Moda coffee and sourdough shop with German recipes from a partner's family.
Tolga Burçak, who had run a coffee shop in Eskişehir, came up with the idea, and partners Osman Oğuz and Onur Doğulu opened it as a collective in February 2019. Oğuz's mother-in-law is behind the German recipes, and the sandwiches are made on sourdough. The first beans came from The Barn in Germany, and by 2020 the shop had moved to Turkish roasters.
On Fırıldak Sokak, a tree-lined residential street in Moda, the whole shopfront is glass, with a timber bench on the pavement outside and a counter along the window inside. A bare concrete column carries three vintage hand coffee grinders.
