What is Turkish Food-When we first came to Turkey around 1990, we visited Datca.At that time, some of the restaurants invited you into the kitchen to select your food from lidded pans. In our first experience, we chose from 4 pins bubbling away on the stove.Rice-greenbeans-neck end of lamb ,and a wheat and fruit concoction.It was absolutely delicious.Never been able to replicate in the UK. We also tried our first meze mix.Many more followed after that.Kofte and Meneman and waiters soup became stapels.
Most of these appear to be available in fetihye/calis, but you do have to hunt for some.But it is also nice to have the odd bit of English as well. The odd roast beef or kebab goes down well.