Funda Pastaneleri

About Funda Pastaneleri

Funda Pastaneleri is one of Ankara's long-established patisseries, open since 1959. This listing is its Gaziosmanpaşa shop on Kuleli Sokağı, which the company lists first among its current branches; the others are in the Panora shopping centre in Oran and, since 2025, at the TONA Residence in İncek. The company tells a long family story. In the 1800s members of the Tarakçı family left Çamlıhemşin in Rize, whose terrain made farming hard, for Moscow, where they worked as bakers; later generations moved into patisserie, opening shops in Yalta before returning to Turkey after the Russian revolution. In Ankara İbrahim Tarakçı opened Meram Pastanesi in 1948, and in 1959 Bülent Tarakçı, his brother Günhan and partners Hüseyin and Bekir Kutlu opened Funda Pastanesi in Akay, later adding shops in Çankaya and Gaziosmanpaşa. A 2025 study of Ankara's patisseries between 1950 and 1980 picks out Funda and Flamingo as the two that kept going as the city's centre shifted. In 2024 Emine Tarakçı and her family took over the Gaziosmanpaşa and Panora shops. The counter covers cream gâteaux such as almond-chocolate, pineapple-almond, strawberry German cake and a pumpkin cake with walnut sauce, cheesecake, individual cakes and mini pastries, sweet and savoury biscuits, börek and yeasted pastries, loaf cakes, syrup-soaked and milk-based desserts, chocolates and celebration cakes. The company says it aims to keep the old favourites while adding modern recipes, and the shop is a classic stop for a pastry and tea in the embassy district of Gaziosmanpaşa.