During our final week, we made our second escapade to Cuma Café. The style of our stop this time is slightly different from the previous ones. More nostalgic, more exciting :)
Cuma Café is a small time machine in Bahçelievler, 7th Street, the busiest and trendy street of Ankara. Even from the outside it has a different style than other cafés. From the motorcycle on the outside to the paintings on the chairs, they all added an interesting atmosphere to the café. We were very pleased with this cafe. So we decided to take you there with this blog post. We would like to see you with us in this café where we can find different tastes from tea to coffee and from dessert to pizza. If you're ready, let's begin our nostalgic trip :)
If you are wondering more, here's the instagram account of the café and its map:
We have another little surprise for you. We have recorded our beautiful moments from our trip for you. Enjoy the video :)
This café; from the moment we entered the café until the moment we left, with its stove's warmth, the delight of its nostalgic music and the originality of its decoration, captivated us. We literally fall in love with this café.
We say goodbye to you in this final post. I hope you will be happy with our advice and maybe we will meet again elsewhere. Until then, take care of yourself. from BusrAlara to the world, bye.
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Throughout our blog posts, we tried to find which one is better: Coffee or Tea? Now, it is time to give microphone to the world.
In our daily lives, we go out to socialize. We drink coffee, tea or eat something with our friends. While we're doing this, we also have some choices to select which countries' production we're going to consume. First we're starting with top coffee producers:
"Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world." - Thomas Jefferson
From having a good day to relaxing after hard work, coffee does not only improves your energy level but also it can help you fight with depression and make you happier. Thanks to some certain countries, all people from around the world can reach coffee whenever they want. We prepared an infographic showing top 10 coffee producers and the amount(in tonnes) they produce. Here's the quick list of first 10 coffee producer countries in the world: Brazil,Vietnam,Colombia,Indonesia,Ethiopia,Honduras,India,Uganda,Mexico,Guatemala
"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."-Fyodor Dostoevsky
A cup of tea can help you live healthier because it has lots of advantages. For example, tea contains antioxidants and it can improve your immune system as well as your bones. So, it's not surprising that tea is one of the most common beverages in the world. This is not only because of the wide range of tea people can reach but also it hosts many countries around the world. Here's the list of top 10 tea producing nations: China,India,Kenya,Sri Lanka,Vietnam,Turkey,Indonesia,Myanmar,Iran,Bangladesh Hey there café lovers! This time, we came with the suggestion of a café that will warm our hearts during this period when students were struggling with exams in this cold weather. I know... it's hard to create time to go out in these tough times but this little escape from student life will energize your mood more than you can imagine :) We were also overwhelmed with the exams. So, when we found our first free time from all the midterms and homeworks, we went to Eksi Maya in no time flat, where we always wanted to go. And the first thing that came to our mind when we first saw the café with our own four eyes was you, our dear readers. We had a very strong urge to share this beautiful café with you, even the atmosphere made us feel this way. We seem to hear the question of what makes this cafe so unique. Please make yourself home and go down a bit to see the answer :) For More Information:
https://eksimaya.com.tr/ Address: Eskişehir yolu, Bilkent Kavşağı, Maidan İş ve Yaşam Merkezi, No: 4, D:6, 06530 Çankaya Phone: (0312) 504 24 21 Hours: 8.30AM-12AM Hello coffee and tea lovers! As you may already remember, we have this small "Tea or Coffee" challenge among us, so we've started to visit 4 beautiful cafés with different styles. As cafés become more and more popular to spend some free time alone or with friends, we thought that this blog post will help you have new ideas about Ankara's must-go cafés. Both of us chose one coffee shop and one tea shop, and our café choices were made with the recommendation of our friends as well as with our own favorites. We also tried to make comment on what we tasted to give you initial thoughts about those cafés. Now, it's time to share our café choices with you. Are you ready? Alara's Choice: Koala Coffee ShopAlara: Hey there tea and coffee lovers! Here is my favourite coffee shop in town: Koala Coffee Shop! With its cosy and dim-lit atmosphere, since the very first they I’ve been there, it has my heart. Great coffees, delicious desserts, cheerful and warm baristas… What else does someone expect from a place where one can go whenever they want? Exactly for this reasons, Koala is the first place that came to my mind when I decided to take Büsra, as well as you my dear readers, for a cup of coffee and lots of chit-chats. If you are more than a tea person than a coffee person but still you like drink soft coffees like me, then this coffee shop is just for you. You should definitely try their latte with honey and cinnamon, which is my favourite, because it is so soft that the coffee just melts into your month and touch your heart. If you are also in love with sweets just like me, you should try their cookies, they make them daily and almost never the same kind. They also sell my favorite stickers, from Bulldog Stickers, and you can also spend your time trying to find the best ones that suits your taste! Busra: When I first heard the name of the café, I already knew that I was going to fall in love with it. The warmth of the environment conquered my heart. Literally! Imagine a café that fits everyone taste. This place was exactly established for this standard. Although I usually drink non-sweetened coffee, I genuinely fell in love with its hot chocolate called Willy Wonka! Imagine a cream mountain on the top of a giant cup of hot chocolate with a marshmallow. The sweetness of this beverage fits with the café's setting. Next time, I may have difficulty in choosing between coffee and Willy Wonka <3 Address: Barbaros, No:C, Bülten Sk. No:21, 06660 Çankaya/Ankara Phone Number: 0532 223 80 71 Working hours: 10AM-10PM Alara's Choice: Poe&Co.Alara: This café is my trump card to