Restaurants in Turkey
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Nimla Pastirmaci
Nimla's mouth-watering selection of cheese, pastırma (pastrami) and mezes is known throughout the city. The take-away pastırma rolls are delicious and there's also an upstairs cafeteria where you can grab a tasty light lunch.
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Meydan Restaurant
One of Bergama's oldest restaurants and a local institution, this simple but sparkling place serves good, regional food at fair prices. It also has tables outside. Try the Bergama speciality, lahmaçun (wheat cakes with minced meat).
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Meshur Kuru Fasülyeci
This popular local lokanta in the former medrese of the Süleymaniye Camii serves its famous spicy fasülyeci (broad beans) and rice to hordes of hungry locals from the theological college and nearby commercial areas.
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Kemal'ın Yeri Deniz Mahsülleri
Friendly, informal and fun, this restaurant in the Alsancak district prides itself on 'customer satisfaction', and serves good fish dishes at great prices. Try the grilled kalamar with the secret - and sumptuous - house 'mayonnaise'.
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Köy Evi
This is a fabulous family-run place with cosy seating inside or out in the courtyard. The home-cooked dishes change daily, but typically include stuffed peppers, mantı and patlıcan kebap (meat grilled with aubergine).
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Özsüt
Brand-new on the scene, this ever-popular and award-winning İzmiri chain does the usual delicious traditional Turkish puds and cakes and ice cream. Try the delectable Özsüt'un Aynası (mirror of Özsüt).
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Paşa Kebab
This spruiced-up place has a well-priced menu complete with useful little photos of dishes. Try the Paşa Special (TL16), a gigantic (and delicious) concoction of beef, tomato and cheese. There's also pizza (TL12.50 to TL16.50).
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Şafak Kahvaltı & Yemek Salonu
Nosh on freshly prepared meat dishes, hearty casseroles and stuffed vegetables in this brisk Diyarbakır institution. It's a good place to partake in a restorative morning breakfast with still-warm flatbread, luscious kaymak (clotted cream) and gooey honey. It also does superb crisp wood-fired pide and is open around the clock if you arrive on a late bus.
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Fevzi Hoca Balık-Köfte
There are no menus in this chain fish restaurant. Just choose a büyük (big) or küçük (small) beastie and it comes in a meal deal with salad, pickles and dessert. The hushed ambience makes it resemble somewhere you'd go with your parents for a birthday dinner. Köfte meals are also available, but the dry baklava isn't recommended. It's on the 1st floor of a shopping arcade.
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Wok
Achingly fashionable, this mixed Oriental bar-restaurant above a BMW showroom supplements its pan-Asian menu with sophisticated European dishes and electronic music. For added entertainment, certain tables get a view of the kitchen action.
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Ottoman Restaurant
Host Rasim and the terrace high above Side's main (and always busy) drag are the main reasons for dining at this excellent restaurant off Liman Caddesi, which serves a lot of fish. Indian and Mexican flavours also make an appearance.
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Bizim Ev
The cave wine cellar could easily tempt you into a few lost hours of tasting tipples but if you can make it upstairs the terrace is the place for atmospheric dining. Service is sleekly unobtrusive and the menu ranges from steaks to kebaps to casseroles.
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Liman Restaurant
Inconspicuously set in the bazaar, this old favourite run by the gracious Ömer Yüce serves excellent mezes and fish dishes, such as grilled sea bass (TL22), fish soup and calamari. Landlubbers will enjoy the kavurma (stir-fried lamb). Just check prices in advance to keep the bill under control.
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Konya Cadde Restaurant
Beside the İnce Minare, this restaurant is a low-lit, 1st-floor place which will do for a night out as well as a meal. On a good night the place is packed with an unconservative slice of the populace seeking beer and live music.
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Kortan Restaurant
Worth a visit just to see the interior of this lovely, 350-year-old former tavern, it also boasts five tables on a pretty terrace (phone to reserve one). The speciality is grilled fish. Try the delectable barbun (red mullet).
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Kazim Usta Restaurant
Opposite the tourist office by the water, Kazim Usta opened in 1950 and since then has become known as Kuşadası's top fish restaurant. Salad, and fish soup or calamari for an appetiser, followed by sea bream and a drink, will run about TL55 per person. Waterfront tables require advance booking in summer.
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Bay Nihat
In a very attractive 150-year-old Greek house, this restaurant is considered Alibey's best for fish and has well-positioned seafront tables. It has a huge range of excellent mezes (its fish mezes have won several pan-Turkey awards).
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Pinarbaşı Konağı
With its good food and traditional surrounds, this eatery has bags of character. It occupies a wonderful old Urfa house where you dine on floor cushions in a series of rooms set around a courtyard. There's live music in the evening.
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Köşk
Specialising in fish, the Köşk cultivates a slightly staid air to please the decorum-minded older diners that form its core demographic, though at €1.40 the beer's cheap enough to enthuse the younger crowd as well.
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Akça Konak
This is a neat restored house near the Hotel Balıkçılar with tables inside and outside, live music and post-prandial nargilehs (water pipes). The menu is pretty standard but does feature a few regional specialities.
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Brasserie Pera
The Pera brings full European bar-bistro style to Trabzon, from the pop art and plasma screens to the eccentric music policy. The menu takes in burgers, salads, pasta, chicken, plenty of lighter grills and a good range of beverages.
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Ümit Döner
If you're pining for a yummy İskender kebap, Ümit's signature dish, this is the place to go. Portions are copious, the meat is perfectly slivered and the salads are fresh. Sandwiches and rice are also available.
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Hıdiv Kasrı Café
Choose from the simple menu at the charming garden cafe or from the more extensive choice in the grand dining room and adjoining marble terrace. The food is average but the surroundings are drop-dead gorgeous. No alcohol is served.
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Köfteci Arnavut
Unsigned and unassuming, this famous köftecisi first opened in 1947 and is a safe spot to scoff köfte (meatballs) served with piyaz (white beans). It's to the left of the ferry stop on the opposite side of the main road.
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Sade Kahve
Cheap and cheerful it may well be, but this terrace cafe near the fortress of Europe is also a favourite weekend brunch spot for power-brokers, celebrities and their entourages. It serves soup and an array of sandwiches at lunch.
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