Gaziantep
Historic restaurants
Long-established restaurants and food businesses with a connection to the city’s culinary history.
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Sakıp Usta Paça - Beyran - Kebap
Spicy lamb and rice soup • Lamb trotter soup
Tudyahan 1874
Tiny rice and meat dumplings in yoghurt soup • Minced meat with loquats (seasonal)
Koçak Baklava
Classic pistachio baklava • Breakfast spread for the table
Katmerci Cumaali Usta
Paper-thin pastry with pistachio and clotted cream
Tarihi Elmacıpazarı Güllüoğlu Baklava
Moist pistachio baklava • Dry
Metanet Katmer Salonu
Katmerci Zekeriya Usta
Classic katmer • Simit katmer
Yesemek Gaziantep Mutfağı
Rice dumplings with lamb and chickpeas in yoghurt • Spring stew of lamb
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Sakıp Usta Paça - Beyran - Kebap
A Gaziantep restaurant for beyran, the spicy lamb and rice soup eaten for breakfast, open from early morning until late at night. Paça soups, sautéed offal, kebabs and katmer complete the menu.
Tudyahan 1874
A restaurant in an 1874 stone mansion in the historic Akyol quarter of Gaziantep. The menu is short and local: a regional breakfast, home-style dishes such as yuvalama and ekşili ufak köfte, and seasonal kebabs.
Koçak Baklava
A branch of the Gaziantep baklava maker Koçak that also serves breakfast and kebabs, on Abdulkadir Behçet Avenue in Şehitkamil. The menu centres on a breakfast spread, katmer and a long list of pistachio baklava.
Katmerci Cumaali Usta
A katmer shop in Yaprak, Şehitkamil, Gaziantep. The price list covers katmer. The menu is listed with prices in lira, euros and dollars.
Tarihi Elmacıpazarı Güllüoğlu Baklava
A dessert shop in Alaybey, Şahinbey, Gaziantep. The price list covers baklava. The menu is listed with prices in lira, euros and dollars.
Metanet Katmer Salonu
A katmer shop in Seferpaşa, Şahinbey, Gaziantep. Open since 1975. The price list covers katmer and ice cream.
Katmerci Zekeriya Usta
A traditional katmer shop near Elmacı Pazarı in Gaziantep. The menu includes pistachio katmer, künefe, house specials and ice cream.
Yesemek Gaziantep Mutfağı
A Gaziantep restaurant on Hamdi Kutlar Street specialising in the city's home-style stews and soups. Beyran, yuvarlama, şiveydiz and seasonal çağla aşı are on the menu, with a tasting tray of small portions.
Bayazhan
A restaurant inside Bayazhan, a restored stone han in Gaziantep's Akyol quarter. The menu runs from a spread breakfast in the morning to Antep kebabs, mezes and home-style dishes in the evening, served in the arched rooms and courtyard.
Küşlemeci Mehmet Usta
A kebab restaurant in Alleben, Şahinbey, Gaziantep. Open since 1972. The price list covers kebabs, lahmacun and desserts.
Hışvahan Restoran
A restaurant in the courtyard of Hışvahan, an Ottoman-era stone han below Gaziantep Castle. The menu brings together a long Antep meze list, stone-oven lahmacun, regional dishes and charcoal grills, with sharing menus for two to six people.
Katmerci Abdo Usta
A katmer shop in Karagöz, Şahinbey, Gaziantep. Open since 1926. The price list covers katmer.
Kebapçı Halil Usta
A kebab restaurant in the Karşıyaka quarter of Şehitkamil, Gaziantep, open since 1972 and closed on Sundays. The short menu is küşleme and other kebabs, lahmacun, baklava and katmer.
Tahmis Kahvesi
A coffee house built in 1635 in Gaziantep's old bazaar quarter, next to the Mevlevi lodge. It is the place to try menengiç coffee, made from roasted terebinth berries and simmered with milk, with a slice of baklava.
Küşleme Kebaphan
A kebab restaurant on Adana Yolu Bulvarı in Büyükpınar, Şehitkamil, Gaziantep, open since 1990. The menu has küşleme and other kebabs, pan dishes, mezes, stone-oven pides and katmer.
İmam Çağdaş Kebap Ve Baklava
A kebab and baklava house on Uzun Çarşı, the old bazaar street of Gaziantep, in business since 1887. Diners come for the city's kebabs, including seasonal ones made with garlic, loquats or desert truffles, and finish with baklava.
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