Yücetepe Kır Gazinosu
Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers, service
- Address
- Monastery of St George Büyükada
- Price
- mains TL8-9
- Hours
- Apr-Oct, Sat & Sun only Nov-Mar
Lonely Planet review for Yücetepe Kır Gazinosu
At the very top of the hill where the Monastery of St George is located, this simple place has benches and chairs on a terrace overlooking the sea and İstanbul. Dishes are simple but delicious – the köfte is particularly tasty. You can also enjoy a beer here.
Traveller reviews for Yücetepe Kır Gazinosu (1)
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rewarding simple tasty food on a hill top
etipuf recommends this,
What would you do for food?
Simple, tasty food. Nothing sophisticated. Oh and, wine.
Yucetepe is all about how you get there, a journey of a day trip.
On clear summer nights you can have the sun set on one side and watch the full moon rise immediately afterwards. Yet, the enchanting summer sunsets is not all you get for visiting.
To the "kir gazinosu"(wilderness casino) one has to take the ferry and maybe have the ferry breakfast of tea and simit( bakery with sesame).
No cars (except the police) are allowed in the islands, the only means of transport are bikes and nostalgic horse cart(fayton) rides. Walk or take the smelly horse cart among vacation houses, mostl white, by the most renowned architects of their times. After a point the only way is to walk a slope to the church isolated on a hilltop among forests , which can be tiring for the unfit. This way is marked with paths of string, and strips of cloth tied to trees, for wishes.
Well, it is already afternoon, and all you ate today is the simit on the ferry. No food places on the way eh? This is probably why the food in Yucetepe always feels out of this world!
The 200+ m altitude gain on foot, and all that fresh air brings out your most basic desire to eat more and more!
The only restaurant on your destination supplies such pleasing
authentic Turkish dishes, not fancy, but very tasty. the side dishes are home cooking-like and the main dishes of plain meat is all you could ever want after hungry hours. They serve the beloved Turkish sucuk(recommended), kofte, chicken and lamb, just grilled on a shish. Several side dishes available, especially from Aegean cuisine. The piyaz is a salad type, going well with the meat. And try some yaprak sarma.
feels like a great place for raki, true, but the real treat is the unlabeled wine, uniquely of this specific restaurant. It is easy to drink, gets you drunk bad. And on your way back you can walk down with a tipsy lady cheerfully singing Greek songs.Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers, service
