Ozan Devlen's Review:
Topçunun Yeri: Turkish Sish Kebap
Topçu (Artilleryman) is the nickname of the founder of the place. Who served in the army as an artilleryman. Topçu is serving most probably the best “çöpşiş” a Turkish kebap made of small cuts of lamb.
Topçu was founded in 1957 and start serving “choep shish” as the first place in Izmir to do so. Eatinizmir visited Chesme branch of Topchu which is equally mastered in cuisine as the main restaurant in izmir.
23 years ago Cevat Dev take over the place and make some gentle touches in order to perfect the service and ambiance without changing the taste and the recipe at all.
Topçu is ofcourse famous of it’s Choep Shish but there are also other alternatives that you should give a try if you are not a big fan of lamb. Still don’t forget that it is what you should try first.
There you can notice a huge pile of onion flavoured by some red pepper (isot, a traditional turkish red pepper which is considerably hot), it is very common to consume this grilled onion along with cop sis. Topçu also offers alternatives such as Tandır (another specialty made of whole lamb in a special oven), meat ball, lamb chops(ribs), chicken cop sis and so on. The prices are fairly acceptable and the service is also pretty fast and polite. We as eatinizmir recommend you to try a soup in advance. There are two recommendations from us among several choices. Either try Ezogelin (a vegeterian soup made of several vegetables but still tasty) or Damar Tuzlama (a special type of “ishkembe soup” (a soup made of paunch of a sheep)) as a specialty of Topcu. The famaous Cop Sis
Cop Sis
[…] with hopes of avoiding Ataturk‘s revenge (avoided, thankfully). Our best meal in Izmir was at Topçu, where we had lamb in a wonderful creamy mushroom sauce, and their specialty – Cop Sis […]