make Büsra say tea is better than coffee. It is the best tea shop in town that fits my taste and I am very excited to share it with you. So please welcome: Poe&Co.! When I first found this place, I was so touched because they serve at least 5 types of soaked teas from black teas to oolong teas. A little information here, Far East Asian countries have very different teas than our usual black tea, so in Poe&Co. there are usually Chinese and Japanese teas. My favorite white tea comes from China and it is the tea that calms down all your nerves, I promise! It really is just a small café with a huge Edgar Allan Poe painting one the wall, and the design is just beau-tea-ful. Also, it has the loveliest lady as an owner, she is both kind and sweet, and if you cannot decide which awesome tea (or coffee but teas are their specialities so, I strongly advise you to have a cup of tea) you'll try, do not hesitate to ask her and try to make her understand your tastes first. Busra: Well... I wasn't that excited when we were going to this café. However, it didn't take me long to realize that I was wrong. I'm literally in love with how broad assortment it has for teas. It took me more than 10 minutes to decide which tea I was going to drink. I ended up choosing oolong tea because its name seemed different to me. A small suggestion to you: if you are used to drinking milk beverages like me, try your tea with milk! That'll be the time when you're going to be addicted of this warm place. Busra's Choice: BARN Coffee ShopBusra: No matter what time of the day, I spend very nice time in BARN Coffee Shop. The quality of the coffee as well as the design of the coffee shop makes me feel like I'm at home. So that's why I decided to take Alara there, BARN Coffee Shop. The fact that the place has a design appealing both students and employees makes it even more popular. Besides the dark furniture choices, the well lit lightening also makes the atmosphere very stylish.With this selection of cafés, we entered a place that suits both students and employees. So, after our classes, we came here to chill and relax. (Actually, my aim was to convince Alara to make her a coffee lover more than a tea lover). Hopefully, Alara really liked the design of the café, so we took a sit and decided what to drink. I drank espresso because I was a bit tired, but I recommended Alara to my favorite: Flat White <3 I call flat white a strong latté. It contains both espresso and milk. Also, in BARN Coffee Shop, they have high quality coffee machines and the coffee cups are so beautiful that you want to take them home. These qualifications make you even more connected to the place. If you consider coming to this coffee shop, I strongly advise you to give a chance to flat white with a cookie. (They also make sugar-free cakes too but, this chocolate chip cookies will help you reach to the moon) Also, if you want to try new things, there's a matcha latté option- but be prepared for an unusual taste :) Alara the floor is yours; What do you think about my favorite place? Alara: Hey there again guys! Okay Busra okay, I admit that I really liked flat white, even though it tastes somehow strong in my opinion. BARN Coffee Shop has really awesome atmosphere and brillian chocolate cookies, and the coffee was also great, too. I am still a tea lover, but you can be sure that I will come here every now and then to have my flat white :) Address: Çayyolu, S. Saltoğlu Blv. 209/23, 06810 Çankaya/Ankara Phone Number: (0312) 217 18 99 Working hours: 9AM-10PM- Sunday opening hour 10AM Busra's Choice: Lavinnia Coffe ShopBusra: Would you like to enjoy both tea and coffee in an authentic café? Well... Lavinnia is here for you to spend enjoyable time with your friends. The way it's designed is so unique. Everything from the gramophone to the tables, from the watches to the chairs, is very different from ordinary cafés. So, I decided to take Alara to Lavinnia Coffee Shop. It has homemade pumpkin spice latté which I strongly recommend you to try. Also, they have types of teas that you may never ever heard of. We first tried two different teas which are, white tea with rose flavour and spicy tea with orange flavour. They both have strong but special tastes. As a coffee lover, I really liked the variety of tea and their tastes. I tried white tea one. It has both sweet and savory taste, so it became one of my favorite tea flavors. Also, enjoying my tea with a creative design of the café made the taste even much better. Alara: Finally, tea!! I was in love with their teas, every one of them has their own unique smell and I am a hundred percent sure they all taste awesome as well, though I only tried their orange tea. I knew now Busra has a great taste in tea as well as coffee. Why don''t you try this cafés' teas as well and share your opinions with us? Address: Ümit, 2540. Sk. No:17, 06810 Çankaya/Ankara
Phone Number: (0312) 235 65 66 Working hours: 9AM-8PM- Sunday opening hour 11AM Web site: https://www.lavinniacoffee.com/ Hello everyone!
Here we are, two best friends: Alara from Konya and Büsra from the center of Turkey, Ankara. We are both senior management students in Bilkent University and we are friends since the very first day of our classes. We spend so much time together that our characters are now similar to each other. As you can expect from a 4 year-old friendship, we have so many things in common: the same music taste, same hobbies, and a common love for trying new foods and places. We also have an undying love for the Asian cultures which was the starting point of our relationship. But no matter how much we have in common, we cannot reach a mutual idea about which is better: Tea or coffee? So, we begin our journey to find teas and coffees that we, and you, should definitely try. We are each going to start with introducing one of our favourite cafés which we really like to go, because spending time with your besties in your free times is the best thing in a student's life! Our first destination comes from Büsra: her favourite café in town: BARN Coffee Shop, continues with Alara's favourite tea shop: Poe&Co. We also got some reccommendations from our friends, so we are already passionate to try those new places as well. But here's the bad news: we are going to save those café advices to ourselves (for now) to make you feel excited. :) Anyways, join us in our journey of discovering the cafés in Ankara. We are ready to share our experiences and our opinions with you, so keep following us throughout our adventure. Have a brew-tiful and fan-tea-tastic day! |
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