity to get to know and observe chefs from all over Turkey. It's no wonder that I developed a love and ability to create unique tasting Turkish dishes that has made my SAM'S KITCHEN* brand so popular with both residents and tourists in Rotorua.

In addition to creating delicious food specialities, I have also been in business designing and setting up Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Persian and Turkish restaurants and commercial kitchens all over Australia and New Zealand.

What makes my "Sam's Kitchen" food creations better than others?

SAM'S KITCHEN uses only the best quality ingredients, combine them using my time proven and perfected recipes and then snap freeze them to seal in their superior taste and nutritional benefits.

SAM'S KITCHEN —

  • uses only the best quality ingredients
  • time proven and perfected recipes
  • snap freezing superior taste and nutritional benefits

Why are my "Sam's Kitchen" products so healthy to eat?

All my products are preservative and gluten free. Just fresh natural ingredients and herbs & spices. MSG and taste additives are never even allowed in my kitchen!

Lentils are a great source of cholesterol lowering fibre and are of special benefit in managing blood sugar disorders since their high fibre content prevents blood sugar levels from rising rapidly after a meal. They also provide excellent sources of 6 important minerals, B2-vitamins, and protein. All this with virtually no fat! Just 230 calories for a whole cup of cooked lentils. This tiny nutritional giant fills you up, not out.

You can get these important benefits in both my delicious Lentil soup and Tabouley.

* T/A KEBAB DINER, ROTORUA

 

Comments from our Happy Fans

I was so happy to discover Sam's falafels after eating at several other Turkish and Lebanese places in town. He's the only one in town who makes his very own falafels for his rolled sandwiches and platters. After having Sam's falafels the others seemed like spiced up dry sawdust! I fact, come to think of it, maybe they were.

R.U., Rotorua

I'm not a fan of peas of any kind but one time you offered me a taste sample of your Lentil soup and I was converted over to loving your soup. It's fantastic. But Sam, I still hate peas.

R.P., Hamurana

I threw a small dinner party picnic and asked Sam to make up several platters of his marinated chicken rolls, sliced up like little sliced sushi rolls. All 8 guests were amazed how tasty the chicken was. I only wish I could have lied and claimed it all my own delicious creation, but I gave all the credit to Sam. He now has 8 new fans of his chicken dishes.

P.N., Ngongotaha

Hey man, awesome soup! I could never hack my Mum's Lentil soup back home, but yours is way out there. Maybe I should give her a few litres of your soup for Mother's Day. Cool cooking, dude!

B.E., Hillcrest

My kids are real picky eaters but at your place they eat everything on your mixed platters, especially your tasty falafels. Well, to be honest they don't eat the olives you serve on the side. But the amazing thing is they each asked to have their own bowl of soup after tasting the Lentil soup I was eating. Good going Sam. Thanks for being in Rotorua.

M.R. & family, Rotorua

Sam, I come to Rotorua once a week on business so that's why I only order your Falafel rolls and your soup on Mondays. You'd see me a lot more often if I ever get transferred to Rotorua. Have you ever considered moving to Cambridge? You'd see me more often if you did.

N.W., Cambridge