Uludağ Kebapçısı

About Uludağ Kebapçısı

Uludağ Kebapçısı is one of the long-running names of Ankara's old town dining scene, and its flagship still stands on Denizciler Caddesi in Ulus, the street where the business began. Burhan Uludağ opened it in 1956 as a tiny lokanta with four tables and 16 chairs beneath the Numune Palas hotel. About a year and a half later it moved into a two-storey, 250-seat restaurant on the same street, and in 1995, around its 40th year, it moved again into the modern eight-storey building it occupies today. The house speciality, served since 1956, is the Uludağ kebabı: thin slices of döner over pide, finished with a buttery tomato sauce, in the İskender style. According to the Türkiye Turizm Ansiklopedisi, the brand sources its meat from Thrace and its cream from Gönen. The wider menu covers grilled meats such as fillet and mixed grills, Uludağ köfte, chicken şiş, Circassian chicken and other cold starters, and desserts like tel kadayıf. The Ulus restaurant is the company's headquarters; the brand has since added branches in Çayyolu, Panora (Oran) and Gaziosmanpaşa, plus one in Florya, Istanbul. The Ulus site is a short walk from the Ulus and Sıhhiye area, which makes it an easy lunch stop when visiting Ulus Square, the Hacı Bayram quarter or the citadel. The restaurant's website lists daily opening hours of 11:30 to midnight.