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Cansu Cantas opens her 2026 programme of meze by day, brunch by the river on Sundays, and supper club with music into the blue hour at Flussbad Oberer Letten, Zurich, 15 May to early September.
Lokum returns to Zurich for a second summer, and an evolved kitchen. The Sicilian winter changed it. Over the winter, Cansu spent weeks in Sicily, cooking and eating across the city. What had been a Turkish project began to pick up the rhythms of the wider Mediterranean: Olive oil and citrus, anchovy and capers, basil warm from the sun. From 15 May (first two weeks soft opening) to early September 2026, that energy moves to the Limmat.
In Turkish, lokum gibi describes anything that feels effortlessly right. A sweet that melts on the tongue. A moment that arrives without trying. It is the phrase Cansu Cantas grew up hearing in her family kitchen in Ankara, and the idea she has spent the last two years bringing to Zurich.
“I grew up in a kitchen where the table was never small and the evening was never planned”, says Cansu Cantas. “Lokum is what happens when you bring that into a Zurich summer. Sometimes that means meze after a swim. Sometimes it means a long table that turns into a concert.”
The 2026 programme runs in three connected rhythms across one stretch of water.
By day, Lido. A meze bar at the Lette Badi, opening from midday, in the public rhythm of the river. Guests arrive with wet hair from the swim and sit down to a tepsi, the traditional Turkish tray of small dishes. Four meze with salad, simit and a grilled skewer. Köfte, fish, or a vegetarian Spiessli. A long-picknick version and a shorter Tasting.
The drinks list is Mediterranean and intentionally simple. Turkish classics, ice-cold and housemade: ayran and çay brewed on a semaver. Alongside Italian-inspired Lido Special Mocktails, and a small alcohol-free selection of wine and beer.
On Sundays from 7 June, Lido Sunday Brunch turns the same setting into a Mediterranean brunch by the water, slow and shared and unhurried. The menu changes through the season as the kitchen finds its rhythm.
By day, the food stays rooted in Turkish tradition. At Blue hour, it opens into a wider Mediterranean conversation. Contemporary without losing warmth.
On six selected evenings between 29 May and 4 September, Limmat Delight introduces a different expression of the kitchen. A long-table dinner that turns into a concert. Maximum of ninety guests on the terrace by the water, seated together as if at one table.
Here, the Sicilian winter comes into play. An Italian-Turkish fusion menu, shared, served in courses across the evening. No à la carte, no separate drinks list. Wine or beer, water and a welcome bubble. No choices to make at the table.
The dinner unfolds slowly, then dissolves into music as the sky goes dark over the river. A DJ set, a small intimate concert, or both. Guests stay, move, dance, listen. The 2026 line-up moves between live acts and DJ sets, between Zurich and Istanbul and London and beyond, beginning with Kit Sebastian on 29 May, marking Lokum’s first anniversary in Zurich.
The first season was talked about more than it was advertised. The opening night sold out before the doors first opened. Across the year, Lokum served over four thousand guests. Instagram grew organically to over five thousand.
The summer 2026 programme is the project’s most ambitious chapter yet.
It begins on 15 May at the Lido Meze Bar
It begins again on 29 May with Limmat Delight Supperclub
It begins again on the 7 June with Sunday Lido Brunch
It runs through August and closes in early September.
Appendix — Limmat Delight 2026
Supperclub & Music at the Lette Badi, Lettensteg 10, Zurich. Five to six evenings of Italian- Turkish fusion. Long-table dinners that turn into concerts. Seventy to ninety guests. One shared menu, one ticket.
Friday, 29 May. Kit Sebastian, DJ set. One year of Lokum. Anniversary edition.
Friday, 12 June. MESUT3000
Tickets, pre-orders for Meze Bar & Brunch and full programme at https://www.lok-um.ch/
Venue adress
Flussbad Oberer Letten - c/o Lette Badi, Lettensteg 10, 8037 Zürich
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Press contact:
Cansu Cantas and the LOKUM teamE: popup@lok-um.ch
https://www.lok-um.ch/
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