Restaurants in Mediterranean Coast
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Sultan Garden Restaurant
This very leafy place, with a terrace overlooking the harbour and a functioning ancient cistern, is a perennial favourite offering excellent service and traditional and inventive Turkish dishes. Try the hünkar beğendı (spiced stewed lamb on aubergine puree; TL22).
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Natur-el
With its dishes cooked to traditional recipes passed down from generation to generation, Natur-el and the family who runs it provide a chance to sample Turkish cuisine at its best. If you haven't yet eaten mantı, then choose from the three varieties (TL12) here. They also served aşure, an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink pudding of dried fruit, nuts and beans.
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Restaurant 36
Popular with the backpacker crowd, in part because of its location near to the cheaper pensions, yet also because of its distinctively laid-back vibe. The somewhat international menu offers items like tuna fish salads and omelettes along with the usual mix of mezes, kebaps and grills. Because the indoor dining area appears to also be the living room of the owner's home, front patio noshing is recommended.
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Ney Restaurant
Tucked away off the street up some steps is this tiny but delightful restaurant set in a 250-year-old Greek house. Decorated with seashells and wind chimes, it's run by the charming Birgül, owner and cook, who offers delicious home cooking at pleasing prices. Try the mantı böreğı (Turkish ravioli).
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Yakamoz Restaurant
A pleasant 1km walk from town along the promenade, this is a great place to head for a sunset drink and dinner. It's a traditional Turkish menu and the fish can be pricey, but there's plenty of atmosphere and an attractive outdoor area with big cushions down by the water.
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Bi Lokma
Also known as 'Mama's Kitchen', this place has tables meandering around a terraced garden overlooking the harbour. Sabo – the 'mama' in question – turns out great traditional dishes including her famous mantı (TL9.50) and börek (filled pastry; TL10.50).
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Café Oley
Run by the dynamic Atilla, the Oley offers the best breakfast in town serving everything from bacon and Cornflakes to Vegemite and pancakes. It also does good salads and sandwiches. Customers have free internet access and there's a book exchange.
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Meğri Restaurant
In a beautiful old stone house decorated with traditional artefacts, this place serves a varied menu in a nice atmosphere. With Turkish, Italian and French food all on offer, it might suit bickering couples who can't agree on where to go.
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Hilmi et Balık Restaurant
Set inside the fish market building, this place does meat dishes as well as fish (its speciality) and is a firm favourite locally. You can also bring-your-own.
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Çınarlar
Perennially popular with Kaş' young bloods, who come for the affordable pide and pop music, Çinarlar has a pleasant courtyard tucked away off the street.
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Sempati
The homestyle cooking at this place behind the blue door on the corner of Slippery Street attracts a loyal and regular following. Try the delicious aubergine fritters.
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Ottoman House
Set inside a 100-year-old stone villa that once did time as a hotel, and surrounded by lush garden, the Ottoman House is the most atmospheric eatery in Alanya. The beğendili taş kebabı (TL24), a traditional Ottoman dish of sautéed lamb served on aubergine (eggplant) purée, is testament to the creativity of the kitchen staff. Likewise the grilled fish dishes (TL20 to TL22 per person), but come on Thursday or Sunday night for an all-you-can-eat fish barbecue (TL30). Live music is performed most evenings in summer.
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Paul's Place
The good word comes in coffee cups at this informal expat 'club' on the 2nd-floor of the St Paul Cultural Center. Regardless of your faith, enjoy the espresso or filter coffee and home-baked pastries on offer. There's a well-stocked lending library with 2500 books.
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Red Tower Brewery Restaurant
It's fusion confusion at this multistorey pleasure palace at the end of the hotel strip. The ground-floor brew pub serves its own decent lager, there's an international restaurant on the 1st floor, Turkish dishes on the 3rd floor, and sushi and live guitar music at the Sky Lounge on the 6th floor. You might never leave the building.
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Chez Evy Restaurant
Run by Evy, the restaurant's French namesake, and ex-head chef for a private yacht, this place is unabashedly French haute cuisine. It serves superb classics such as gigot d'agneau or filet de boeuf sauce béarnaise. If you can, opt to sit in the beautiful and verdant courtyard and listen out for Şahin the parrot, which can be heard whistling for Evy and usually makes a nightly appearance himself!
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Parlak Restaurant
Opposite the jewellery bazaar and just off the pedestrian Kazım Özlap Caddesi is this sprawling open-air patio restaurant in an old caravanserai favoured by locals and famous for its slow-roasted chicken (one-half TL8) and excellent meze.
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Gizlı Bahçe
A sort of luxury compound featuring two separate restaurants - one Turkish and one Italian - as well as a bar, this is undoubtedly one of Kaleiçi's most dramatically located dining and entertainment spots. The restaurant is almost as lovely to gaze at as the view, and the food (traditional grills, mezes and pasta) and service are equally supreme. Smart dress is encouraged, although prices are kept relatively low.
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Paşaköy Bar & Restaurant
More theme park than restaurant, the infamous Paşaköy is well worth an evening of absurdist dining. It's hidden in a lush garden with hanging lamps, a bubbling brook and caged parrots fighting for space, the decor growing weirdly familiar with every drink. The food – a mix of standard Turkish and Italian – is reliable.
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Güneyliler
With its cafeteria-style interior, this reasonably priced locals-only joint isn't much to look at. But the wood-fired lahmacun (Turkish-style pizza; TL6) and expertly grilled kebaps are served with so many complimentary extras, you'll want to return. If you get lost, ask for directions at the landmark Best Western Khan Hotel at Kazım Özlap Caddesi 55.
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Caretta Caretta
Also designed by Nail Çakırhan, this place does delicious Turkish dishes (such as bonfile ve tavuk cığerli börek - beef fillet with chicken livers baked in puff pastry) at pleasing prices. With a number of tables on the riverbank and the wooden platform above the water, you have a fair chance of bagging one. It's a great place also for a beer.
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Moonlight Restaurant
The waterfront Moonlight, in situ since 1983, offers an extensive Turkish wine list and professional but unfussy service. The mostly seafood offerings are well presented and very fresh. The biggest drawcard, however, is the romantic back terrace, which is regularly filled with happy couples.
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Riverside Restaurant
Considered Dalyan's best fish restaurant, the Riverside also boasts a gorgeous and breezy terrace where you can dine under mulberry trees while admiring the Lycian tombs and listening to the quack of ducks. The owner, an ex-head chef who still does his own cooking, offers exquisite seafood and fish accompanied by his own special sauces. The stuffed fish is a speciality.
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7 Mehmet Restaurant
Antalya's most famous eatery is a couple of kilometres west of the centre, and its spacious indoor and outdoor dining areas occupy a hill overlooking Konyaaltı Plajı and the city. The menu of grilled mains, fish and meze is unsurprising but reliable; ask for a peek in the enormous kitchen.
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Merkez Cafe
This modest-looking and very central (the meaning of its name) cafe makes ethereal pastries and cakes, including a gorgeous chocolate baklava (TL6) and coconut and almond macaroons. More substantial fare includes pizzas (TL9 to TL15) and pasta.
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Beyaz Yunus Lokantası
Set on a stunning terrace overlooking the bay, the Beyaz is famous for its fresh fish and seafood. Sample some of the exquisite seafood mezes such as calamari stuffed with feta, or octopus slow-cooked in red wine. Down some steps is a delightful 'Sunset Bar'- perfect for a pre-dinner aperitif! It's on the Faralya road about 1km from the town centre.
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