Most Loved Restaurants Created and Run by Women

They say kitchen and restaurant management is a male-dominated sector. Long hours are worked when everyone wants to socialize. Although it's considered a more difficult sector for women, we have women who have achieved commendable success in this sector.

Didem Senol – Gram, Zuko

If you're even slightly interested in the food and beverage world, it's impossible not to have heard of Didem Senol. Lokanta Maya, one of Karakoy's first residents, or the book 'Kiziniz Defneyi, Oglumuz Iskorpite...' will be enough to remind you of her. Didem, who won the 'Best Chef' award at Time Out's Food and Drink Awards in 2010, has a wonderful culinary story from studying Psychology at Koc University to going to America for culinary training, then from New York to Lokanta Maya and then to Gram. Didem doesn't let ingredients into her kitchen without knowing their source and only cooks with seasonal ingredients. Thanks to this, we always encounter fresh and new flavors at Gram.

Asli Pasinli - La Mancha, Kydonia, Incirli Saraphane, Banyan

Another successful female entrepreneur who has made her mark in the Istanbul food scene with multiple restaurant ventures.