Musicians performing at an Ankara meyhane.

A meyhane is a Turkish café or bar serving wine, raki, beer and meze. It is analogous to a Greek ouzeri. Meyhane is composed of two Persian words. "mey" and "hane", mey means wine and hane means house at the end "meyhane" means a kind of place where alcoholic beverages can be drunk. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1272x1352, 1169 KB) Summary Musicians performing in an Ankara meyhane. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1272x1352, 1169 KB) Summary Musicians performing in an Ankara meyhane. ... Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Ä°stanbul. ... Coffeehouse in Damascus A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant. ... Tourists sit outside a bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand A bar in Switzerland. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of grapes and grape juice. ... Raki is: An alternate name for Rangi, the sky father in Polynesian mythology An alcoholic beverage. ... Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of cereal sugars, and which is not distilled after fermentation. ... Goes well with ouzo/raki A Mezze (Turkish Meze Arabic: مزة; Greek Mezes, pl. ... House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Meyhanes used to serve mainly wine along meze until late 19th century when raki established itself as the quasi-official national drink. Most meyhane keepers used to be of Greek origin, they were called barba (uncle in Greek). However, they were then replaced by Muslim meyhane keepers. Nearly all of these novices were raised and trained by barbas. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rakı becomes cloudy white, when mixed with water. ...

Today, "meyhane" is mostly seen as a vulgar expression. Many establishments prefer to be called as içkili lokanta (restaurant with alcoholic beverages) or, more fashionable ones, as restoran. The word "meyhane" seems to be confined to cafés in poorer surroundings, where local men gather and drink. Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ...

The word entered Serbian language and Bulgarian language as mehana but in both of them it has today mostly fallen out of use. The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Å tokavian dialect (former standard was known as Serbo-Croatian language). ... Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Southern branch of the Slavic languages. ...

See also

• Culture of the Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman Turkish language