Hamdi Restaurant was founded by Hamdi Arpacı, who came to Istanbul from Urfa in the 1960’s and opened up a small stand next to the Spice Bazaar where he began to cook and sell kebabs with the flavors of home. ...
The Hasan Kolcuoğlu Restaurant is a family establishment. Its foundations were laid in Adana in 1910 and today it has scores of branches across Turkey, the first of which opened in1946. In 1963 the name was shortened to Kolcuoğlu and since 1974 has spread all over Turkey. ...
Konyalı Restaurant, first established in Sirkeci and later in Topkapı Palace and Kanyon Shopping Mall, is one of İstanbul’s unique places run by a central-Anatolian Konya family for four generations... ...