Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Scunner on November 13, 2009, 11:37:54 AM
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Away from the tourist restaurants there is a very warm feeling to be had in enjoying a wholesome, tasty meal for a couple of quid at a traditional Turkish lokanta.Nothing like pointing at different dishes through the glass to order a bit of several to find out which you like :)
We were/are big fans of the Olu Deniz Lokantasi. Anyone have other recommendations?
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Megri for me....good food , good prices excellent service :D:D
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Can't remember the name but the one just before Migros coming in from Fethiye. White beans and rice - delicious.
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Megri, Kral and Samdan for me
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Mr Scunner, I have been diligently searching for the Twat Lokantasi that you mentioned in a thread some time ago, without success.
Buddy
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Hahaha I remember that well Bud, near the Berk restaurant as I recall?
Should also have mentioned the Megri Lokantasi myself, always lovely food, especially their Iskender kebap, nice staff and perfect for people watching. Or as I call it, taking the p***.
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Olu Deniz locanta is always too dirty for my liking.
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Ozbey in Gunlukbasi, just changed its name from Kosem good food good prices loads of freebies bread meze sald etc, superb Adana kepab.
Mark
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Samdan gets our vote too. :)
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We always go to one in Fethiye that used to be called the Bazim by the fish market. Its changed its name now but we have never had a duff of expensive lunch in there. Can't remember its new name though i'm afraid.
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The two on the main Gunlukbasi road are good but my favourite has to be Okbasi (SP?)in Fethyie
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I don't like the Oludeniz Lokanta (feel the same as Gorgeous Bird) but recently went to Seckin on recommendation - very nice. SImple, friendly and clean.
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We were regular visitors to OD lokanta as it is only a a few minutes walk away but having had a prawn salad which had hot prawns which you could snap in half (Microwave!) and the owner would not accept was anything wrong we have not been for a couple of years now. He must have lost hundreds of TL from us as in addition to dinner with our friends we often popped in for a couple of beers and a pizza at lunchtime. Without a doubt Mozaik Bahce is now numero uno. Maybe not a couple of quid but worth every Kurus. :)
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We usually go to the GARR 3
The food is very good & the staff are exceptionally nice
Chicken soup is the best i've ever tasted
The only thing that spoils the place is the toilet is always stinking.
A lot of people i know check out toilets first before eating
They must be loosing a lot of custom it's a shame as every thing else is spotless.
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Megri for us if we're feeling posh, Seckin for a cheap, wholesome meal, crazy waiters and a spicy lentil soup to die for !!
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Seckin is just up the road from us and we love to sit there at night and justb watch the goings on all around, it's miles better than the sea front.
Where is the Megri ?
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the one opposite the exit to migros fanastic roast chicken which they can foil wrap to take away and great value. why do turks drive into mirgros via the exit quite unnerving.
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Well I'm disappointed to read such negative posts about the Olu Deniz, we never thought of it as dirty in any way - although it may be 2 years + since we've been there. We used to be regulars before. It was always fairly busy with Brits and Turks. Off the list I think :)
Rimms, the Megri is between the Duck Pond and the back road, on the corner.
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The Sahil next to Migros for me. We always eat exactly the same every time we visit, and because the waiters know this, they have our order ready before we have even got out of the car. Think I may change my order 1 day just to confuse them ;) Lovely and clean there (well until my youngest turns up to eat beans and rice anyway...but they don't seem to mind the mess he makes!)
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Originally posted by Rimms
Seckin is just up the road from us and we love to sit there at night and justb watch the goings on all around, it's miles better than the sea front.
Where is the Megri ?
Next to The Duck Pond, just off main road
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Sorry, blind (or just daft !), somebody's already answered that one.
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Originally posted by Gorgeous_bird
Can't remember the name but the one just before Migros coming in from Fethiye. White beans and rice - delicious.
Sounds like one of ours could be the Sahil.
