{"id":3693,"date":"2015-08-22T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T12:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asitanerestaurant.com\/English\/?page_id=3693"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:36:29","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asitanerestaurant.com\/English\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Asitane Restaurant<\/p>\n<p>Ottoman Palace Cuisine<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3706 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asitanerestaurant.com\/English\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sultans-dishes.jpg\" alt=\"sultans-dishes\" width=\"250\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asitanerestaurant.com\/English\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sultans-dishes.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.asitanerestaurant.com\/English\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sultans-dishes-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Since 1991 it has been bringing the forgotten tastes to the present with its summer and winter menus offered by adding more than 200 historical receipts to its archive and using numerous original sources such as dinner and dessert expenditure records of Topkap\u0131, Dolmabah\u00e7e and Edirne Palace; record books of important feasts; books written by foreign government officers and people from various occupational groups; documents from Libraries of Beyaz\u0131t and Millet in Istanbul; a work dated November, 1539 and named \u201cA Feast Book\u201d belonging to the circumcision feast of Suleiman the Magnificents\u2019 sons Beyaz\u0131d and Cihangir in Palace of Edirne; literary texts of festivals; and old Ottoman dictionaries.<\/p>\n<p>In order to keep the forgotten tastes of Ottomans alive, Asitane organizes special periodical dinner weeks such as \u201cMeals from Period of Mehmet the Conqueror\u201d, \u201cAphrodisiac Meals of Ottoman Palaces\u201d, \u201cFish and See Food in Ottoman Palaces\u201d. Asitane Restaurant located on the garden floor of a restorated Ottoman Mansion just next to Kariye Museum in Edirnekap\u0131 serves its precious guests with its enclosed space of 120 person capacity and with its summer garden of 130 person capacity. In our restaurant open everyday between 12.00 and 23.30 we also provide catering service for wedding ceremonies, invitations and special days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asitane Restaurant Ottoman Palace Cuisine Since 1991 it has been bringing the forgotten tastes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5069,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asitanerestaurant.com\/English\/about-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About Us - 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