Petek Pastanesi (Dörtyol)

Dörtyol lies at the northern end of Hatay province, where the plain narrows between the Amanos mountains and the gulf, and this Petek Pastanesi shop stands on İnönü Caddesi, the town's main road, at number 32. The company records it as 'Petek Dörtyol – Sanayi'. The house behind it began in İskenderun. Its founder trained in pastry in Moscow, left after the October Revolution, spent seven years running his own patisserie in Tehran, bought a bakery in İskenderun in 1939, and opened as a patisserie proper on 19 May 1942 with four tables and sixteen chairs. The fourth generation of the family runs it today, with branches in İzmir, Trabzon and Osmaniye in addition to Hatay. The counter here carries the full catalogue: nut pastes, sugar-free desserts, handmade chocolates and madlen boxes, künefe and kadayıf, baklava, Turkish delight, dried fruit and nuts, and gift packaging. There is also a regional shelf drawn from Hatay's kitchen — ready-to-bake Antakya kömbe dough, kaytaz böreği in minced-beef and pepper-and-curd versions, içli köfte, the aged cheese sürk, pomegranate molasses, cold-pressed olive oil — and Turkish coffee packed under the house name.