Çorbacı Hasan Usta Çakırlar

About Çorbacı Hasan Usta Çakırlar

Çorbacı Hasan Usta is a round-the-clock soup restaurant, and this is its branch in Çakırlar, on the Batıkent side of Yenimahalle. The business's own website advertises it as open 7/24 and names just three branches, in Etlik (Aşağıeğlence), Balgat and Çakırlar, stressing that it has no others. Soup is the point here. The house speciality, the Meşhur Çorba, is a lentil-based soup made to Hasan Usta's own recipe and served with a scattering of fresh greens and toasted bread. The menu also covers the traditional late-night Turkish soups: işkembe (tripe), simmered for five hours and served with a garlic and vinegar sauce and Urfa pepper; kelle paça and ayak paça, cooked for six hours in bone broth and finished with an Antep-style sauce; tuzlama and damar; and the Atom, which combines several of them in one bowl. There is also plain bone broth, beyran, a grilled chicken soup and a Maraş-style yoghurt soup. For something more filling, a short grill menu cooks chicken şiş, chicken wings and köfte (plain, spicy or with kaşar cheese) over oak charcoal, and a whole butterflied chicken has been added recently. Drinks include frothy yayık ayran and şalgam, and there are milk-based and syrup desserts of the day. Practical notes: the Çakırlar branch can be reached on +90 312 256 99 88. Because it never closes, it is a useful stop after a late night or before an early start.