Yiti Kahve

Selected beans, brewed with intent

Yiti Kahve builds its counter on selected beans, özel çekirdekler in the shop's own words, roasted fresh and put through brew methods treated as part of the offer rather than as a technicality behind the counter. The house line for all of it is that every cup at Yiti is a small signature, and the menu behaves accordingly: coffee is the subject, the preparation is meant to be noticed, and the list stays short enough that nothing on it is filler.

That focus makes the first order easy. Take whatever the counter is brewing that day rather than defaulting to a milk drink, since the brewing is the part the shop wants you to taste. If a bean has just come off the roaster, that is the cup to have, and the counter will usually say so.

An industrial room in Çankaya

The café describes its own setting as an endüstriyel atmosfer, and that reads accurately: contemporary, hard-edged, in line with the way modern specialty rooms tend to look. It sits in Güzeltepe, in the Çankaya district, which makes it a neighbourhood counter and a destination in equal measure, depending on how far you have come for the coffee.

The room is not the reason to come, but it does shape the visit. This is a place to drink a considered cup rather than to spread out for an afternoon of work, and the layout keeps the counter at the centre of attention, which is usually a good sign in a coffee bar.

Something homemade beside the cup

Food is intentionally small. The kitchen side runs to ev yapımı tatlar, homemade sweets, meant as an accompaniment to the coffee rather than as a menu with ambitions of its own. There are no breakfast plates or sandwich lists to work through, so the sensible approach is to order coffee and take whatever sweet thing is on the counter that day.

Yiti Kahve was named in the 2025 European Coffee Trip Awards, which is the clearest external marker of where it sits among Ankara's specialty counters. Read it as a coffee-first stop: fresh-roasted beans, deliberate brewing, a small homemade sweet, and a room that makes no attempt to be anything other than a coffee bar.