We'd add
Our runner-upGül Aromalı Akide Şekeri
Old-style boiled sugar sweets with rose
The old sweet of the holidays, made by the house's sugar masters. A bag alongside.
- A confectioner since 1777
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstAntep Fıstıklı Lokum
Turkish delight with Antep pistachios
Where it comes fromIstanbul's own
Its first name, rahatü'l-hulkum, meant "comfort of the throat", and the name wore down to rahat lokum, then lokum. The painter Pretextat Lecomte, who lived in the city, wrote in 1907 that it was invented in Istanbul.
Sources: Artun Ünsal, Cumhuriyet (2015); Zeynep Kakınç, Vatan (2018); Al-Monitor (2016).
At Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir
Set with pistachios roasted twice, to the historic Hacı Bekir recipe. A box we'd share.
Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir
Turkish · şekerci · lokum · Eminönü, Istanbul
Hamidiye Cad. No:33, Eminönü, Fatih/İstanbul
Hacı Bekir Efendi opened a sweet shop behind the Yeni Cami in the eighteenth century, and the family has kept it for five generations, as a living museum. Lokum, Turkish delight, is its name across Istanbul.
The proof
Why the pistachio lokum
Sourcing · protected name
Antep pistachios, a name protected in Turkey.
Tradition
The same family making lokum on the same spot for nearly two and a half centuries.
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