Konakbay Çibörek Mantı

About Konakbay Çibörek Mantı

Konakbay Çibörek Mantı is a small family-run restaurant in Balgat devoted to the cooking of the Crimean Tatars. It describes itself as a family business of some twenty years, serving "real çibörek and mantı" and carrying on the heritage of Crimea, and its own Facebook page says it has been in Balgat for a full twenty years. The house speciality is çibörek (also spelled çiğ börek): a large half-moon pastry of thin dough filled with raw seasoned minced meat and fried until crisp, so that the filling cooks in its own juices inside. Konakbay also calls it "tabak börek", the plate-sized börek, and serves it alongside Tatar-style mantı, the hand-made dumplings that are the other pillar of the menu. The restaurant tags its posts with Crimean Tatar cuisine and Tatar mantı, and it has been featured by several Ankara food bloggers as a place to try Tatar dishes in the capital. It is a simple, homely place suited to lunch or an early dinner. The restaurant also has a second outlet listed as Konakbay Taurus. Its older website, konakbay.com.tr, was not loading when checked, so the Instagram account (@ciborekci) is the most current place to check opening times and the daily menu before visiting.