Mehmet Gürs | |
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Born | Mehmet Gürs 13 December 1969 |
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Cooking style | Turkish/ Finnish [1] |
Current restaurant(s)
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Mehmet Gürs (born 13 December 1969) is a Finnish celebrity chef, [3] television personality, restaurateur and consultant. [4] [5] [6] [7] He is considered to be Istanbul's most recognizable chef. [8] [9]
Gürs was born in Finland to a Turkish father and a Finnish-Swedish mother and grew up in Stockholm and Istanbul. [8] 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 Johnson & Wales University. [10] [11] 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 group's research lab, the workshop.
Gürs has one child. He speaks Swedish, Turkish, French, and English. [11]
Suomalais-turkkilainen Mehmet Gürs
Ravintoloitsija Mehmet Gürs on palkittu suomalais-turkkilainen keittiömestari
Suomalais-turkkilainen Mehmet Gürs
Mehmet Gürs | |
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Born | Mehmet Gürs 13 December 1969 |
Culinary career | |
Cooking style | Turkish/ Finnish [1] |
Current restaurant(s)
|
Mehmet Gürs (born 13 December 1969) is a Finnish celebrity chef, [3] television personality, restaurateur and consultant. [4] [5] [6] [7] He is considered to be Istanbul's most recognizable chef. [8] [9]
Gürs was born in Finland to a Turkish father and a Finnish-Swedish mother and grew up in Stockholm and Istanbul. [8] 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 Johnson & Wales University. [10] [11] 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 group's research lab, the workshop.
Gürs has one child. He speaks Swedish, Turkish, French, and English. [11]
Suomalais-turkkilainen Mehmet Gürs
Ravintoloitsija Mehmet Gürs on palkittu suomalais-turkkilainen keittiömestari
Suomalais-turkkilainen Mehmet Gürs