In the latest Open & Shut: two women’s clothing stores become one, two siblings open a reimagined Turkish restaurant and Bed Bath & Beyond is closing in Anchorage.
Zeynep Kilic and Engin Kilic, co-owners of Turkish Delight, an Anchorage eatery that reopened early this month with new ownership and an expanded menu. Two Anchorage siblings with a passion for cooking their native Turkish food purchased this restaurant late last year near the intersection of Lake Otis Parkway and Northern Lights Boulevard.
To open the restaurant, Zeynep left her longtime job as a sociology and food studies professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Engin co-owns a gift shop in the Hilton Anchorage hotel downtown. The new store, which adjoins the factory where their bars are made, sells chocolate samplers, hot chocolate, brownie mixes, truffles and other items. It’s off 59th Avenue, near Dowling Road and Arctic Boulevard.“We were getting ready to open it up when COVID hit, and we knew it wouldn’t be feasible,” Ryan said.“If feels like this has been a long time coming because it was planned for so long,” he said of the store.
Wild Starr Creations owners Linda Burke and her daughter Angel Ochoa, photographed at their store in Anchorage on Thursday, May 25, 2023. The storefront is at 523 W. Fourth Ave., almost directly across the street from the log cabin visitor center.
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