[1] Lebon was a French chef at the Embassy of France in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

[1][further explanation needed] After the death of Edouard Lebon in 1937, his Ottoman Greek chef aid Kostas Litopoulos took over the management of the shop.

[6] In the 1920s, tiled wall panels decorated in Art Nouveau style with a four seasons theme were ordered from France for the purpose of changing the interior design.

[2][3][5] Some wealthy European travelers, who came to Istanbul by Orient Express train, and prominent local people like poets Ahmet Haşim (1884?–1933),[5] Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), Abdülhak Hâmid (1852–1937),[2] Yahya Kemal (1884–1958),[3] writers Namık Kemal (1840–1888), Ziya Pasha (1829–1880), İbrahim Şinasi (1826–1871) and French novelist Pierre Loti (1850–1923) were among the visitors of the Lebon Patisserie & Café.

In the previous location, Avedis Ohanyan Çakır opened the "Markiz Patisserie", named after the Marquise de Sévigné chocolate shop in Paris.