Davut Selim

1914 Timeline 1926Registration of Davut Selim in the Mardin Chamber of Commerce1937A photograph of Davut Selim1940Officers returning the stolen horse1951The first branch of Davut Selim1963Davut Selim’s first property deed with tayyare stamp1967Davut Selim with his family at the wedding of his son Enver Bey Mardin is what the ancient Greek historians called “Mesopotamia”, which means […]

Sultanahmet Köftecisi

1920 Timeline 1918-19The Neighborhood Where Sultanahmet Köftecisi Was Established19501934Family PhotoSultanahmet Köftecisi – Selim Usta The story of the 1920 Sultanahmet Köftecisi, which has become famous enough to influence Turkish culinary culture today, begins when Mehmet Seracettin Efendi laid the foundations in 1916 and opened his tiny shop on the corner of Divanyolu Street in Sultanahmet […]

Vefa Bozacısı

1876 Timeline 1900Hacı Sadık Bey, the founder of Vefa Bozacısı, and his son Hacı İsmail Hakkı Bey1926An advertisement from the newspaper Hakimiyet-i Milliye1926“Vefa Bozası starts tomorrow”1950Vefa Boza, which is widely covered in the newspaper1950Store interior1956“Zaruri bir izah”: “An essential explanation”1981105th anniversary celebration2014Store interior2014Vefa Bozacisi on a cold winter evening2014Bottled Vefa Boza over the counter2014View of […]

Kebapçı İskender

1867 Timeline 1867Ottoman signboard: “Kebapci Mehmet’s Son Iskender” 1867Yavuz İskenderoğlu İSKENDER is a brand that was born and made famous by the kindness of the people of Bursa. Our story begins in the late 19th century in the shop of İskender Efendi, son of Mehmet, in the Bursa Kayhan Bazaar.   In those days, lamb […]

Karaköy Güllüoğlu

1843 Timeline 1820 Gaziantep – First store 1820 Güllü Çelebi 1949 Invitation notice 1949 Newspaper advertisement 1949 Flyers printed for the opening in Karaköy 2015 New logo Gaziantep is an empire of taste in Southeastern Turkey. Among regional traditions thousands of years old, delicious pastries, kebabs, and sweets hold a place of honor. Indeed, when […]

Hafız Mustafa

1864 Timeline 1864 Foundation Logo 1864 Confectioner Hafiz Mustafa 1900 Hamidiye Street in those years 1930 The name used by Cemil Bey 1940 Bahcekapi Store 1962 Newspaper advertisement In nineteenth-century İstanbul, the Anatolian town of Çankırı was famous for its candymakers. People who migrated to the capital city from that arid region would presumably follow […]

Konyalı Lokantası

1897 Timeline 1897 First store 1900 Famous guests hosted by Konyalı Restaurant 1946 Sınai Mülkiyet Newspaper advertisement 1987 Newspaper advertisement 1987 An ad from the same year 1988 Ramadan announcements 1989 Ahmet Bey, smoking his nargila after work Konya Lezzet Lokantası (also known as “Konyalı”) Born in 1882 in Konya, Hacı Ahmed Doyuran first moved […]

Pandeli Lokantası

1901 Timeline 1937 Şirket-i Hayriye ferries buffet menu & schedule 1950 Autograph signed by Audrey Hepburn 1950 Pandeli through the lens of the Columbia Evening newspaper 2000 Visitor's Corner In the nineteenth century, a sizeable Greek population still lived throughout Anatolia. Pandeli was the son of a Greek shepherd from Niğde who had moved to […]

Cemilzade

1883 Timeline 1883 Cemil Bey 1906 Bordeaux Fair Award 1906 Napoli Fair Award 1909 Cairo – Night view of the store in Opera Square 1915 Manager and clerk in the store 1926 Liege Fair Award 1926 Paris Fair Award 1937 Mehmet Ali Bey at the store in Kadıköy The eponymous Cemil Bey was born in […]

Beyaz Fırın

1836 Timeline 1924 Turkish Trade Yearbook 1938 Kadıköy bazaar plan 1940 Stoyanof Family The Stoyanof family’s roots go back to the village of Krisos near the western Macedonian city of Kastoria, now part of Greece. And for centuries, they put bread on the table by… quite literally putting bread on people’s tables; that is, they […]