Selcuk Restaurants

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This local Sirince restaurant offers good quality for a modest price in a friendly environment. Nothing fancy here. Relatively deserted on a chilly October evening, there were two tables occupied, one by an English couple and the other by local trade.
A display near the kitchen offers a selection of small plates with mostly vegetables of which we sampled a few, tasty and perhaps a bit oily. For entrees, we went with kebabs and found ourselves with huge plates of adequate relatively bland meat and chicken kebabs with an assortment of vegetables. A typical fresh salad with great tomatoes (as usual) was included. Beer (Efes) is available. Portion sizes are large and we ended up with a lot more food than we needed.
Ege nin Sofrasi offers a good choice for reasonable priced dining, with a terrace overlooking the main street available for warm weather dining.

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Generally recognized as the superior Sirince dining experience, Artemis Restaurant occupies a 200 year old schoolhouse overlooking the village and the neighboring hills and valleys. Entrance is through a park like setting with fountain marred only by the obligatory wine store and souvenir center, one flanking on each side. In season, dining can be on a terrace or in the park in front of the building. The first floor contains several large dining areas for groups and is decorated in traditional style. The main dining room is in the basement, called the Cellar Hall, and again with traditional decor set with widely spaced tables and booths.

Nice restaurant, nice meal - service and ambience are as good as it gets in Sirince. Service was modestly professional. Beer, wine, and raki are of course available, the wines including local reds and whites as well as a wide assortment of local produced fruit wines ranging from raspberry and apricot to sour cherry, strawberry, and mulberry. The bread basket is excellent, flat bread baked with spices and olive oil, served with the appetizers. The menu is wide-ranging with soups including eggplant, salads, filled flatbreads, and entrees including casseroles and kebabs. We had salads with entrees of kebabs and meatballs ( it is easy to become very fond of the spicy Turkish meatballs - kafte ) served with vegetables.

Favorite Dish: Interestingly, on a chilly evening in October, the only other occupied table included the only American living permanently in Sirince, married to a local woman, with their family.

Before or after checking out the Turkish rugs and their manufacture, consider lunch in the restaurant behind the main building, complete with fruit trees, grass, and a gazebo.

A limited menu features grilled meats and offers a full meal comprised of a (very ) spicy yogurt soup, a terrific fresh salad with plenty of the tasty tomatoes we came to love in Turkey, and a large entree with several meat selections on skewers including beef, chicken, lamb. Also on offer - large spicy meatballs, all served with vegetables. Beer, wine, and raki are available, all at a reasonable price.

Favorite Dish: kofte - spicy meatballs are a Turkish staple, very good here.

The food in Selcuk is nothing to sneeze at, it is delicious in it's own right. But I can not stress enough how awesome the city of Sirince is. It is very quiant with narrow cobblestone roads, lots of little shops and a lot of AMAZING food and wine. Really doing yourself a diservice if you don't go!! The city is featured for it's fruit wines (cherry, plum, apricot) and so on. Although an all out drinking and dining experience may not be your cheapest meal, it will be memorable. I still have my wine bottle carrier I used to take home my bottle of Cherry Wine I bought in the area! Purely delicious! A great bottle of wine from this area is about 15$
You'll have to take a taxi there, unless your able to hike the 9km back to Selcuk without staggering into the roads after too much wine!

The restaurant uses the old greek school in the village of Sirince-7 km. from the town of Selcuk. It is the most famous restaurant in sirince.It seem expensive,but really not.The service is also fantastic.food are too delicious.It's the best restaurant in sirince.

Favorite Dish: I would advise local vegetables with olive oil.(from sirince's olive oil)
fruit wines are perfect.
pancakes and baklava are also delicious.

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Just 8kms from Selcuk is the tiny village of Sirince and in the village the restaurant Le Jardin has the most GORGEOUS food!! The service is also fantastic and the prices tooo cheap!! Can't beat it. Take a dolmus from Selcuk but be careful bcos the last one back leaves around 8.30pm and after that you are stuck!!

The square next to the train station where we used to drink tea and ayran at is full of tea houses and also there is a nice restaurant in one of the corners. We ate there as well. Needless to say, the food was extra tasty.

In Selchuk... I admit I forgot the names of the places we ate at, so I will try and give an explanation according to the location.

Right after you pass the Post office, opposite of the bank (not Ziraat, the other one.. turkish bank or something) at the corner of Namik Kemal Caddesi there is a very nice place. I loved their food,

There is a great pizza place close to the Mosque on Kizilay Caddesi.

I first did not want to include this place on virtual tourist cause on two occasions I didn’t like the attitude of the guys serving us, but I will be kind enough and get over my aggravation simply because their food was in deed very good. It is a restaurant JUST OPPOSITE of the Vardar pension, next to the big pastry shop which you won’t miss as their cakes are always on a display.