AyMe Karadeniz

About AyMe Karadeniz

AyMe Karadeniz is a family-run Black Sea (Karadeniz) restaurant in the Ankara Ticaret Merkezi block in Çukurambar. It is run by Ayten and Memiş Bostan, a couple from Rize, together with their son İslam Bostan. According to the restaurant, the family has been cooking in Ankara since 2008 and spent about ten years in the Gazi neighbourhood before moving to its current home in Çukurambar. The restaurant's own account stresses ingredients from home: its butter, honey, cheese, the kavurma used on its pide, red-spotted brook trout and dried beans are brought from Rize, and the family insists that someone from the Black Sea is always in the kitchen. Dishes named on its website include İspir dried beans, red-spotted trout, Laz böreği (the region's custard pastry), the house special pide, meatballs baked on a clay tile, a cook's platter, Karadeniz yağlısı, eggs with kavurma, menemen with mince, muhlama (the stretchy cheese and cornmeal fondue of the Black Sea), cigarette börek and cornbread. Its Google Maps entry lists it as a breakfast and pide house, so it works for a late Black Sea breakfast as well as lunch or an early dinner. Expect Black Sea music in the background and a homely atmosphere. The restaurant's Instagram profile gives working hours of 09:00 to 21:30 and two reservation lines, 0312 227 53 53 and 0312 227 06 53.