Pâte à Choux Tunalı

About Pâte à Choux Tunalı

Pâte à Choux Tunalı is the Tunalı Hilmi branch of an Ankara patisserie built around choux pastry, on Güniz Sokak in Barbaros Mahallesi. The brand also has a shop at Bilkent Station. Its name is written Pâte à Choux and pronounced pataşu. The brand explains that pâte à choux is a French pastry dough, known in Turkish pastry-making as şu hamuru and best known today as the base of profiteroles and éclairs. It makes the dough to its own recipe and pairs it with seasonal fruit such as pumpkin, strawberry, forest fruits and apple, and with flavours from Turkish culture such as pistachio, candied chestnut, honey and kaymak, finished with sauces made with Belgian chocolate. Oggusto's guide to the best patisseries in Ankara lists more than ten choux varieties, a gluten-free San Sebastian cheesecake made with Madagascar vanilla, and speciality coffees. It notes that the chocolate is Belgian Callebaut and that everything is made daily without additives, and it singles out the apple and pumpkin choux, the latter with crisp pumpkin pieces typical of Hatay and a touch of tahini and molasses. The guide describes a minimal interior with classical music, and says the shop is walk-in only and can be busy at weekends. The brand's Instagram profile gives hours of 10:00 to 22:00 from Sunday to Thursday and 10:00 to 23:00 on Friday and Saturday.