Tarihi Tencere Köftecisi: From Edirne’s Street Flavor to Turkey’s Table

Tarihi Tencere Köftecisi was born with the fragrant smell that once echoed through the streets of Edirne and rose from the mobile meatball carts. In the 1950s and 60s, mobile meatball sellers wandering through the side streets of Edirne, in the shadow of its historic bridges and in its old neighborhoods, used to sell their pot meatballs by arranging them on trays. These unique meatballs, cooked on small carts and mobile stalls, were a flavor stop at the busiest points of the city, where people came running from all over the city and could get their fill with a few pennies in their pockets.

However, over time, this taste culture gradually disappeared with the changing city structure and modernization. The mobile meatball sellers who prepared these meatballs cooked in pots in the narrow streets of Edirne disappeared one by one. Meatballs in pots, which remained in the memories as one of the most popular street flavors of the people for years, lived as a taste in the memories of only a few people.

As Tarihi Tencere Köftecisi, our aim was to resurface this lost street flavor, revive the spirit of the itinerant meatball sellers and bring the meatball culture to everyone with a modern understanding. We have established such a system that today we carry the nostalgic taste of meatballs from the streets of Edirne to tables all over Turkey.

We produce our pot meatballs in modern hygiene standards while staying true to the tradition of street flavor, and we ensure that the public can easily access this flavor with our affordable price policy. We aim to keep alive not only flavor but also a cultural heritage.

With our franchise system, we have made our cost-effective and small-square-meter shops accessible to entrepreneurs. With the slogan “Meatballs for Everyone, Bread for Everyone”, we both keep this unique street flavor of Edirne alive and support anyone who wants to start their own business. Thanks to the low-cost investment and easy management model, we do not limit this flavor heritage to Edirne; we aim to spread it all over Turkey.

Today, with Tarihi Tencere Köftecisi, we are reviving the forgotten meatball culture of Edirne and presenting this culture to our people not only as a nostalgic memory but also as a real taste stop. We set out to relive those old days when the smell of meatballs cooking in a small car in a pot spread and to make everyone taste this flavor.

Don’t forget the forgotten street flavor of Edirne! Come and taste the meatballs cooked in our pot and bring this nostalgic flavor to your table!