More than a century old history of Haci Abdullah Restaurant's root goes to Akhism Organization (an organized brothership relation in Anatolia related to trade guilds.) Traditional establishments  either pass from father to son or are bought by another establishment to change hands. At Haci Abdullah Restaurant these ways are not applicable. The adventure of Haci Abdullah Restaurant started in 1888 and still survives from the master to the apprentice.
The restaurant where protected Ottoman-Turkish culinary, kept its quality either under the name of Abdullah Efendi or Haci Salih, moved today's location next to Aga Mosque, Sakizagaci Road in 1958. Haci Salih Restaurant's owner Haci Salih, because of his age, left here to his apprentices in 1983. The name of Haci Salih always kept honour of quality but because of the official procedure the restaurant's name has to be changed and took the 1888's name of Haci Abdullah.
It was Sultan Abdulhamid II's personal choice and since then we kept the same quality and the same taste. You can find all this information between the pages of the book of honour that Ottoman Sultan's grandchildren wrote there their sincerely feelings