Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Koca Calis & Ciftlik Discussion Forum => Topic started by: TIGER on August 16, 2017, 00:17:01 AM
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Hi has anyone been to the bar this year that was always known as " Helens" bar , ?
I have been to Calis beach for the past 15 years and love that beach and resterant but every year it seems to change hands so I am not sure what it's called now , the last couple of years it seemed a lot more busier , but maybe that was just the Sansatori guests stepping out for a wonder ??
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Carretta is now the Aroma Beach Club. It is looking really good,has had a makeover,new beds,tables and chairs. Cant say about food as have never been but it is a lot busier than before. I think it will harm the places further along which is a shame because we like Guvans.
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I think there may be some confusion.The bar now called Aroma at the end of the prom was called Carretta.
This is not the bar previously called Helen,s also called Carretta,don't know if this now has a new name, this on the far side of Telmessos Hill in what I believe is referred to as either Yaniklar or Ciftlik beach,at the opposite end to the Sansatori Complex.
Its a fair walk from Calis haven't been there for a couple of years so cannot give a report.
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There is still something there on karatas beach as we call it, not sure who is running it as last time it was council run
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yes it is the one round the corner from Telmessos , I love the quietness of the place and cant wait to see it again :)
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Is it this place?
If so it is definitely still going - or rather it was in June.
We often cycle up there for breakfast.
It changed ownership at the time the Barut hotel opened and was done up quite a bit.
There are often Turkish families having big family meals there.
Ian
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Helen's was the 1881..she was married to Dust.. They did the best Turkish breakfast ever.. They split up and she became gravely ill.. I may be mistaken but I think she has since died.?
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So sorry to hear that Helen may have died. I knew her when she was married to Suat and it did not work out so she was working with Mehmet. She had a heart attack I believe but recovered.I know her health was not good. Last time I spoke to her was at the airport.
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Suatts 1881 was probably the first restaurant we visited 12 years ago when Vicri was cooking before he went to Hisaronou,I wonder what happened to him.
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before Helen was involved with the 1881, they had the place in the picture. Was a bit different then
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I made a mistake. Helen worked with Mutlu at what was once the 188i. I think Suat went to prison and then remarried. When I first met Helen she had a lovely little cake shop with another British lady at the end of Ovacik as you head to Kaya,it was lovely to go there about four in the afternoon for tea and cakes.
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Is it this place?
If so it is definitely still going - or rather it was in June.
We often cycle up there for breakfast.
It changed ownership at the time the Barut hotel opened and was done up quite a bit.
There are often Turkish families having big family meals there.
Ian
Yes that's the place as I remember it
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When I first visited calis in 2001 we stayed at Telomosse ,which I still think is an amazing little complex. We would go to Helen and Suats place for an evening meal with the kids . A few years later they both bought into 1881 , and ran that for a few more years .
Suat and Helen broke up and Helen did die about 5 years ago . Suat works with Max and Fuat at the Koca Calis restaurant. I have seen his photos on the Facebook page .
The one thing I will say about that little beach bar when they both owned it was that they gave amazing size shots in their drinks and the food was exerllent quality..fantastic BBQ Nights and lovely Turkish breakfast . Of all my memories that bar holds the best at that time . We go every year to that beach and spend a couple of days of our holiday there, and as I have said it has changed hand many times , and it now has lovely toilets and showers and it is really clean and organised .... but , I loved the shack bar that suat ran , with the puppies playing in the sand and the chickens walking round freely, to me that was the Turkey I fell in love with .