Mehmet Gürs
Mehmet Gürs | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | Mehmet Gürs 13 December 1969 |
| Culinary career | |
| Cooking style | Ottoman/Turkish/Finnish[1] |
Current restaurant(s)
| |
Mehmet Gürs (born 13 December 1969) is a Turkish celebrity chef,[3] television personality and restaurateur.[4] He is considered to be Istanbul's most recognizable chef.[5][6]
Biography
Gürs was born in Finland to a Turkish father and a Finnish-Swedish mother and grew up in Stockholm and Istanbul.[5] He spent eight years training and working as a chef in the United States; from 1990 to 1993 he studied "Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management" at the Johnson & Wales University.[7][8] In the mid 1990s, he returned to Turkey to start his first restaurant called Downtown; six years later he opened "Lokanta and then "Mikla" in 2005.[3]
Gürs's Istanbul Food & Beverage Group now consists of Mikla, the numnum café & restaurant, Trattoria Enzo, Kronotrop, Terra Kitchen chain and the groups research lab, the workshop.
Awards
- 2006:Best Restaurant/ Mikla- TimeOut Istanbul
- 2004:Best Bar/ NuTeras- TimeOut Istanbul
- 2003:Best Chef/Mehmet Gürs- TimeOut Istanbul
- 2002:Best Bar/ NuTeras- TimeOut Istanbul
- 2001:Best Restaurant/ Downtown- TimeOut Istanbul
Personal life
Gürs is married and has a son named Bora. He speaks Swedish, Turkish, French, and English.[8]
References
- ^ The New York Times (9 December 2007). "Cultures Meet at the Dinner Table". Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ The New York Times. "Mikla". Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ a b The Sunday Morning Herald (8 October 2010). "Celebrity chef with an anthropologist's interest in rare food". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Euronews. "Turkey with a Twist:Combining Cuisine, Culture and Commerce". Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ a b Food and Wine. "Turkish Picnic". Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Sabah. "Gürs: Gastronomi turizmiyle milyonlarca Euro kazanırız". Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Johnson & Wales University. "Mehmet Gurs '93, Chef, Resturant (sic) Owner". Retrieved 27 June 2011.
- ^ a b Mikla. "Mehmet Gürs Profile". Retrieved 25 June 2011.
External links
