Çiya Kebab

A Garden of Lost Cultures and Forgotten Tastes

From the owner of a modest kebab restaurant, the adventure of Ciya is a journey built on passion, keen desire, research and love through the world of food.

Çiya --- like its name, brings to mind high mountain peaks and mountain flowers. In the old days when one would go only for a good kebab or a good lahmacun and those that knew the name "Çiya" could learn the meaning just by asking, a dinning experience that is known as "Çiya" was born in this nest. To this wealth of gourmet expertise a second specially set-up "Sofra" or Kebab House was added. Soon after within a few meters of each other a third "kebab house" was added, hence the three"Çiya"s.

Located in the Fish Market district of Kadiköy, where one's path will definitely be drawn to one of these establishments . The cache of culinary knowledge at Çiya which quite honestly comes from the hands of its creators or "culinary engineers"; Zeynep and Musa who make it all possible. The creators, will take you for a journey in their kitchen, rich in "dishes from a broad geographical space, spanning from Mesopotamia to the Ottomans, from the Balkans to the Caucasus and from Asia to the Arabian Peninsula."

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To me the "Çiyas" are not just eateries, but a center of culinary research and application."

From: Sabri Koz "Dinning at Çiya" A Small Dictionary of Food and Selected Dishes