Bitez Restaurants

This restaurant was our favourite in Bitez and they always had something special on the menu every night. Most of the nightlife in Bitez is very low key but this place always had some kind of entertainment going on, as you will see in my nightlife tip.

Favorite Dish: The pizzas are great and the peppered steak is huge and is served with chips, carrots, and rice. Look on the specials board coz they always have that extra something special.

The red dragon was my favourite restaurant the last time we visited Bitez 17 years ago, and i wasn't really suprised to find it still exists. The food is still just as good as it was 17 years ago, the menu has changed a little though hehehehehe. You could not wish to find such a more freindly restaurant as this one, we dined here 5 times on our 2 week holiday, and by the time we had to go home we had made some great new freinds. The red dragon has a huge menu including, Chinese, Italian, Indian, Mexican, and traditional Turkish as well as a good choice of wine and beer. They also have a good kids menu and you havn't even got to worry about getting back to your hotel because they will organise a taxi for you FREE OF CHARGE so if you want, you can get pi-sed as a scunk hahahahahahaha. The manager of the restaurant is a screem, he will always say , you are my best custermers, but he will say this to everybody who eats there hehehehehehe. But at the end of our holiday, we truly was his best custermers, to which we had to sign his autopraph book. So if anyone from the Red Dragon ever reads this, i would like to thank the manager and all the staff, especially the bloke on the door who dragged us in on our first night there, and i look forward to your christmas card, many, many, thanks for making our holiday special. Oh and send over a few bottles of Doluca with the christmas card heheheherhehe

Favorite Dish: Well what can i say about the menu, exept its bloody huge. My favorite dish from the red dragon has to be the Sizzle, you can have, chicken, beef, lamb, or mixed and its served on a cast iron dish. When it comes from the kitchen, they run outside the restaurant with it because it is virtually on fire, the smoke, and the sizzling noise is amazing, after a couple of mins it comes to your table and is served with rice, this is a unique experiance so don't miss it THE SIZZLE

Number 48 is a rarity in Bitez in being the only restaurant we passed that didn't post lookouts to hassle you to come in and eat.

The menu is wide ranging, with good value lunchtime offers (which is important as prices generaly in Bitez are steep).

Quality of food was excellent. We would recommend the steaks.

The atmosphere is laid back, with gentle music that isn't blasted from big speakers like most others in the resort. The whole place had a quiet and relaxed feel about it. We were always made very welcome whenever we dropped in, even for just a quick drink.

The service was second to none. Always a glass refilled at the right time without being intrusive.

Top marks!!!!

Favorite Dish: The steaks are delicious and the beer is served very cold.

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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.

This restaurant we found was tucked out of the way from the main area of Bitez so it was not what you would call a busy restaurant, but i can't understand why, i thought the food was exelent and the service was spot on

Favorite Dish: The Sirga restaurant has quite a large menu, including
cold starters
Hot starters
Grilled meats
Seafood
Casseroles
Flambe Dishes
Pasta
And a great childrens menu as well.
Try the Octopus salad followed by the chef's special kebab

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.

You will find it hard to beat this spread anywhere in the Bodrum peninsula, fantastic selection of mezes, salads and main dishes. Its always beautifully presented and very popular with people who don't even stay at the hotel. You even get entertainment through the evening, now what could be better than that