Şiş Kebapçı Şükrü-Faik Öztepe

About Şiş Kebapçı Şükrü-Faik Öztepe

Şiş Kebapçı Şükrü-Faik Öztepe is a family-run köfte shop in central Tire, the town whose şiş köfte is protected as a geographical indication and was ranked first in TasteAtlas's list of the world's best minced meat dishes. In an Anadolu Agency report from April 2025, köfte master Şükrü Öztepe, then 76, said his father opened the family's first shop in 1932, that he started working alongside him in 1963 and that he had been making köfte at the same premises for 41 years. He described the method: meat from the rib section of beef, trimmed of fat, membrane and sinew, salted, rested and minced without additives, then wrapped on skewers and part-cooked over a wood fire. The köfte is finished with butter in copper pans and served plain, with tomato sauce or with yoghurt, as the customer prefers. It is a small, traditional lokanta rather than a sit-down restaurant, and a good place to try the town's best-known dish.