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Balat Coffee and Guide Offers More Than Coffee in Istanbul’s Jewish Quarter

  • Michael Butterworth
  • October 5, 2017October 5, 2017
  • 1 Comment

Coffee shops have long been the cultural informants of their neighborhoods. When traveling, you can usually count on a barista to know the best restaurants, which tourist traps to avoid, and some h

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Thousands Flock to Istanbul Coffee Festival

  • Michael Butterworth
  • September 26, 2017September 26, 2017
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Unseasonably hot weather and freak flash thunderstorms didn’t keep thousands of Istanbullu from flocking to the Istanbul Coffee Festival last week.  As avid Turcophiles, we’ve been following t

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Cafe Review: Norm Coffee in Istanbul

  • Michael Butterworth
  • March 21, 2016March 24, 2016
  • 3 Comments

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk wrote in his memoir, Istanbul: Memories and the City, “it was in Cihangir (where we too would move as our fortunes dwindled) that I first learned Ist

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Five Istanbul Coffee Shops Changing the Turkish Coffee Scene

  • Michael Butterworth
  • September 17, 2014May 3, 2024
  • 10 Comments

In Istanbul, a movement is reaching critical mass. A couple of years ago we were on hand at the opening of Çekirdek– a cafe that is widely considered the first third wave coffee shop in on

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A Look Inside Kronotrop’s Roastery in Fresh Cup

  • Michael Butterworth
  • September 3, 2014
  • 2 Comments

Fresh Cup Magazine published my feature “Refining Istanbul’s Coffee” today. The story looks inside Kronotrop’s roastery, a coalition between Kronotrop founder Çağatay Gü

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Geyik Coffee Roastery & Cocktail Bar Makes Waves in Istanbul

  • Michael Butterworth
  • September 1, 2014January 12, 2016
  • 1 Comment

It’s a quiet morning in Istanbul’s Cihangir neighborhood, and Serkan Ipekli is tired. The 2013 Turkish Barista Champion is fighting an ear infection, but he’s also experiencing th

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Cup of Joy in Istanbul Looks Heavenly in this New Video

  • Michael Butterworth
  • June 27, 2014June 27, 2014
  • 3 Comments

In the past two years the specialty coffee scene in Istanbul has exploded. We covered one of the first quality focused cafes that opened in Turkey’s largest city, and we’re beyond exci

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Turkish Delight: Çekirdek Cafe Opens in Istanbul, Turkey

  • Michael Butterworth
  • December 19, 2012January 12, 2016
  • 5 Comments

Brief History of Turkish Coffee If you had a cup of coffee this morning, you can thank the Turks. Coffee came to the West through Turkey as the Ottoman Empire expanded into the European continent.�

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