Rumeli İşkembecisi

About Rumeli İşkembecisi

Rumeli İşkembecisi is one of Ankara's best-known tripe soup houses, a soup kitchen and lokanta on Bayındır-1 Sokak in Kızılay. İşkembe çorbası, the tripe soup Turks traditionally reach for late at night or after an evening out, is what it is famous for. The restaurant's own history page says it was founded in 1945 in a modest room with just four tables, and lists the moves it has made since: Hamamönü in 1945, Denizciler Caddesi in 1951, the Şehir Çarşısı in Ulus in 1958, Sakarya Caddesi in Kızılay in 1961 and Bayındır Sokak in Kızılay from 1968, with later openings in Maltepe, in Karaköy in Istanbul and on Bestekar Sokak in Kavaklıdere. An old advertisement reproduced on its website describes the Bayındır Sokak soup hall as open 24 hours, serving işkembe, kokoreç, tandır and baş paça. Today the business has two Ankara branches, this one in Kızılay and another on Bestekar Caddesi in Kavaklıdere, and it says it serves around the clock. A Hürriyet piece quoted on its website calls it the place to go in Ankara for tripe soup at night, and notes that it gets crowded but the service is fast. Alongside the soups it works as a lokanta, with a wider menu of hot dishes. The Kızılay branch is on Bayındır-1 Sokak in the heart of the city centre; it takes takeaway and phone orders on +90 312 431 34 48.