Yenice Lokantası

About Yenice Lokantası

Yenice Lokantasi is a traditional lokanta on Anafartalar Caddesi in the Kemeralti bazaar. Visit Izmir describes it as a quality eatery serving both grills and a wide choice of home-style stewed dishes, and notes that because the food is prepared fresh each day, few dishes are left after about 7 or 8 in the evening. A June 2025 article in Iz Gazete traces the family business back to 1920, when the Yenice family, who came to Izmir from Thessaloniki in the population exchange, opened a lokanta on Anafartalar Caddesi first known as Yesilova Lokantasi, where Mehmet Yenice cooked the offal and pot dishes he had learned in Rumelia. In 1950 his son Ismet opened a soup-only place nearby that became known as Corbaci Ismet Usta, and Ismet’s son Aykut Yenice combined his grandfather’s stews with his father’s soups to carry on the family tradition.