Tolga, who owns the Blue Elephant carwash on Stewart St, takes his neighbour Eric to some of the places nearby where he spends his time when business is slow. At Sahara Café, past the pizza ovens and the cabinets filled with cakes, is a little courtyard with yellow brick walls and old men playing backgammon and drinking coffee. Further up the road the unassuming Beans ‘n’ Leaves café turns out to have it own little courtyard tucked away at the rear, not to mention the best borek in town—delicious Turkish pastries made by the owner’s wife. Eric and Tolga drink gazoz uladag—Turkish lemonade— while they eat and talk, and Eric learns a thing or two about the Ottoman Empire.