Günaydın Kebap & Steakhouse Çankaya

About Günaydın Kebap & Steakhouse Çankaya

Günaydın is one of Turkey's best-known meat restaurant chains, with branches from Istanbul and Bodrum to Baku, Dubai and Doha. It grew out of a butcher's shop in Bostancı, Istanbul, and its founder, Cüneyt Asan, began working life as a butcher's apprentice at the age of ten. Its Ankara restaurant opened in Gaziosmanpaşa, on Attar Sokak just off Arjantin Caddesi, and today it is the brand's Çankaya branch, billed as a combined butcher, kebab house and steakhouse. The butcher heritage is the point. When the restaurant opened, Mayatta described a counter where butchers prepare orders while the grill team cooks the cuts guests choose: New York steak, T-bone, fillet, lamb loin and lamb chops among them, with the option to buy meat by the kilo to cook at home. The dining room was designed with plenty of wood and natural stone. On the kebab side, Günaydın's signatures include Adana kebab, dürüm beyti, mixed grill and lamb çöp şiş (small skewered lamb), and for dessert there is the house special katmer. Günaydın has two other Ankara restaurants, in Çayyolu and at Armada shopping centre, so check you are booking the Gaziosmanpaşa branch. Reservations are taken by phone.