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Istanbul's Best Coffee Shop

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Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi, the phenomenal 141-year-old Turkish coffee purveyor, is located in a weather-beaten deco building just outside of Istanbul's Spice Market. Through its street-front window, thousands of brown wax-paper packets of freshly ground coffee are sold each day. The beans are roasted on the premises and then ground as finely as cake flour in belt-driven mills that chug away from morning to night. Taken home and brewed the traditional Turkish way—brought to a boil with water and sugar in a long-handled pot called a cezve—Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi coffee is the boldest, ballsiest you'll ever taste.

Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi
Tahmis Sokak 66 Eminönü, 
Istanbul, Turkey
90/212/511-4262

Istanbul's Best Coffee Shop

This article was first published in Saveur in Issue #153

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If you are in Istanbul you don't have to go to Eminönü for this coffee. Nearly every medium-sized or big shops have it, but of course they are not freshly ground (they are canned). Still, if you can go, it is better to get the fresh one. Also the beautiful smell of the shop is a bonus.

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