Cafe entertainment in Central Anatolia
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Papirüs Cafeteria
A student crowd (male and female, we promise) gathers here to take advantage of the delightfully authentic setting – it's housed in a historic mansion off Atatürk Bulvarı – and swap numbers in the leafy courtyard. Don't miss the ancient frescoes in the upstairs rooms.
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Arasta Lonca Kahvesi
This is one of the town's most congenial places for a coffee, but it's in the thick of the arasta action, so you pay for the atmosphere (çay TL2.50); head to the backstreets for a quieter, cheaper cuppa.
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Café Zeugma
With its backlit carvings and strobes, this cavernous cultural centre is quite popular with students for its live music.
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Café des Cafés
Trust the moniker and stick to the hot drinks and sweet crepes, then sit on the red-and-white sofa and sharpen up your people-watching skills.
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Simit Bahane
An antidote to Kızılay's smoother establishments, with backgammon, newspapers and nargilehs (traditional water pipes) providing the entertainment.
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Osmanlı Çarşısı
Looking like an apple-smoke-spewing pirate ship, this early-20th-century house has terraces and seats on the street, where students talk politics or just inhale a lungful.
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Meydan
This central hang-out is popular with young guys who sit outside playing backgammon. The menu features gözleme (savoury pancake), çeşiterli (Turkish pancake) and çorba. The menu has English translations.
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Fidan Café
This smoky 1st-floor cafe is run by an amicable couple, with paintings by their grandchildren on the wall.
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Aylak Madam
A super cool French bistro/cafe with a mean weekend brunch (from 10am to 2.30pm), plus sandwiches and headkicking cappuccinos to a kickback jazz-fusion soundtrack. Postgraduates and artists swing open laptops and tap pens against half-finished manuscripts; other customers cuddle.
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And Evi Cafe
Sit on the citadel walls and enjoy fabulous views at this Ottoman-style cafe near Angora House Hotel. The carrot cake (TL6) is deliciously moist.
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Adana Şalgamacısı – Gürbüz Usta
See the heaps of grapefruit, banana and orange on the counter at this buzzing hole-in-the-wall? They're just waiting to be squeezed. Try the delicious atom (an explosive mixture of milk, honey, banana, hazelnuts and pistachio).
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