Mehmet Gürs
ABOUT MEHMET GüRS
Chef who was awarded Best Restaurant by TimeOut Istanbul in 2001 and 2006 and Best Bar by the same publication in 2002 and 2004.
He trained as a chef for 8 years in the United States and studied Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management at the Johnson & Wales University from 1990 to 1993.
He opened his first restaurant in Turkey in the mid-1990s called Downtown. He then opened Lokanta and Mikla. He has over 120,000 followers on his gursmehmet Instagram account.
He had a Turkish father and a Finnish-Swedish mother.
He and Burak Ozdemir are both chefs fro Turkey.
