Food & Drink;
You will find a huge range of foods around this area of Turkey, you can of course find typical English foods, steak and chips pizza’s etc, but it is definitely worth trying out the local cuisine. Try a real Turkish kebab, (don’t expect what you would find in local chippy to appear before you, they are so different, you’ll never look at your donner kebab in the same away again. Also try the lamb and the liver, in the UK I hated liver, but here it is so different, it’s soft and moist and just melts in the mouth
You will also find hundreds of appetizers (meze’s) available in the restaurants, both hot and cold with wonderful tomato and aubergine dishes to stuffed mushrooms and sigara borek (filo pastry filled with cheese), you can also find me and potato varieties of these.
Also the range of Turkish breads and pide’s is great as well. Pide is a Turkish pizza which is long and filled in the middle normally with mince, cheese, salami or mixed, and in the local bakers you can find so many different types of bread, simit rings, (hard bread covered in seeds, breads stuffed with cheese, sliced, circle, and loaves they have it all, and it all tastes different)
As for drinks there try the local spirit called Raki which is taken with ice and water, If that’s a bit too strong for your tastes then enjoy a nice chilled Efes Beer (anywhere between 1.60GBP and 2.50GBP depending on where you are), and of course there are plenty of white, rose and red wines available (average around 15GBP a bottle)
