Tarihi Mutfak Lokantası

About Tarihi Mutfak Lokantası

Tarihi Mutfak Lokantası is a long-running Ankara restaurant on Mithatpaşa Caddesi in Kızılay, known above all for büryan kebab, lamb cooked over a wood fire. The restaurant's own social media accounts carry the year 1945, the date it traces its story back to. According to the Online Türkiye Turizm Ansiklopedisi, the restaurant was founded in Ulus in 1945 by a Turkish citizen of Albanian origin and was taken over in 1947 by Cahit Doğangir. Until 1967 it traded opposite the old Grand National Assembly building in Ulus; after a fire in the arcade where it stood, it moved to the Şehir Çarşısı, also in Ulus. It has been in Kızılay since 1994. After Cahit Doğangir died in 1996, the business passed to his son İlker Murat Doğangir and his partner Fırat Deniz, who had started at the restaurant as a waiter in 1978. The house speciality is büryan kebabı. The encyclopedia notes that the kitchen uses lamb for it, cooks it over a wood fire and has bought its meat from the same supplier since 1973. The menu also covers pide and grills, and the other signature dish is tavuk germeç: a chicken split in two, boned, marinated and then cooked on the grill like a steak. Künefe is the dessert the restaurant is best known for, and its own posts present tandır as a full sit-down meal. The restaurant sits in the busy streets just off Kızılay's main square, within walking distance of Kızılay metro station, which makes it an easy lunch stop for anyone visiting the city centre. It takes phone orders on +90 312 418 75 00.