Restaurants in Göreme
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SOS & Sultan Restaurant & Café
A cheapish option that offers belly fuel rather than gourmet meals.
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A'laturca
Style meets substance at this elegant eatery. The menu here has been thoughtfully and creatively designed and the food is exceptionally well prepared. We enjoyed the classic meze selection and were very impressed by the succulent A'laturca-style lamb şiş kebap served on a perfectly cooked ratatouille. Other visits have introduced us to the delights of the chicken şiş kebap and the wickedly rich Kayseri mantısı (ravioli with garlic yoghurt and spices).
The restaurant has a number of eating areas, the most popular of which are the upstairs terrace and the quirky downstairs garden with its brightly coloured beanbag seating. Highly recommended.
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Orient Restaurant
One of Göreme's best eating options, the Orient has an attractive terrace and a stylish dining room, both are extremely comfortable and provide the perfect setting in which to sample outstanding meat dishes. Try the marble steak, which is theatrically served on a sizzling marble slab and is wonderfully tender, or the perfectly cooked rack of lamb. Though vegetarians won't find much joy on the mains menu, they'll be happy with the plethora of vegetarian meze on offer.
Those on a budget may want to sample the fixed menu, which offers four courses for a bargain basement.
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Nazar Börek
If you're after a cheap and filling meal, you could do a lot worse than sample the börek, gözleme and sosyete böregi (stuffed spiral pastries served with yogurt and tomato sauce) served at this simple place. Friendly staff and a pleasant outdoor eating area on the dry canal mean that this is a perennially popular option. There's often a tasty special of the day (chicken curry, Persian rice and a large salad, for exxample), but no alcohol is served.
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Göreme Restaurant
The live Turkish music played here every night tends to lure diners off the comfortable floor cushions and onto the impromptu dance floor around the low brass tables. The food is nothing special, but it's well priced and the menu includes 'world kitchen' items such as green curry chicken, stir-fried noodles with vegetables and falafel sandwiches. Beer and rakı (aniseed brandy) flow freely and service is good.
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Fırın Express
Set slightly back from the main strip, this simple place makes the most of its large wood oven. The pides are very good, and the claypot dishes such as tavuk güvec (chicken stew) are extremely well priced. There's no alcohol, but customers are usually offered a complimentary tea at the end of their meal.
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Mercan
Geared towards the bus-tour trade, Mercan doesn't have the best food in Göreme by a long shot, but still has a pleasant terrace where you can sit and eat while gazing over the town.
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Cappadocia Patisserie
Close to the otogar, this place brings in cakes, pastries, baklava and ice-cream from Nevşehir and serves them with cappuccino or fresh orange juice.
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Local Restaurant
At the start of the road to the Open-Air Museum, the Local has recently been renovated and now comes close to rivalling A'laturca and the Orient for the tag of Göreme's best eatery. There's an elegant dining room as well as an outdoor terrace with comfortable cane furniture. Vegetarians will be particularly enamoured of the menu here - it features delectable Turkish dishes such as zucchini with garlic yoghurt as well as Asian favourites such as stir-fried vegetables.
All ingredients are fresh, prices are extremely reasonable and service is attentive.
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Cappadocia Kebap Centre
This tiny and very friendly joint is a great place for a cheap and fast meal. You can enjoy a chicken döner kebap sandwich or a spicy acılı kebap sandwich. A plate of chips and a cold beer or freshly squeezed orange juice are the perfect accompaniments. There are four outdoor tables under the veranda and a few more inside. Recommended.
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Cappadocia Pide Salonu
Ask any local where the best pide in town is served and they will inevitably nominate this cavernous place near the tea shop (well, they will unless a family member owns or runs one of the town's other eateries). You can also get a cold beer here.
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Silk Road Restaurant & Kebap House
This ramshackle place on the main strip is known for its cheap meals and laid-back atmosphere. You can enjoy a set meal of kebap, chips and beer, or grab a chicken kebap sandwich to go.
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Dibek
This restaurant in a lovingly restored village house is the only place in Göreme where travellers can sample true home-style village cooking. For instance, although most of the eateries opposite the otogar offer testi kebap (meat and vegetables cooked in a sealed terracotta pot, which is broken at the table to serve), this is the only place where you must give the requisite five hours' notice before eating, so that the dish can be authentically slow-cooked in a deep oven.
If you can't do this, don't fear - there are other village specialties on the menu, including kurufasulye (white beans with sundried lamb and tomato sauce) and saç tava (cubed lamb with tomatoes, peppe…
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