Mehmet Gürs Explained
Birth Name: | Mehmet Gürs |
Birth Date: | 13 December 1969 |
Birth Place: | Ekenäs, Finland |
Style: | Turkish/Finnish[1] |
Restaurants: | Mikla (Istanbul)[2] Num Num Cafe & Restaurant (7 branches) |
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]
Biography
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.
Awards
- 2001: Best Restaurant/ Downtown - TimeOut Istanbul
- 2002: Best Bar/ NuTeras - TimeOut Istanbul
- 2003: Best Chef/Mehmet Gürs - TimeOut Istanbul
- 2004: Best Bar/ NuTeras - TimeOut Istanbul
- 2006: Best Restaurant/ Mikla - TimeOut Istanbul
Personal life
Gürs has one child. He speaks Swedish, Turkish, French, and English.[11]
Notes and References
- News: The New York Times. Cultures Meet at the Dinner Table. 2011-06-25. 2007-12-09.
- News: The New York Times. Mikla. 2011-06-25. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121018012638/http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/europe/turkey/istanbul/70311/mikla/restaurant-detail.html?inline=nyt-classifier. 18 October 2012.
- News: The Sunday Morning Herald. Celebrity chef with an anthropologist's interest in rare food. 2011-06-25. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2010-10-08.
- Web site: Euronews. Turkey with a Twist:Combining Cuisine, Culture and Commerce. 2011-06-25.
- Web site: Tähtikokki Mehmet Gürs palasi kotiin Helsinkiin . . fi . 20 September 2021 . Suomalais-turkkilainen Mehmet Gürs.
- Web site: Pönötys pois ja herkut pöytään! Ravintola Andreassa ei turhia hienostella, vaikka viiden tähden hotellissa ollaankin . Paavilainen . Kaisa . 14 September 2018 . . fi . 20 September 2021 . Ravintoloitsija Mehmet Gürs on palkittu suomalais-turkkilainen keittiömestari.
- Web site: Antto Melasniemi ja Mehmet Gürs ovat St. George -hotellin keittiön päätähdet . Kahkonen . Heikki . 6 September 2017 . Viisi Tähteä Media . fi . 20 September 2021 . Suomalais-turkkilainen Mehmet Gürs.
- Web site: Food and Wine. Turkish Picnic. 2011-06-25.
- Web site: Sabah. Gürs: Gastronomi turizmiyle milyonlarca Euro kazanırız. 2011-06-25.
- Web site: Johnson & Wales University. Mehmet Gurs '93, Chef, Restaurant Owner. 24 February 2018.
- Web site: Mikla. Mehmet Gürs Profile. 25 June 2011.