Kronotrop · Emaar Square

Üsküdar

HoursOpen · Closes 22:00

TypeRoaster · Regional Chain

One of Turkey’s first specialty roasters, now thirty-five branches across the country.

Çağatay Gülabioğlu founded it in Galatasaray in 2012, roasting in-house on a one-kilo Toper Cafemino. Chef Mehmet Gürs became a partner around 2013, and by the time Fresh Cup visited in 2014 the roastery had moved to a converted test kitchen in Atatürk Oto Sanayi with a Loring S15 Falcon, roasting for Gürs's restaurants, Mikla among them. Gülabioğlu has since sold the company.

The branches now reach Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Konya, and Sakarya, with more than three hundred staff. Current single origins include Kenya Gakuyu-ini AB, Rwanda Huye Mountain, Peru Huabal from above 1,800 metres in Cajamarca, and Guatemala Female Growers.

At this shop

On the basement floor of Emaar Square Mall, the glass frontage looks onto a mural-painted plaza, with tables under a black canvas umbrella on the pavement outside. Inside, a whitewashed brick counter banded in red-and-white tile runs along the back wall, with three copper cezve pots warming on a stand at one end, facing round marble tables and wishbone chairs.