ANT Bookstore and Cafe

One of the best places to relax and read a nice book

Great books particularly on Sufism and Islam. A must visit if you're in the area. There also have an in house cafe with delicious Turkish pastries and coffee !

Fresh and quality pasteries and desserts. They also have a playground for kids. Nice bookstore

This book store is very nice and cozy. Lots of space to relax, read a book or just surf the web. They have free WiFi witch is good. And the food is great! Highly recommended

Went to look for two books with my girlfriend and we are obviously not identifiable being from Turkish or Middle Eastern descent (Yes this has to do with the one star rating). We wait at the front desk to be assisted with asking about the books. We see a man sitting at the front desk talking through the phone. We continued to wait. He didnt even tell us to wait one second. He just kept going with the conversation until he was done. Then finally we found out that the books are not in the store and that had to order them. Fine, my girlfriend ordered them. We went off.

A couple days later, we went to pick up the first book. We saw a man talking on his cell phone between book shelves and looking at us. We thought he was just another customer. Later on, we saw two women (they wore hijabs so they were obviously Muslim) came to the front desk to be assisted. The man that was leaning over quickly came to their assistance. We were amazed that he didn't assist us but quickly went to them. We don't know if it was because of our ethnicity or what we were wearing or whatever reason. Then when the ladies went away and WE had to ask for him to help because he decided to ignore us and go to a call instead of helping the people who already we're waiting. He then tries to sneak us paying for the second book that didn't even come in yet. We only pay for the first one and we are told the other will come in a couple of more days. 3 weeks later to today which is the day I'm writing a review, the book still hasn't arrived or they didn't even bother to call.

To sum it all up, this place discriminating because we weren't Arabic. They had poor customer service. They also tried to get money for something that probably wasn't ever ordered. Would not recommend this place unless you don't care about bad customer service or you are from the Middle East or Turkey, which they obviously prefer.