Meşhur Söğüşçü Tahir Baba

About Meşhur Söğüşçü Tahir Baba

Meshur Soguscu Tahir Baba is a shop near Havra Sokagi in Kemeralti that has served kelle sogus, made from the meat of a sheep head, since 1967. According to an October 2026 profile by Culinary Backstreets, Tahir Sivritepe, then 17 and from Konya, began selling it from a cart on Havra Sokagi, the historic heart of the Jewish community of the city, and two decades later moved into a shop in the same area. Three generations of the Sivritepe family now keep it going: his son Cemil works until 2 a.m., then the grandson takes over until 9 in the morning. Cold slices of poached cheek, tongue and brain are mixed with tomatoes, red onions, chopped parsley and spicy green peppers and dusted with cumin, thyme and red pepper flakes. Unlike many places that roll everything into a wrap, Tahir Baba serves it on a plate with small handmade flatbreads so that diners assemble their own.