Rispetto Coffee Co.

About Rispetto Coffee Co.

Rispetto Coffee Co. is a small specialty coffee shop on a side street in Yukarı Bahçelievler, the student-and-café neighbourhood west of Kızılay. Its name is Italian for "respect", and the café frames itself as a place that brings Italian coffee tradition together with modern specialty coffee. Bahçelievler now has a dense cluster of coffee shops, but the coffee magazine Sprudge reported in its 2024 Ankara guide that, by most accounts, Rispetto was the city's first specialty coffee shop. Founder Nihan Aytar left a career as a food engineer after discovering specialty coffee, and told Sprudge that the café's heart is filter coffee; on Sprudge's visit she was pouring a natural-process Colombian roasted by Istanbul's Coffee Department, and regulars were greeted by name. The menu runs from espresso and cappuccino to single-origin filter coffee and cold brew. On the food side, the café is known for its handmade brownie, alongside cakes and seasonal cheesecakes made fresh each day, pistachio desserts, pastries and cookies. Coffee directories list Wi-Fi, a laptop-friendly room and outdoor seating, and describe it as welcoming to children and dogs. Rispetto opens from 10:30 to 22:30 Monday to Saturday and from 13:00 on Sundays, so it suits a late-morning coffee or an evening dessert. Several other specialty cafés and roasters are a few minutes' walk away, making the area a good one for a coffee crawl.