Pudding Shop’s

Idris Çolpan and his brother Namik opened Lale Pastahanesi in 1957.

At the time The Pudding Shop was the only place in the area
the adventurous could get direct transport to Asia
and tourist information on Turkey.

Just opposite the Blue Mosque, for instance, there is a place called the Pudding Shop, a restaurant and garden and meeting place where a youthful traveler might negotiate a ride in the 1970’s to Aphganistan or Nepal. The Pudding Shop, they used to say, marked the start of the quot;hippie trailquot; that led many young Americans and Europeans east