Antalya Restaurants

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At the bus stop, was a cafe where we had thin cheese filled pancakes, freshlymade, and a plate of grapes. It was one of the nicest snacks I've ever tasted, We re-ordered several times while waiting for the mini bus to take us down to Olimpus.
The dough mixture is cooked over an upturned cast-iron wok -like vessel, under which is fire.

Favorite Dish: the 'pancakes'

Not too many tourist go to this place, even though it's located in the old town. It's a small bar on the second floor, which offers great life performances. You can listen to the traditional Turkish music. And you might also want to learn how to dance, as from time to time the bartender hits the dance floor. It's an amazing experience.

Sorry but we do not have the name of this restaurant, but a person pointed it out to us as a "workers" place, where only workers went to eat. Just our kind of place. It was not fancy as you can see, but after we managed to communicate (by hands and sounds only as we know no Turkish and they did not know English) by going into the kitchen and we had half the workers there trying to help, we managed to get our meal.

Favorite Dish: The lamb dishes had to be the best, no matter what they were. We had kabob, shishlick, fresh salads, fresh bread, and to top it all off the portions were generous. Also there was always service on the spot, as you can see in the pic they were always there at your elbow if you wanted something, but were not pushy or intrusive.....

Very good located in a quiet courtyard

They saw we were too hot and brought a fan

We had some clayplates mixed (? 2,50), salads (aubergine, greec...? 1,00) and brochettes (? 2)
Beer (birra) was ? 1

We all had free tea afterwards
Bill: 29,5 TL (? 17), a bit too much

Turkish Kebap is famous all around the world.. and when you are in Antalya, besides all those touristic restaurants, I can advice one real good restaurant, where you can have delicious Turkish food and nice kebaps.

When you are in the restaurant, just care attention that you should be really hungry.. cause all those delicious starters will make you think that, thats all you can eat, however you should spare some space for the main course Kebaps..

Favorite Dish: My Favourite dishes are "Adana Kebap" and "Ali Nazik".. You can also try kebap with aubergine and Kebap with nuts...

If you go to Antalya you MUST make a visit to Coco (pronounced jojo, mening “friend”) Bar at Lara Brach!! We have never tasted as good Lamb shish kebabs anywhere else in Turkey! For 4 Euro you will get a big portion with rice, chips and vegetables and several big bits of superbly marinated fresh lamb...yummi!! Among the small dishes we can mention a real tasty aubergine sallad with lots of garlic for 1 Euro, and a wonderful cheese-mushrom omelett for 2 Euro.
If you just want to have an Efes (1 Euro) or some other drink (Raki 2 Euro) that´ll also be fine, and you will get a big bowl of splendid roasted peanuts for free to go with the drink.
The owner is extremely friendly, and you will feel really wellcome and taken care of, and from the cosy terrace you can watch the Turkish every day life passing by down on the street, or even see the local football team play a game late at night!
Say hello to Metin (one of the two owners) from us!

COCO CAFE BAR
Örnekköy Carsi Ici No:9
Tel: (0.242) 349 20 63
Open: 13-04 every day!

Favorite Dish: Shish Kebap

The street (I don´t remember it´s name but I´m sure every local knows about it) is full of kebab spots, JUST PICK ONE!

Favorite Dish: Excellent sauce on the side and the meat is tasty. In our short visit to Antalya, we went twice to this street.
But kebab is not all Antalya offers.

In Antalya you can find many touristy Restaurants.. However I prefer the ones where locals choose.. Kismet Balikcisi is my favourite Fish restaurant in Antalya.. Everytime I visit Antalya, I wont pass without eating there..

The fishes are fresh and really delicious, The starters are very tasty... .. And most important, you are having one of your tastiest fishess for a funny price.. (Half price compared with Fish restaurants in Istanbul)

The restaurant is located at the old "east bus Station" ( Eski Dogu Garaji)... You can reach there by 10 min. walking from the city center.. A place where local buses were leaving, now turned out to be a local market.. Inside the market there are also fish sellers and down the road, you will find the Fish restaurants.. There are around 6-7 Fish restaurants.. All are crowded at nights, and you can all see locals eating there.. So no hussle for tourists.. Instead of being ripped off in a touristy Fish restaurant inside the Kaleici, I suggest you to choose the ones outside Kaleici (Inside the castle)

Favorite Dish: Seasonal fishes will be your favourite.. You choose what you want from a variety of fishes and they weight it first and cook afterwards.. And you pay according to the weight of your choosen fish..

Calamary, cooked shrimps are also a favourite..

If you are not filled up with fish try the deserts also..:)