{"id":168,"date":"2007-10-21T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-10-21T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T08:24:49","slug":"the-pudding-shop-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/turkey\/istanbul-turkey\/the-pudding-shop-istanbul","title":{"rendered":"The Pudding Shop &#8211; Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just opposite from the Blue Mosque is the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Turkey\/Istanbul\/SultanAhmet\/AJP_1977.jpg.html\" title=\"The Pudding Shop - Istanbul\">Pudding Shop<\/a>, also known as the Lale Restaurant.\u00a0 Two brothers, Idris and Namik Colpan, opened the Lale Pastahanesi in 1957.\u00a0 The Pudding Shop was made famous in the 1970&#8217;s by young travellers who <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/34985-2\/AJP_1977.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Lale Pudding Shop - Istanbul\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Lale Pudding Shop - Istanbul\" \/>were looking for adventure in the East.\u00a0 As explained by Idris Colpan, &#8216;pilgrims&#8217; travelling East, often driving old cars or Volkswagen vans, would stop at his restaurant to meet new acquaintances and find other travellers with whom to share expenses and experiences.\u00a0 There was a bulletin board where messages could be left by people offering or requiring rides to the Far East or back to Europe.\u00a0 The Pudding Shop was the start of the &#8220;hippie trail&#8221; that led many young American and Europeans on their eastern adventure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/34989-2\/DSC_0112.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Pudding Shop - Service area\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Pudding Shop - Service area\" \/>Today, the Pudding Shop, still run by the Colpan family, more resembles an upmarket fast-food outlet rather than a gateway to nirvana.\u00a0\u00a0There is a smart service area where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Turkey\/Istanbul\/SultanAhmet\/DSC_0112.jpg.html\" title=\"Turkish Cuisine - Pudding Shop\">traditional Turkish cuisine <\/a>are displayed.\u00a0 Around the walls of the restaurant are pictures young hippies looking dazed and living their Bohemian lifestyles.\u00a0\u00a0The Pudding Shop brought back lots of memories for Tony, as he too had drifted through here in the 1980s, and he reminisced of his experience with Adem Colpan who now manages the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/34991-2\/DSC_0115.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Lunch at the Pudding Shop\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Lunch at the Pudding Shop\" \/>The Pudding Shop lost its prominence as travellers abandoned the traditional route to the east.\u00a0 Also, the rapid changes and development across the city has changed everything for the Pudding Shop.\u00a0 These days, their clean set-up and range of food attract tourists of a different kind.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve stopped here twice in two days to get our coffee fix and also to enjoy some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Turkey\/Istanbul\/SultanAhmet\/DSC_0115.jpg.html\" title=\"Lunch at the Pudding Shop\">traditional Turkish food<\/a>.\u00a0 Today we met Namik himself and he showed us the picture of himself and the president of Turkey.\u00a0 He also showed us a brochure of the Blue House, a nice hotel that they own at the back of the restaurant.\u00a0 It certainly is very convenient to the main tourist attractions and worth trying next time we&#8217;re here on our own.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just opposite from the Blue Mosque is the famous Pudding Shop, also known as the Lale Restaurant.\u00a0 Two brothers, Idris and Namik Colpan, opened the Lale Pastahanesi in 1957.\u00a0 The Pudding Shop was made famous in the 1970&#8217;s by young travellers who were looking for adventure in the East.\u00a0 As explained by Idris Colpan, &#8216;pilgrims&#8217; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-istanbul-turkey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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