The May Bakery

The May Bakery is a café-bakery folded into Moda, the seaside Kadıköy quarter where mornings still move at walking pace. It sits among the low streets of Moda, Kadıköy, Istanbul, close enough to the water that the light shifts by the hour.

Without a named chef on the masthead, the room itself does the talking: a pastry case of careful sweets, a measured coffee bar, and tables spaced for lingering rather than turnover. The mix is classic Moda—third-wave cups beside bakery work—aimed at neighbors who treat the counter as a daily stop, not a spectacle.

Oggusto filed the opening, and the Instagram handle the.maybakery is the live camera for hours and what left the oven that morning. The room is why you go, and the street is why it feels like Istanbul.