Çorbacı Hasan Usta Etlik

About Çorbacı Hasan Usta Etlik

Çorbacı Hasan Usta is a round-the-clock soup restaurant, and this is its Etlik branch, on General Doktor Tevfik Sağlam Caddesi in the Aşağı Eğlence area of Keçiören. The business advertises on its own website that it is 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 a recipe of Hasan Usta 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. 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 Etlik branch can be reached on +90 312 321 46 46. Because it never closes, it is a useful stop after a late night or before an early start.