Çağatay Gülabioğlu, Turkey's first Q Grader, founded Kronotrop in 2012 and left in 2014 to start Probador. He won the SCA Turkey Roasting Championship three years running from 2015 to 2017, and in 2015 he organised the first Turkish AeroPress Championship at Soho House. He roasts on Giesen W15 and W1 machines, and the building's lab hosts the country's only Q Grader exams. From 2014 to 2018 Probador was Turkey's distributor for Cafe Imports, and since 2018 it has worked with France's Belco.
The orange Giesen runs in the middle of the shop under two steel flues, beside shelves of amber cupping jars, and a long counter in light blue subway tile faces a communal table under a steel mezzanine.
