Sumela
This 'Hidden Garden', around two thirds of the way to Sumela from Trabzon, serves some of the best Black Sea dishes in the region. Ideally order a mixture…
Must-see restaurants in Black Sea Coast
Black Sea Coast
This lovingly restored Ottoman house is like a joyously jumbled museum, displaying such an endless selection of ancient copperware, swords, old rugs etc…
Black Sea Coast
Above the co-owned family fishmonger, the 'Ocean Fish House' is quite possibly the best fish restaurant on the Black Sea coast (for flavour not for decor)…
Black Sea Coast
With half a car chassis over the door, this spacious, contemporary bistro overlooks the Hopa waterfront and has a wide-ranging iPad menu of cafe food…
Trabzon
Enthusiastic locals don't believe you've really been to Trabzon till you've eaten Akçaabat köfte (local meat patties) on Cemilusta's jam-packed meydan…
Black Sea Coast
This delightful log-cabin restaurant cooks its truly local spread of mountain specialities to order, including kaydebak (using seven types of local greens…
Black Sea Coast
Derin finds the sweet spot between casual bustle and brasserie-style comfort, with wooden-panelled columns and leaded windows giving semi-classical twists…
Trabzon
Take the stairway down beside the Aya Sofya garden gate to find this casually fashion-conscious cafe, popular with a young-professional crowd. It has…
Black Sea Coast
Olive is Ordu's top waterside spot, whether you're sipping a macchiato, snacking on fast food or drooling over a New York-style dry-aged steak. The…
Trabzon
This special restaurant serves French-inspired lunches (beef Bourguignon, cassoulet, ratatouille), adding Italian and Ottoman recipes after 6pm. The…
İnebolu
This unpretentious but highly recommended place fries up the day's catch from the family fishmonger's shop right across the lane. Meals are garnished with…
Black Sea Coast
In a restored (well, rebuilt) traditionally styled house among several older buildings, Çınarbey is a favourite for barbecues and regional foods including…
Black Sea Coast
Above the lapping waves, dine on the catch of the day – typically small Black Sea fish like mezgit, lightly fried in corn 'breadcrumbs'. There's no…
Black Sea Coast
Pumping high-decebel music downstairs, but contrastingly sedate up top, Culina is the in spot for Giresun's upwardly mobile 20-somethings. Sip an espresso…
Black Sea Coast
If you are staying in Perşembe, just cross the footbridge from the town's hotel to find this unexpectedly professional restaurant. It's tucked behind a…
Black Sea Coast
This excellent yet inexpensive place for fresh seafood, including karides güvec (prawn stew) and fish sandwiches, is a gleaming white contrast to the old…
Black Sea Coast
Amid roses and yew hedges at the top of the cable car, this spacious, all-window cafe overlooks the Amisos tumuli and a wide, partially tree-obscured…
Black Sea Coast
Stylishly youthful, this bayfront restaurant and 'gourmet cafe' has a casually upmarket lilt, serving a wide range of Turkish fare alongside Mexican steak…
Trabzon
Occupying one of the meydan's biggest and most attractive stone buildings, this relaxed international restaurant offers much more than just the chain's…
Trabzon
Spilling out into an ivy-walled 'secret' garden, this relaxed cafe-restaurant adjoins the merchandising shop and museum of Trabzonspor, the idolised local…
Black Sea Coast
Unwind inexpensively at the waterside nibbling a freshly grilled fish sandwich (₺10) or various other snacks on this open-sided cafe, raised just above…
Black Sea Coast
This place is hard to beat for really genuine Sinop-style home cooking (manti, dolmas, local breakfasts), though the hushed, whitewashed interior fails to…
Black Sea Coast
The open-fronted fishmonger downstairs is a good indication of the fresh fare you'll eat at this 1st-floor seafood restaurant. Just point to what you want…
Black Sea Coast
Serving quality fresh fish (canlı balık) since 1945, 'Uncle Mustafa's Place' has a distinctively characterful pebble-and-timber 'chalet' facade which…
Black Sea Coast
Easily missed as it's upstairs with no sign, this excellent ocakbaşı grill house serves assorted meaty morsels on two wooden balconies set with cushioned…
Trabzon
Good for inexpensive local snack meals like lahana dolma (pencil-thin stuffed vine leaves) or kaygana (eggy pancake), this little courtyard is an oasis of…
Black Sea Coast
In business since 1966, Huzur is big, bright and unpretentious but it delivers top-notch meat dishes, prizewinning pide and plenty more besides from a…
Trabzon
Creating a loveable old-cottage feel, this welcoming cafe-restaurant is a great place to sample a daily changing menu of wholesome and hearty local dishes…
Black Sea Coast
Unremarkable but handily located, this relaxed, archetypal neighbourhood kebapçı also serves lahmacun (Middle-Eastern pizza).
Black Sea Coast
This popular, open-sided grill house and lokanta has al fresco tables and a good range of reliable if standard Turkish fare including kebaps, soups (₺8)…
Pamuk Kardeşler Balık Restaurant
Black Sea Coast
A trinity of seafood restaurants line the sporting marina, around 500m west of the cable-car station in Batıpark. This licensed one is our favourite for…
İnebolu
Hanimeli serves fresh fish dishes, local meat stews and manti (Turkish ravioli) at simple terrace seating beside the beach, just west of town. There are…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Uzungöl
With a suave cafe below and the best lake views from its roof terrace, Migron is Uzungöl's top dining choice, as the prices reflect. The menu covers most…
Black Sea Coast
Upstairs in a large pavilion style building, right on Büyük Liman, Mavi & Yeşil offers the local fish, imported calamari and köfte dishes in a reverberant…
Black Sea Coast
Bring a dictionary and a little courage to squeeze in with the locals around the single barbecue table in this utterly old-school, hole-in-the-wall grill…
Black Sea Coast
Haydar's Place cooks crispily thin-crusted pide in a variety of styles including Karadeniz (a kind of large meat turnover) and Amasra pidesi, loaded with…
