Mehmet Gürs

Mehmet Gürs
Born Mehmet Gürs
(1969-12-13) 13 December 1969
Ekenäs, Finland

Culinary career

Cooking style Ottoman/Turkish/Finnish[1]

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

Personal life

Gürs is married and has a son named Bora. He speaks Swedish, Turkish, French, and English.[8]

References

  1. ↑ The New York Times (2007-12-09). "Cultures Meet at the Dinner Table". Retrieved 2011-06-25.
  2. ↑ The New York Times. "Mikla". Retrieved 2011-06-25.
  3. 1 2 The Sunday Morning Herald (2010-10-08). "Celebrity chef with an anthropologist's interest in rare food". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2011-06-25.
  4. ↑ Euronews. "Turkey with a Twist:Combining Cuisine, Culture and Commerce". Retrieved 2011-06-25.
  5. 1 2 Food and Wine. "Turkish Picnic". Retrieved 2011-06-25.
  6. ↑ Sabah. "Gürs: Gastronomi turizmiyle milyonlarca Euro kazanırız". Retrieved 2011-06-25.
  7. ↑ Johnson & Wales University. "Mehmet Gurs '93, Chef, Resturant (sic) Owner". Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  8. 1 2 Mikla. "Mehmet Gürs Profile". Retrieved 25 June 2011.

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