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Bosna İşkembe Lokanta ve Kebap Salonu
This all-hours place is scarily popular and, thankfully, not as grim as some of its rivals.
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Boyacızâde Konağı
Not far from the museum, the Boyacızâde is another wonderfully converted mansion-restaurant with great views, typical Ottoman-stalgic décor and a good line in fish dishes. Turkish classical, or fasıl , music provides the entertainment.
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Café des Cafés
Another dash of culinary flair from foreign parts of the Med, the CdC offers ambitious bistro dishes from quesadilla to salmon and arugula .
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Can Balık
A popular alternative to pricey fish restaurants, the classiest things here are the Coke ads, but the Piscean menu works perfectly.
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Galeri
The breezy booths above street level here are popular with couples, while the mixed brasserie-style menu has treats from breakfasts and salads to cheesecake, all ambitiously presented.
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Göksu Restaurant
Fine dining with uniformed staff and a terrace discreetly shielded from the street by glass and vines. It's popular with besuited blokes guzzling mezes and rakı (aniseed-flavoured grape brandy).
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Hatipoğlu Konağı
The touristy set menus here are good value, but watch those steps if you go for the unlimited-alcohol option! Acoustic groups play here every day except Sunday. To find it, come out of the citadel through the Parmak Kapısı and turn left.
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Kale Washington
Spliced together from two 17th-century houses, the Washington is a favourite with visiting dignitaries (Hillary Clinton reportedly ate here once) and other aspirational types, who come to chow down on Turkish-international food. Staff sometimes give as much attitude as they get, but as long as you're not a complete scruffbag it's not over-snobby.
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Köşk
Specialising in fish, the Köşk cultivates a slightly staid air to please the decorum-minded older diners that form its core demographic, though at Euro1.40 the beer's cheap enough to enthuse the younger crowd as well.
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Mezzaluna
The capital's classiest Italian restaurant impresses as soon as you walk in the door, with interior design by Roberto Magris and a real Italian chef at the pass. There's a second branch in the suburb of Bilkent.
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Tapa Tapa Tapas
The chef plays it a bit safe with the chilli and with the booze level of the sangria (Euro3.50), but the sheer novelty of finding albondigas and patatas bravas in Turkey doesn't wear off fast. Pasta, crêpes and grills round out the menu.
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Urfalı Hacı Mehmet
A welcome haven for family and female diners, kept clean and bright for maximum enjoyment of an extensive fast-food menu.
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Wok
Achingly fashionable, this mixed Oriental bar-restaurant above a BMW showroom supplements its pan-Asian menu with sophisticated European dishes and electronic music. For added entertainment, certain tables get a view of the kitchen action.
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Zenger Paşa Konağı
Built in 1721 for governor Mehmet Fuat Paşa, the Zenger Paşa was the first restaurant of its kind in Ankara, restored and masterminded by a TV executive with a keen eye for the tourist market. Meals are still cooked in the original oven, and the whole place is crammed with Ottoman ephemera. There's live music every evening to complement the perfect citadel views.
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