Where Gaziantep shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Gaziantep shops, snacks and lunches.
Almacı Pazarı has traded in central Gaziantep for around 250 years, and its stalls still carry the isot, pekmez, dried aubergine and green pistachio.
Go for: Antep pistachios, Isot pepper, Menengiç coffee, Pekmez
Tip: Buy isot here rather than at the airport. Ask for the coarse flakes, not the powder.
Elmacı Pazarı is the biggest food market in Gaziantep, a spice and nut bazaar named for the apple trade that once filled these lanes off Karatarla.
Go for: Spices, Nuts, Dried fruit, Herbs
Tip: Come early. The nut sellers restock at dawn and the lanes are impassable by mid-morning.
Zincirli Bedesten is the covered market Darendeli Hüseyin Paşa built in Gaziantep in 1718, and its 73 units now sell spices, handicrafts and regional gifts.
Go for: Spices, Regional gifts, Dried fruit
Tip: Do the covered lanes first, then the open bazaar. The 73 units run to spices, handicrafts and gifts.
Gümrük Hanı is one of the old customs inns of Gaziantep, a stone courtyard off Gümrük Caddesi where coffee grinders and craft workshops still trade.
Go for: Dibek coffee, Regional gifts
Tip: Kahveci Seddar Bey works out of the courtyard six days a week, closed on Mondays.