Gökhan Kural, Ahmet Sait Boğatekin and Mustafa Aydın planned Kernel before the pandemic to control a coffee from green sourcing through roast profile to brew recipe. It launched in 2021.
Each seasonal coffee gets its own roast profile at a workshop in Hasanpaşa that opens by appointment and also runs education and consulting. Lots have included Ethiopia Konga and El Salvador Altamira.
At the Suadiye café, almost all the seats are on a covered terrace. A long curved banquette runs down its glass wall, and a house cat sleeps on it. A terrazzo-fronted counter sits just inside the sliding glass front, and a second terrace wraps round the corner under a retractable glass roof.