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Sahil is our favourite too. The seckin at Gunlukbasi or the one next to the Gar come a close second.
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There's one in Mugla (town) where the glass goes on and on, maybe for 10 or 15 metres. So vast was the choice that I took a photo of it, and they all thought I was a right div :D
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Samdan & Sahil for me
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what defines a locanta from a restraunt? I wouldn't say for example that Ojacbasi is a locanta I think that is a restraunt. To me a Locanta is like a cafeteria where the food is ready prepared and ready to be ordered. Is that right?
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That's my opinion too
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sahil is my favourite lunch time eating place at the moment too...., clean. good service , good prices and good food.
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big differance is a lokanta is not licenseed to serve booze.
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licensed..!!! sorry you spellaholics!!
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They sell booze in the Seckin.
Thanks for the Megri info, will give it a try in 5 weeks time! I have past it loads of times but always thought it looked quite posh (expensive)
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Originally posted by Rimms
They sell booze in the Seckin.
Thought they did - Nick likes it there and wouldn't if they didn't sell beer.[^]
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The Megri Lokantasi and Olu Deniz Lokantasi also sell booze
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In the days when we frequented OD lokanta we were having a beer at lunchtime when we had our beer taken away from us and put out of sight.One of the owners told us the tax inspectors had pulled up in a minibus just across the road and he was not licensed to sell beer. The inspectors then drove away and we were given our beer back.[?]:D
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Seckin for me everytime. Staff are great with the kids and food is aways good.Love it in the winter when it is cosy with the burner and in summer it's great to sit outside and watch the world go by It's also within staggering distance of our apartment!
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seckin for me also!
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I used to really like the Birlik cafe in Fethiye (near the fish market) but they knocked it down and built shops which to my knowledge are still standing empty. I have not seen the business surface elswhere. The Turkish rice pudding was lovely.
Anyone who bought from BNA a few years ago will have been there, it was where Nick & Aysun used to take people after signing the deal.
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We loved itthere too George and often wondered what happened to the staff as we'e not came across them anywhere else:(
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The staff were really good, it seems a common theme with Lokanta staff, I wonder why?
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The Birlik reappeared at the roundabout in Akarca. Opened, then soon disappeared. It was another great Lokanta in Fethiye.
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it was good in there, sampled my first lentil soup in there. Great people watching, I witnessed the meeing of a young man and his dad with a young girl and her parents there. So interesting, mum and daughter shot off to the loo together to discuss the young man and then a little later it was agreed that they could walk out together with mum a few feet behind. I'm such a nosey bugger! The little guy who worked in there moved on to a little kebab shop just a few metres along the road.
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The place where the Birlik was near the Akarca roundabout has been refurbished and looks set to re-open again (but probably not as the Birlik)
Baz 8)
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SAHIL 2 - just along the road from Migros is my favourite.
Always a good range of traditional dishes and the most fantastic chicken soup (a meal in itself) try the garlic oil drizzled on the top........gorgeous.
They do deliver too - and the soup arrived well sealed and packed.
worth a try.
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another birlik...near the hayal cinema in fethiye used to be good food and cheap.but seems to have gone off these days.
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Its the Sahil for us too. Always enjoyed our meals in there. Always lovely and clean and good service. Completely agree about the chicken soup. Hmm.. my mouth is watering!
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if your feeling peckish in dalaman and dont fancy porriage chicken!
there is a very nice little lokanta about 100 yards down the main high st. on the left hand side.
great food and cheap too.
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try the little place near our hunting club, enter the street where mulberry tree restaurant is and 50 meters late on the right. lunch 3 courses is 5 lira and definatly the the best soups in town.
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seckin for me, love it there. The food is great and the staff really nice, and love to sit out there in the summer and watch the comings and goings. Is always popular with Turkish families too. Seems like the whole family comes out to eat. Really clean and friendly place. :)
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Seckin for us as well.When we are over,there at least 3-4 times my mother inlaw loves it,there is always something for her to eat.Staff great,great food. When in Fethiye Tas Firin for a snack and a cup of coffee,nice clean premises,nice staff.
