What started as a simple culinary ideal to bring fresh produce-driven cuisine to the Nisantasi neighborhood has emerged as one of the top food draws in the entire city. Having expanded since its 2000 opening, Kantin now occupies a first-floor gourmet shop with cafe and garden in addition to an upper level dining area that usually crowded with an astute mix of local residents and fashionable visitors that often tout it as their best meal in the city.
The Food
London-trained chef considered one of the country's foremost culinary matriarchs presides over farm-to-table eatery offering rustic flatbreads and traditional recipes made in a wood fire oven with additional on-site gourmet cafe offering all-day takeout menu as well as garden dining in warmer weather. Dishes include flatbreads topped with crispy salmon and arugula, mushroom and parma ham or goat's cheese and chard.
Last Word
Nisantasi gourmet shop with cafe and garden with upper level dining led by London-trained chef with farm-to-table pedigree.
