Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Bar and Restaurant Questions and Discussions => Topic started by: nichola on July 06, 2015, 10:30:26 AM
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Beach
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Lovely distressed bench
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Lunch
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View from private köşk
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Cocktails at sundown
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Mixed meze
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Octopus
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What a fabulous way to spend your day off! Looks amazing! ;D 8) ;D
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What a nice way to spend a Monday.
Want to be there !
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You can Savoyboy - while the UK is on red alert :o :-\ 8)
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Just visited a new local dressmaker who told me is off on holiday in 4 weeks to Lanzarote. She then went on to tell me it was a last minute booking and she wanted to go to Turkey as she loves it there. However, her partner said he would not go because of what happened in Tunisia. Probably a lot of people are thinking this just now.
Back to the thread. The Ada is lovely, I would highly recommend it.
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Nichola, I really value your restaurant reviews. They all seem to be restaurants which appear to be of a very high quality and often in beautiful locations. Such a change from the usual chips, rice and salad brigade. Considering the reputation and attainment of Mozaik Bahce, your praise is very high praise indeed. Thank you so much. :D
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Thanks and you're very welcome Sadler :)
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I love it there Nicola. Your photos are beautiful as are the cocktails too! lol. xx
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What's worrying the bench Nichola?
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haha :)
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The beach was great but I found the food and drink overpriced and only average! Plus the service was really slow.
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Been a few times, sunsets really great from upstairs part. Liked it so much taking 20 people for my birthday bash in August. Sunday brunch very good as well.
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We thought the food was lovely and the service could not have been better, you get what you pay for. Where in the U.K. would you get taken over to a private island by boat, to use their beach and have meals served in a wonderful restaurant with fabulous views? I think we can all imagine just what this would cost.
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Been over there many times with friends for breakfast which was really good,discovered this island many years ago I used to catch a lift on a small boat that takes over all the building materials.Its a good day out exploring the island theres also some old ruins on parts of the island and I was lead to beleave that property over there was very expensive.
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Cheapest house is a million pounds. I have heard Gerry Halliwell has a house over there.
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Cheapest house is a million pounds.
Complete nonsense. Expensive yes, but not that expensive.
JF
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The only way we knew was, about 10 years ago, we were shown the schedule for one by an Estate Agent we knew. It was one million(Sterling). It was lovely and had it's own mooring for a boat. She told us that was a normal price for the Island and when she won the lottery she was going to live over there. We had no reason to disbelieve her.
Had a look on the net and the ones for sale are not far off the millon mark. Think we might have a run over and have a look now I know some are under a million :) ;D
http://www.propertyturkeyforsale.com/p/sovalye-island/
Might go for the two bedroom one
Price: £1,350,000 / €1,845,990
Nonsense eh JF.
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Nonsense eh JF.
Yep. Complete bollox in fact.
Pop in and see Mustafa at Falcon and you can have a do'er upper for £230,00 or a 400m2 house with private beach for £490k. A quick search shows other sub £1m properties, which kinda makes your "Cheapest house is a million pounds." look a bit stupid, even though you did manage to hunt a £1m+ one down.,
JF
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Sorry Jacqui - the cheapest isn't a million
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Watch this space.....
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had our last supper here on Monday night, our first visit to the island
overall thought it was excellent. Great setting on roof top
starters, stuffed calamari rings, garlic prawns, and 2 massive puffy bread with dips on the house, all excellent
mains, salmon steak from barbecue, lamb shank, fillet steak, chicken curry, and sea bream
again couldn't fault the food or service.
only small things were, by the time our main meal came it was dark and lighting was very poor we were given
more candles for table but still very dark, and thought it was I bit pricey, around 800lira for 6 people
2 bottles of wine and 2 beers included.
We had equally good meals for lot less money including
Bella mamma, merhaba, meeting point, Istanbul (kaya), mosaic, buzz (oludeniz), Cassa de mama
the palms, the hotel letoon upstairs and pasa kebab (fethiye)
some better than other, but all excellent value
roll on October
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I think that was a good price, it is not only the meal being more expensive than, say Pasa Kebab, it is the fact your are taken out by boat (no charge) to eat on a private island. If someone else could say where in the world you could get this sort of meal and service for £24.00 per head, please let us know.
I think we are a bit spoilt in Calis and Fethiye by wonderfully cheap meal prices.