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Mine and Dogan's favourite is Birlik just up from the cinema in Fethiye. I always used to have the aubergine (Mousakka), best I have ever had anywhere but if they have the mushroom dish available I have that - it's very yummy!
We always have 2 mains, couscous and yoghurt and it comes to 11TL.
Not a place where you would linger but if you want a tasty bite to eat in a hurry this is definitely well worth trying.
Womens toilets are clean - but why do the men always use the women's toilet; not just here either. Is there something wrong with theirs[?]
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yes,they smell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
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The Sahil for me next to migros best iskender bebab
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A new place,Kekik Ev,almost opposite Alo 24 , opens lunch time only, 11.00am - 4.00 pm. Small selection of home style food,superbly cooked and cheap. Very friendly atmosphere. Highly recommended . I went with a Turkish friend who thought white beans as good as his mothers. Praise indeed!
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Where is your hunting club [?]
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Originally posted by ytokgoz
try the little place near our hunting club, enter the street where mulberry tree restaurant is and 50 meters late on the right. lunch 3 courses is 5 lira and definatly the the best soups in town.
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Near the Mulberry Tree restaurant lol
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Slightly off topic I know, but is the Olu Deniz Lokanta the one by the Otogar in Fethiye and isn't it a guest house as well?
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if its the one on the corner by the canal it has changed hands recently.. and that one does have rooms too
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At the top of the family favourites for our whole holiday was the Sahil Lokanta next to Migros. We had lunch there on day 1 and dinner before heading to Dalaman for our flight home. Absolutely fabulous, as agreed by all four of us. It's fantastic that you can have all the fancy menus and flash restaurants but also at the economy end of the scale have places like Sahil where the food is traditional, wholesome and still amazing value for money.
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Thanks Nichola,I have had a problem with my transfer company (via Thomas Cook) who wouldn't drop my daughter at the Otogar despite doing this in the past. I needed a hotel name that was near by and this was the only one I could come up with. I will now worry that they will cart her off to Olu Deniz instead!I couldn't remember the name of the Blue Hotel by the canal almost opposite so hopefully this wil be ok
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Petra am going to try to check the details out for you - if not today tomo. Drop me a private mail if you don't hear back here by tomo evening
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Thanks Nichola, I really appreciate that.
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Originally posted by Gorgeous_bird
it was good in there, sampled my first lentil soup in there. Great people watching, I witnessed the meeing of a young man and his dad with a young girl and her parents there. So interesting, mum and daughter shot off to the loo together to discuss the young man and then a little later it was agreed that they could walk out together with mum a few feet behind. I'm such a nosey bugger! The little guy who worked in there moved on to a little kebab shop just a few metres along the road.
One of my favourite lokantas too, the little guy who worked there has now moved on he was at the one a few yards down then he moved to the one where the dolmus unload in March he was working in a lokanta opposite the otogar.
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Petra the new name of the pension/guest house on the end corner by the canal is Kopru and that is o and u with dots and means bridge.
I am sure as there will be a TC rep on the transfer and if your daughter says the name of the guest house and makes it clear it is just up from on and the opposite side of the road to Carrefore and Tekno in Fethiye she will be fine.
Nichola
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The megri was my fav but have gone off it slightly and now really like the Samdan, and they also sell wine which I must have when eating!
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Thank You Nichola, your help is really appreciated. If she ends up in Olu Deniz, she'll just have to get on a Dolmus back as at least it's not in the middle of the night and she'll end up back in the right place!
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:D
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Went to the Garr 3 again while we were over & the food was top class as usual
but still the ladies toilets are stinking. It is such a shame as the staff & their service is excellent. Would have gone there more but turned off after wading through the tiolet