Zigana Pide

Zigana Pide has served the Macunköy quarter of Ankara's Yenimahalle district since 2010, built entirely around Black Sea regional cooking. The business describes itself as bringing 'the flavours of the Black Sea together with regional richness,' and by its own account holds a 'Pide Restaurant of the Year' title. Its menu runs across four sections: cheese, minced-meat and kavurma pides; lentil and black cabbage soups as starters; a set of Black Sea specialities — Akçaabat-style köfte, Trabzon döner, kuymak (a corn-and-cheese dish), pickled cabbage sauté, and dried beans; and desserts such as laz böreği, Trabzon burma, and rice pudding. Nothing on the menu is alcoholic, and no pork product appears in any section. As one of only a handful of Ankara addresses built specifically around Black Sea cooking, it stands out for pairing pide with kuymak and köfte under one roof rather than specialising in just one of them.