George Mardikian

George Magar Mardikian was an ArmenianAmerican restaurateur, chef, author and philanthropist who opened the wellknown Omar Khayyams restaurant in San Francisco, California, in 1938. He is the nephew of Armenian Revolutionary Krikor Amirian.

Mardikian was born on November 7, 1903, in Bayburt, in what was then the Ottoman Empire, to Magar Mardikian and Haiganoush Amirian. Mardikian grew up in the city of Scutari, an Armenian community in Constantinople. Mardikians paternal family was one of warriorshence their family name in Armenian, Mardik translates to warrior. His maternal family, the Amirians, was an influential and powerful family in Bayburt. Mardikians mother also was the eldest sibling of his idol, Krikor Amirian.

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