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Turkish-Finnish chef (born 1969) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mehmet Gürs (born 13 December 1969) is a Finnish celebrity chef,[3] television personality, restaurateur and consultant.[4][5][6][7] He is considered to be Istanbul's most recognizable chef.[8][9]
Gürs was born in Finland to a Turkish father and a Finnish-Swedish mother and grew up in Stockholm and Istanbul.[8] He spent eight years training and working as a chef in the United States; from 1990 to 1993 he studied Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management at Johnson & Wales University.[10][11] In the mid 1990s, he returned to Turkey to start his first restaurant called Downtown; six years later he opened Lokanta and then Mikla in 2005.[3]
Gürs's Istanbul Food & Beverage Group now consists of Mikla, the numnum café & restaurant, Trattoria Enzo, Kronotrop, Terra Kitchen chain and the group's research lab, the workshop.
Gürs has one child. He speaks Swedish, Turkish, French, and English.[11]
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