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About Me

I was born and raised in Istanbul — a city where food is never just food, but memory, culture, and conversation layered over centuries. Living there teaches you that a kitchen is shaped not only by ingredients, but by people, migrations, seasons, and shared tables. For eighteen years I ran a restaurant called Kantin. It began as a neighbourhood eatery and slowly became a place known for what I came to call New Istanbul Cuisine — cooking rooted in tradition, sometimes classical, sometimes inventive, always seasonal and always personal.