Hatça Ana Mantı

About Hatça Ana Mantı

Hatça Ana Mantı is a mantı house that dates itself to 1958 and calls itself a "tarihi mantıcı", a historic mantı maker. According to the restaurant, it welcomed its customers in Dikmen for nearly half a century, and after a break of some years it reopened, with the same recipes and the same approach to service, at Rota İncek, the shopping and office complex on Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Bulvarı in Alacaatlı. Its motto describes it as a table kneaded by one woman's labour and carried on with love through the generations. Mantı is the heart of the menu. The house version, Hatça Ana Klasik Mantı, is joined by çıtır (crispy) mantı, Şifa mantı, Sinop mantı, classic mantı with roasted walnuts, and versions with potato or with chickpeas; when ordering, guests are asked to say whether they want the tomato-paste sauce and whether their yoghurt should come with or without garlic. Çi börek, the restaurant says, always has a special place here, and it is sold by the piece with minced meat, white cheese or çeçil cheese fillings. Other dishes include boiled içli köfte, yağlama, stuffed vine leaves with meat (etli yaprak sarma) and a soup of the day, and a four-person tray has recently been added to the menu. Orders and enquiries go through the restaurant's mobile number, +90 540 088 19 58.