Bitez Restaurants

Antonio's is a lovely little restaurant just off the beach and just around the corner from the mosque, they cook traditional dishes as well as pizzas, steaks and seafood. The staff are very helpfull and they hold evening entertainment every night. But i thought the bloke on the door was a bit pushy to get you inside the restaurant

Favorite Dish: The menu was quite large and i picked the peppered steak, which wasn't bad, but very small

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On our second evening we spent some time sussing out a restaurant away from the seafront and with a more local vibe. The Black Cat is one street back from the beach about a block beyond the Mosque. I was immediately attracted to its sign featuring two cats and its small and spotless exterior. Being allowed to read the menu with no interference from the waiter standing on the terrace, clinched it for us. As the first customers of the evening, in fact the first of the season, we were invited in to examine the food on offer and really enjoyed the descriptions of the various dishes. Eating here was very relaxing with extremely pleasant and courteous service and I would recommend it wholeheartedly.

Favorite Dish: The cheese and spinach tart we started with and the succulent lamb kebabs for main course were very good indeed.

This restaurant is further back from the beach than the Black Cat and was fairly full every night we passed. The very smoothtalking Maitre D made the claim about 'the best Turkish food in Bitez' and who am I to disagree? We shared a meal here with two fellow Corkonians, Clare and Catherine and while we all enjoyed the food, we felt that the claim of 'most expensive Turkish food in Bitez' could just as easily be applied. We all had kebabs, in this case off the skewer and in Claire and Catherine's case, on a bed of rice and yogurt. Denis and I chose the chef's special, Testi Kebab for two people, the definition of which could easily be nominated for the Booker Prize, so glittering was the prose used to describe it. In the event it was a tasty but not spectacular mixed meat and vegetable stirfry, served in a terracotta pot . For desert we all had baklava and icecream, which again somewhat fell short of the flowery phrases used to sell it to us.The wine here was twice as expensive as any other wine we'd had during the week and ditto with the water.

This restaurant is good but not as spectacular as it would have you believe. The portions are small and the drinks are expensive. They do make the effort to introduce some authentic Turkish touches to the food and presentation though and they don't have a big screen TV.

Favorite Dish: My favourite dish was the poetically described Testi Kebeab which tasted like a very delicious stirfry but was served most spectacularly in a clay pot on a bed of flames and a whole onion on top. Keeping the onion was an optional extra.

Everybody pushes this restaurant in Bitez and it's pretty hard to avoid it. On our first evening, not yet armed with the necessary skills to shake off touts, we succumbed to pressure and sat down to our first Turkish dinner. The food was quite good, the service efficient and a guitarist with the weirdest Engish accent ever, crooned in the background. In truth, there's absolutely nothing wrong with this restaurant apart from its location on the strip of beach where passers-by are subjected to a non-stop stream of verbal inducements/harrassment to occupy one of the endless rows of tables, under the big screen TVs. This is not my idea of dining ambience so for the rest of the trip we avoided this like the plague.

The Golden Spoon's serves Turkish food but you can get most foods here from burgers to Beijing Duck to Full English Breakfast.

Favorite Dish: The starter Turkish Meze Plate, served with freshly baked flatbread was a very tasty introduction to Turkish cuisine.

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This restaurant have very good food. The breakfast is superbe ans the diner is fantastic. We go there one time and and after that we come back all the time. The staff is very friendly and if you like a peppersteak flambe becarefull of your fingers. Otherwhise you will eat them. The owner is very friendly and he have a great hospitality.

Favorite Dish: The best english breakfast. It's better then home

Tried this place twice.
First time we were very happy with our lunch.
When we went back for dinner the service was not so good, and the owner (or was it the owner's wife/girlfriend) sat at the next table to smoke and have a coffee. We had to ask her to b....r off.
Not a good start to a meal...

Favorite Dish: Chicken shish

A small place set back from the beach about 50m, with just 6 tables.

We used it 3 times in 7 days - definitely a favourite.

Staff are friendly and efficient.

No written menu in the evening - you choose from what's there. Good fish and meze.

Favorite Dish: One of the meze - fried aubergine with tomato. Or was it the heydari? Mmm...

The owner is very "hands on". He explains what's on the menu and takes your orders (no written menu - you get taken into the kitchen to be shown what is on offer).

We ate there 3-4 times in 7 days, and everything we ate was super. My friend ordered wild sea bream one night (usually its farmed) and loved it. Next night she had a huge red mullet - same story!

One secret - on our last visit we saw the owner's brother (one of the waiters) emerge from the water 20m away, clad in snorkel, face mask and flippers and clutching a basket trap of fresh fish! He handed the contents to his brother, and went back in to replace the trap.

How fresh can you get!

Favorite Dish: Tough question! It was always good. Probably the köfte - sounds banal, but it was exceptional.