Marmaris
One of the more creative eateries on the waterfront, offering filling grills and grilled fish. The lunch menu features lighter meals, including steak…
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Central Anatolia
The welcoming Madame Sema serves home-cooked food such as içli köfte (meatballs stuffed with spices and nuts) in this small restaurant tucked down a…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
A fine hotel cafe-restaurant with lovely terrace for al fresco dining. The chef is Italian, so this is the perfect spot for a bowl of pasta (or espresso);…
Kuşadası
Great pide (Turkish-style pizza), lahmacun (Arabic-style pizza, ₺6) and kebaps at this eatery; try a beytı kebab (₺28) with minced lamb and chargrilled…
Turquoise Coast
This waterside pension cafe has been making its own peach, banana and hazelnut ice cream for 25 years. Sea bass and calamari are also on the menu and the…
Dalyan
This cheap and cheerful pide (Turkish-style pizza) place is often packed with happy local customers. There are also kebaps and lokanta (ready-made) dishes…
Kuşadası
Marina restaurant that's the perfect spot for a memorable meal, with vistas over the sea over to Kuşadası castle. Good for Turkish or Western breakfasts,…
Gaziantep
This small place is known for both its classic kebap plates and its syrup-soaked and pistachio-loaded baklava. It's a bit out of the centre, across the…
Bodrum Peninsula
This popular fish restaurant follows the peninsula custom of dining right on the sand, with a delicious range of home-cooked mezes and fish dishes to…
Kuşadası
Next to the little park and city tea garden, this is one of Kuşadası's more popular waterfront fish eateries, with great sunset sea views and good quality…
Eastern Mediterranean
Just off central Cumhuriyet Meydanı, this large, open spot has grills and mezes at better prices than the beachfront restaurants. The staff are friendly…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
This hotel restaurant, 500m or so south of the marina, has a lovely waterside deck for languid seafood lunches and dinners. You'll find good grilled meats…
Black Sea Coast
Saray is widely reckoned the top choice of a trio of fish restaurants that all have seating that stretches onto platforms over the waters of the harbour…
South Aegean
Enjoy fresh fish and views of the Iasos ruins (turning your back to the blight that is the Güllük holiday village to the south) at this friendly…
Bodrum Town
This inexpensive open-fronted kebapçı (kebap shop) near the entrance to the fish market serves meat feasts, including tasty İskender and fiery Adana…
Turquoise Coast
Hassan Deniz is much favoured by yachties and their crews for its fresh fish and great mezes. Its long pier has a single table for scenic dining on calm…
Bodrum Peninsula
With cheery orange and blue tables strung along the sand and looking to the ebbing waves, this friendly place is Torba's spot for a meal of mezes and…
İzmir & the North Aegean
This is the best place to sample the town's speciality of Manisa kebap (cylindrical köfte served on pide and topped with tomato sauce and yoghurt).
Eastern Mediterranean
There's a row of restaurants in the fish market between Silifke Caddesi and Atatürk Caddesi in the centre of town. Erden is thought to be the best of them.
Turquoise Coast
On the far west side of the harbour, this large waterside restaurant has ample seating, moderate prices (a köfte is ₺35) and service is quite snappy.
Antalya
This gorgeous garden cafe south of Hadrian's Gate is rammed all summer long with Antalya's bright young things. Great for coffee, snacks and flirting.
Black Sea Coast
Sofra serves reliably good pide and kebaps but the main attraction is the historic stone building with its bare stone walls and heavy cast-iron lamps.
Turquoise Coast
On pedestrianised Müze Caddesi, 'Silk' Restaurant is great for a quick lunch of pide, lahmacun (Arabic-style pizza), kebap or grill.
Bodrum Peninsula
This seafood restaurant is as popular for its waterfront location with its incomparable views westward as its fresh fish dishes and mezes.
Turquoise Coast
Everywhere sells ice cream in Kaleköy, but locals swear this is the best. There's a lovely terrace to enjoy it on, with bay views.
Bodrum Town
Offers the best ice cream in town, with authentic flavours including walnut and coconut. Also serves good espresso coffee.
Eastern Mediterranean
This family-run pastry shop in the heart of Silifke is a great place to stock up on baklava, biscuits and other treats.
Eastern Mediterranean
On the main square in İskele just up from the pier, the family-run Olta is the fish restaurant of choice in Anamur.
Thrace & Marmara
For a sundowner with million-dollar views over the water, head to the terrace restaurant at the Yakamoz Motel.
Şanlıurfa
Death by pistachio baklava and pistachio sarması ('vine leaves').
Beyoğlu
Students, expats and İstanbullus with a literary bent are regular fixtures at this cafe on the 1st floor of the Turkish-German Bookshop on İstiklal…
Bodrum Town
Bodrum's fish market (sometimes called manavlar for the fruit stands at the entrance to this small network of back alleys) offers a direct dining…
Black Sea Coast
This small rustic holiday centre is the best dining and sleeping spot between Yusufeli and Barhal, with a riverside cafe, restaurant and a pair of dining…
Sultanahmet
Making locals happy since 1864, this şekerlemeleri (sweets shop) sells lokum (Turkish Delight), milk puddings and spinach or cheese börek (filled pastry)…
Mardin
Turkish tourists are big fans of eating amid the refinery of this restored caravanserai. The menu has plenty of meaty options from aubergine kebap to saç…
Princes’ Islands
Overlooking Büyükada's longest beach, Teras is a popular spot for breakfast, lunch and dinner (if coming for dinner arrive before sunset to take advantage…
Ürgüp
Long-time local favourite, right on the main square, this lokanta (eatery serving ready-made food) does four or five dishes daily. Stuffed courgettes,…
Black Sea Coast
This building, shaped like a boat that's been washed onto the beach, hosts a mini fish market downstairs and a seafood restaurant above. It's not the most…
Cappadocia
This friendly, super-clean lokanta (eatery serving ready-made food) dishes up solid versions of Turkish classics such as patlıcan kebap (cubed or minced…
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