Tarihi Güven Lokantası

About Tarihi Güven Lokantası

Tarihi Güven Lokantası is one of İzmir's oldest lokantas, the traditional Turkish restaurants serving ready-cooked home-style dishes, in the Hisarönü part of the Kemeraltı bazaar. Visit İzmir, the municipal tourism site, describes it as serving the tradespeople and shoppers of Kemeraltı with a menu weighted towards Ottoman and Turkish cooking. According to the 100 Tarihi Lokanta project, which documents historic Turkish restaurants, the first Güven Lokantası was opened around 1939 opposite the Hisar Mosque by Rıza İltir, who had come to İzmir from Thessaloniki in the 1924 population exchange. His son Yalçın İltir later opened Güven Kebapçısı on the same street and, when his father's restaurant closed, renamed it Güven Lokantası and turned to stews and pot dishes so that his father's regulars had somewhere to eat. The family later handed the business on to Fevzi Özbaş. The cooking is classic lokanta fare. The same source names beef tas kebabı, dil paça and incik kapama, a slow-cooked shank dish, among its best-known dishes. Service starts early with soup and runs until the evening; recent visitors' posts give the hours as 08:00 to 20:00 and note that it is closed on Sundays. Good to know: - Type: lokanta, Ottoman and Turkish home cooking - Established around 1939 - Location: 899. Sokak, Hisarönü, Kemeraltı