Konyalı Lokantası, one of the oldest restaurants in Istanbul, is closed!
Konyalı Lokantası, where the queue in front of it never ends in the 1990s, where the masters could create delicious delicacies and create a place in memories with its unique features, went down its shutters after 124 years.. Konyalı’s owner, Nebih Yaman, said, “The restaurant in Sirkeci has been shuttered, but the Saray Konyalı restaurant in Topkapı Palace will continue its services.” we couldn’t do anything. We had to gradually close. We also had to leave, there were about 45 people working.”
The website of the restaurant, which has a history starting from the Ottoman period and extending to the Republic, draws attention to the fact that the adventure of the place started with 16 seats.. The history of the restaurant is written as follows:
“Great grandfather Hacı Ahmet Doyuran, who came out of the Doğanbey district of Konya in 1895, opens a modest chef’s shop in Sirkeci with four tables and 16 chairs in 1897, under the name ‘Konya Lezzet Lokantası’.. After a while, he transfers the restaurant to his son-in-law Mustafa Doğanbey.
The restaurant, which has become known as the representative of taste and cleanliness in a short time, will become one of the first names that come to mind when Istanbul cuisine is mentioned.
Konyalı’s Its fame spread to Turkey with the efforts of Nurettin Doğanbey after the 1940s.
It becomes a frequent destination for local and foreign statesmen, kings and queens, artists.”
Hosted Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The lines reminding that the restaurant also hosted the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk continue as follows:
“Today, the organization run by Mehmet Eren Doğanbey, who is the fourth generation of Doğanbey Family, has passed away from the great leader Atatürk to the Queen of England Elizabeth II, from the President of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto to the ex-president of America Richard Nixon between 1924 – 2006. Many statesmen from all over the world, famous artists, King and It has the honor of hosting the queens.”