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Paskalya çöreği

Braided Easter bread with mastic and mahlep

Where it comes fromIstanbul's own

The Easter bread of the city's Rum and Armenian bakers.

Sources: Nalin Öztekin, bianet (2026); Özge Samancı, İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (2015).

At Üstün Palmie

Made with plenty of mastic, milk and butter, the house says, for the Easter table.

From Üstün Palmie's own menu and pages, as we read them in October 2026.

Also on our table

  • A dev çatal, the salted ring

Üstün Palmie

Turkish · pastane (pastry shop) · Easter breads · Feriköy, Istanbul

Feriköy Mah. Baruthane Cad. No:63/A, 34377 Şişli, İstanbul

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A Kurtuluş pastry shop opened in 1970 by a baker who spent 72 years at the oven. Its Easter bread is its reason.

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