Bizim Ev Mardin Mutfağı

About Bizim Ev Mardin Mutfağı

Bizim Ev (Our Home) is a small restaurant in Ümitköy that cooks the traditional home-style pot dishes of Mardin, in south-eastern Turkey. The restaurant says it was founded out of a wish to serve these Mardin recipes in Ankara with the warmth of a home kitchen, and it presents itself as a mother-and-daughter venture, keeping alive recipes handed down through the generations. The menu changes every day, with daily meat, chicken and vegetable dishes that can also be ordered as set menus. The fixed menu leans on Mardin specialities: sembusek, içli köfte (boiled, fried or in the Syriac style), stuffed tripe (kibe), mumbar dolması, lamb kuru dolma (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) and Mardin dobo, served on Saturdays. There is also lamb shank, a Diyarbakır-style lamb güveç, beef kavurma, sac tava, aubergine musakka and İspir beans, along with mantı, grilled köfte and chicken, olive oil dishes and almond iç pilav. Sharing plates include a cook plate of three mains with rice and a Mardin plate of içli köfte, sembusek, güveç and pilaf. Desserts are walnut kahiye and crispy pumpkin. Practical notes: the restaurant is in the Mutluköy estate in Mutlukent, near the Ümitköy metro stop. It opens Monday to Saturday from 11:30 to 21:00 and is closed on Sundays. Phone 0312 235 99 44 or 0506 235 99 44.