Amasya Tatlı Evi (Sweets House)

Amasya Tatlı Evi (Sweets House) operates as a traditional pastane and sweets counter in the old bazaar quarter of Amasya, offering the full range of Turkish confectionery alongside the city's own sweets traditions. Among the most interesting items on the counter is unutmabeni — whose name translates as "forget-me-not" — a local sweet unique to Amasya made from layers of dough with a nut and sugar filling, flavoured with a proprietary blend of spices that gives it a distinctly floral quality absent from standard baklava. Fıstıklı baklava (pistachio-filled filo dough soaked in sugar syrup) represents the national tradition; at Tatlı Evi it is prepared with real Gaziantep pistachios, as the colour and depth of flavour immediately reveal. Kadayıf (shredded wheat pastry over cheese or walnuts, saturated with syrup) is sold by the portion and is recommended warm, topped with fresh kaymak. Helva — both tahini-based and semolina-based variants — rounds out the menu as a drier, less intensely sweet alternative for those who find syrup-soaked confectionery too rich. The shop interior is a glass-fronted display counter with trays of confectionery arranged in rows; customers choose by weight or by portion. A small number of standing tables or plastic chairs allow for on-site consumption. Çay is available alongside. Prices at ₺60–180 per portion are fair for confectionery of this quality.