Çatı Açık Büfe Konutkent

About Çatı Açık Büfe Konutkent

Çatı Açık Büfe began about 20 years ago in a student-residence canteen at Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ), cooking home-style dishes for students who missed their mothers' food. People liked it, made suggestions, and the range kept growing; today the chain serves around 120 different items at once across eight branches in Ankara, most of them on or near university campuses. The Konutkent branch, in the Konutkent 1 Çarşısı shopping arcade, brings the formula to the western suburbs near Ümitköy and Çayyolu. It works on a cold-service open-buffet concept: you fill a takeaway container with whatever you like, as much or as little as you want, it is weighed at the till and you pay by weight, then reheat it there or take it home. Chicken and köfte dishes are priced at their own per-100-gram rates. Expect everyday Turkish home cooking such as soups, pulses and rice, salads and meze, plus pastries and cakes; the chain's Instagram also shows ready meals from its Çatı To Go range. The buffet runs every day from 09:30 to 20:30, and the branch closes half an hour after the buffet. Meal cards (yemek kartı) are accepted. It is a handy, budget-friendly option for a quick lunch or a no-fuss dinner to take home.