Casselberry’s Summit Plaza has a fresh arrival in Café De Wan, a Turkish bakery-café where sisters Habibe Sungun and Esra are rolling out Van-style breakfasts, flaky borek, pide, and paper-thin lahmacun. The compact, bakery-first kitchen leans into flatbreads and pastries because there is no hood for grilling, so skewers and kebabs do not make the cut. Early reviewers have called out the lahmacun’s crackly, wafer-thin base and pointed to a restorative chicken soup as a clear must-order.
As reported by Orlando Weekly, the sisters originally aimed to take over the neighboring Aladdin’s Café and open a kebaberia, but that plan shifted once another operator secured a grill space. The paper notes that during Ramadan, Café De Wan offered an iftar menu that started with soup, and that diners responded warmly to the homey chicken broth.
What to order
Menu listings on Postmates show a Turkish-style breakfast at around $25, borek at about $6, lahmacun near $8, and pide in the $12 to $14 range. The takeout listing also features simit and poğaça, and it confirms daytime hours plus pickup options aimed squarely at the breakfast and lunch crowd.
Bakery-first kitchen
Without a hood, Café De Wan relies on a double-deck countertop oven for almost everything, turning out crisp lahmacun and boat-shaped pide instead of charcoal-kissed skewers, according to Orlando Weekly. Owner Esra told the paper, “You should try this in the morning after it’s freshly baked,” and the sisters’ hope of adding grilled meats hit a snag once Flafel Spot opened a counter with a grill at a nearby Marathon gas station…