Turkish cafe to open out of Midtown salon

Brazilian blowouts and baklava?

Come next year, you can expect to get both at Enchante A European Salon as it reworks its salon space to include a Turkish cafe.

Turkish Cafe Co. is slated to open out of the Midtown salon, 2631 S. College Ave., in a few months, owner Murat Tercan told the Coloradoan on Tuesday.

It's a move to both diversify the salon business, which Tercan said has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic, and bring the Turkish desserts and dishes he grew up with to Fort Collins.

Where will Turkish Cafe Co. be?

Tercan said he will reconfigure the salon, pushing its styling booths and main entrance to the back of its Midtown building. He then plans to turn its existing lobby into a kitchen and its roughly 1,800-square-foot salon floor into the cafe.

Eventually, Tercan said he hopes to also turn the building's upstairs loft into a large seating space.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Tercan said Enchante's stylists make their own schedules, leaving its sprawling salon largely unused on early weekday mornings.

The cafe will help make better use of the space, while bringing something new to Midtown and returning the building to its former restaurant use — before Enchante took over the building in 2012, it was home to the Times Square Dueling Piano Bar.

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What will Turkish Cafe Co. serve?

The forthcoming cafe will serve Turkish coffees and teas and espresso drinks, according to Tercan.

It will also have a variety of Turkish and European desserts, from traditional Turkish baklava and bagels, or simit, to savory Turkish stuffed flatbreads, dumplings, pizzas and kebab wraps.

Turkish Cafe Co. will likely be open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tercan said.

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