
2 hours
Istanbul: Döner & Tandoor Bread Making Experience with Meal
Savor the taste of traditional Anatolian döner and tandoor bread. Watch as your bread is baked fresh to order and see the döner being sliced and served fresh from the spit.
Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir is a bakery in Eminönü, Istanbul.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.

2 hours
Savor the taste of traditional Anatolian döner and tandoor bread. Watch as your bread is baked fresh to order and see the döner being sliced and served fresh from the spit.

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Address: Hobyar Mah., Hamidiye Caddesi No:31, 34110 Fatih, İstanbul, Istanbul
Hafız Mustafa 1864 on Hamidiye Caddesi, the original Sultan Abdülaziz-era confectioner still rolling lokum and laminated baklava in Eminönü over a 160-year.
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Saray Muhallebicisi on Istiklal, the 1935 muhallebici pulling chicken-breast pudding, kazandibi and milk-pudding bowls into the small hours.
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Beyaz Fırın in Etiler, a heritage Turkish bakery dating to 1836, working out of a two-floor Nispetiye Caddesi space with a vertical garden and a 350-seat.
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Borsam Taşfırın in Kadıköy, pulling stone-oven lahmacun and pide since 1968 from a glass-fronted counter on the Bahariye side of Caferağa. At Caferağa Mah..
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Mado on Bağdat Caddesi, the Maraş-origin Kanbur-family ice-cream brand whose first Istanbul branch opened in Caddebostan, famous for the stretchable salep.
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Karaköy Güllüoğlu, the one-counter Rıhtım Caddesi baklava emporium across from Galataport, has filled the Güllü family's pistachio version since 1949.
Worth the queuePistachio baklava
Hafız Mustafa 1864 on Hamidiye Caddesi, the original Sultan Abdülaziz-era confectioner still rolling lokum and laminated baklava in Eminönü over a 160-year.
Worth the queuePomegranate Turkish delight