03:00
The starter wakes
Yesterday’s starter is given flour and water. Within an hour it begins to rise; from the smell you can tell how the day’s bread will turn out. No dry yeast, no accelerator — what we feed is alive.
About usOn the same street,
On the same street,
for fifteen years.
We’re not a chain and we have no branches. We have one bakery in Muratpaşa and it lights up at the same hour every morning.
How the day runsA bakery is
A bakery is
really a clock.
In our trade the order is kept in hours, not numbers. We start while the street sleeps; by the time you walk in, half the day is already behind us.
04:00
The dough is kneaded
Flour, water, salt and starter. There is no fourth ingredient. The dough is brought together by hand, then left alone for hours. That waiting deepens the flavour and makes the bread easier to digest.
05:00
The counter fills
The door opens. Loaves, poğaça, açma and the first round of simit go behind the glass. The first customer usually comes from the building across the street and always buys the same thing.
10:00
The cakes are built
Once the bread is done, the pastry side begins. Cream is whipped, layers are stacked, the names on the orders are piped. This work wants quiet, so it comes after the morning noise.
15:00
Second round
In the afternoon the simit and poğaça trays go back into the oven. They have to be ready for the school run. Nothing left from the morning is mixed into this round.
01:00
We close, nothing is left
Whatever remains on the counter goes to the neighbourhood soup kitchen that same evening. The next morning everything starts from zero — because if you sell something as fresh, you can’t sell yesterday’s.
Three things that never change
No shortcuts.
one
Nothing from yesterday
Everything is baked that morning and sold that day. That’s why some items run out in the afternoon — we see that as a promise, not a fault.
two
No additives
Thickeners, preservatives, ready-made cream mixes, frozen dough. None of it enters the kitchen. An ingredient list should be short and readable.
three
No chain
One shop, one oven. We don’t multiply to grow; we fill the same counter with the same care every day.
Come byThe oven is always lit,
The oven is always lit,
the door always open.
Yunus Emre Cd. No: 32A, Kızıltoprak / Muratpaşa. Every day 05:00 – 01:00. Come early in the morning and you’ll catch the bread still warm.