İclal Mutfağı

About İclal Mutfağı

İclal Mutfağı is a small home-cooking restaurant on Güvenlik Caddesi in Aşağı Ayrancı, describing itself on Instagram as a boutique restaurant where you can find healthy and tasty home-style dishes in Ankara. Its Facebook page, under the name İclal Lezzet Evi, calls it a rare boutique lokanta making real Ankara home cooking. The restaurant was opened in 2006 by İclal Aydın, a retired civil servant and economics graduate who grew up in Ankara. In a July 2025 interview with Ayrancım, the newsletter of the Ayrancı neighbourhood association, she explained that she had always loved hosting guests and decided, ten years after retiring, to share her cooking with the neighbourhood. The article presents the lokanta as a place where local residents, including many who live alone, come for home-cooked food and neighbourly warmth. According to that interview, the kitchen prepares around 42 items each day: two main dishes, one meat-based and one vegetable-based, along with soup, pilaf and meat kavurma every day, olive-oil dishes, salads, desserts and biscuits. Menus are planned a month ahead, and each dish is cooked as a single pot or tray; once it runs out it is not made again that day, just as at home. Practical notes: the restaurant is on Güvenlik Caddesi in Aşağı Ayrancı, Çankaya; sources give the door number variously as 65/D and 67/D. Opening hours are not published, so it is worth checking before a visit.