SivasOrigin
Raised in central Türkiye
Sivas, Türkiye
Born and raised in Sivas, in the high plains of central Anatolia — the table, the hospitality and the long way of doing things were learned at home.
Chef Sultan
Sivas · İstanbul · Pittsburgh
The story
Everything the long way, the hard way.
Chef Sultan grew up in Sivas, on the high plains of central Anatolia, studied hotel management in Gelibolu, and learned his trade in Istanbul's hotel kitchens. He came to Pittsburgh in 2009 — driving a cab for years before finding his way back to the stove — and made the city home.
In 2021 he opened his own from-scratch Turkish kitchen with his wife Fatma, who brings the Gaziantep family recipes. He imports Turkish flour and pistachios, rolls his own phyllo on a machine carried from Türkiye, and finishes everything in clarified butter — because, as he puts it…
“We are doing everything the long way, the hard way, because it's the right way.”
— Chef Sultan
2021
Opened his own kitchen
8
Scratch baklava varieties
2×
Post-Gazette features
4.3★
460+ Google reviews
“The tastiest restaurant-based representation of Turkish food in the region.”
Hal B. Klein · Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
