Name: Mikla
Address: Istanbul, TR

Mehmet Gürs's rooftop over the old city, where 'new Anatolian' cooking maps Turkey's own producers and reads them through a Nordic sensibility. The view is half the meal.

By Dimitris Stathopoulos

The cooking

Carefully sourced Anatolian produce, cured, grilled and plated with Scandinavian restraint, the Golden Horn and the minarets laid out below. Precise, rooted, quietly radical.

Why it is in VANE

The table that redrew what modern Turkish cooking could be, in the best seat in Istanbul.

Where

Rooftop, The Marmara Pera, Beyoğlu

Kitchen

Chef Mehmet Gürs

Style

New Anatolian

Setting

Rooftop over the historic peninsula

Best for

Dinner at sunset

VANE selection. Chosen with a critic's eye and judged independently. It's here because we judged it, not because it paid.
On this profile: a researched profile, drawn from the restaurant's own record and reporting, not a claim of a first-hand visit. Where we have eaten there, the review says so.
Image: original VANE artwork; photography to follow.