Kısmet Lokantası 1967

About Kısmet Lokantası 1967

Kısmet Lokantası is a classic lokanta, a Turkish home-cooking restaurant, set in the courtyard of Küçük Demir Han in the Kemeraltı bazaar. It was founded in 1967 by Hasan Çağan, known as Hasan Usta from Urla, and is now in its third generation. According to Visit İzmir, the municipal tourism site, it opened in a shop beside the Kestane Pazarı Mosque and moved to its present premises in 1978. The kitchen prepares close to forty dishes a day drawing on Balkan, Aegean, Greek and Ottoman cooking, and the menu follows the seasons: nothing out of season is served. It is best known for dishes made with Aegean wild greens in their season, and the menu covers meat stews as well as olive oil vegetable dishes. Dishes the restaurant highlights include Elbasan tava, stuffed lamb, beef güveç, şevketi bostan, artichokes and çalkama, while fresh lor cheese dessert and kalburabastı are favourite sweets. Culinary Backstreets recommends it for Aegean stews, İzmir köfte and olive oil dishes. It is a lunchtime restaurant: the kitchen starts early each morning and serves from late morning to mid-afternoon, Monday to Saturday. The business also runs a branch in the Agora shopping centre. Good to know: - Type: lokanta, Aegean, Balkan and Turkish home cooking - Founded: 1967 - Hours: Monday to Saturday, 11:00 to 16:00 - Location: Küçük Demir Han, Kemeraltı