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Alcatraz if you are in not too much of a hurry or Forbes Island, San Francisco for oysters.
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How do yo make a reservation ?
Telephone or email ?
Please.
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Email or telephone them. We prefer to telephone as they sometimes take longer to answer emails, if they are busy.
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Not a good price for Calis in my book Jacqui
Comparing it to Meeting Point (not withstanding that there maybe differences in courses ordered):
Meeting Point Food (2 courses): 77tl per couple
Meeting Point for 6 people: 3 x 77 = 231tl
Drinks 2 Bottles wine + 2 beers = 100tl
Total = 331 as opposed to 800 !!!!
What that does tell me is that the boat transfer is anything but free.
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Does anyone know email or phone number ?
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Thank you highlander.
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If anyone knows would still like to know the email or telephone number of Sovalye Island Ada Restaurant Please.
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Try the following from their facebook page savoyboy
Transport and Reservations tel : 0 533 138 7050
adarestaurant@sovalyeisland.com
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Thank you H.
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H has not been over to the Ada as far as I know Savoyboy, but he did what I did when I read about it and wanted to book. I Googled it and low and behold there it was :)
http://www.sovalyeisland.com/ecesovalye/id2.htm
H, Please go over first and experience the whole event before you compare it with the Meeting Point, a place incidentally, that we love and always patronise. This is a totally different way of eating or even spending the day on a private beach.
So, before comparing prices, please experience and then come back and made your critique.
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Not Been here yet, but it's sounds interesting, and I don't think you can compare it with a typical Calis restaurant because it has a unique setting.
We have happliily paid an arm and a leg for the privilege of sitting and having a beer in the Victor Emmanual Arcade in Milan.
Equally, the other arm and leg was sacrificed for a capuchino in St Marks Square.
Different countries I know. But sometimes the setting is worth paying for.
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So, before comparing prices, please experience and then come back and made your critique.
I'll consider it if you consider experiencing Mangal and/or Motto. :)
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Totally agree Sue. I read reviews of the River Cafe in Brooklyn and so wanted to go when we went to N.Y. So before we went I tried to book through different agencies. It was booked up for weeks ahead and we could not get in. I wrote directly to the restaurant saying we were coming from Scotland etc., They did give us a table. I could not believe it. It was the most expensive restaurant we have ever been to, but was worth every penny, the views were fabulous, and they gave us a table right next to a window to look out over the Hudson and the Brooklyn Bridge to New York. The food was wonderful and the service was exemplary.
There is no doubt that having an eating experience in somewhere fabulous is always worth paying for and you never forget it. It is more than just lovely food.
It matters not a fig if someone quotes prices for the run of the mill good restaurants, because you have to pay a little more for a great experience.
Every place needs somewhere "special" to eat. We are so lucky in Calis to have this place and should not dismiss it without even trying it, which I think is very unfair. After all, it is our holidays and we are not eating there every week.
I wish the Ada well and hope for their continued success.
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.....and should not dismiss it without even trying it, which I think is very unfair.
Mangal, Motto
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It matters not a fig if someone quotes prices for the run of the mill good restaurants, because you have to pay a little more for a great experience.
And.............
For the record it was kevmclean2001 who mentioned the Meeting Point and your good self who thought it a good price.
Having recently eaten at the Meeting Point I thought it relevant to compare prices even given that it was two "different" restaurants.
At 240 % more I do not consider it to be a good price. Is that ok.
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I think you H (and of course Frances, no suprises there) are missing the point.
The Ada is being dismissed by you for no other reason but the price and not the quality of the food or the eating experience.
On a happy note..since Phil gave up smoking, he reckons he could eat at places like the River Cafe and Ada every night of our holidays and still be saving money on the tobacco products he would have bought in the last 5 years.
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I was not comparing it to meeting point
Was just saying we had experienced a lot of different restaurants
All very good, and don't mind paying for a special setting which this undoubtably is
However I think you can have as good, at half the price in Calis
I would say try it and make up your own mind
They certainly were not fully booked weeks in advance
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Tell them you are coming from Scotland.
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I think that was a good price, it is not only the meal being more expensive than, say Pasa Kebab, it is the fact your are taken out by boat (no charge) to eat on a private island. If someone else could say where in the world you could get this sort of meal and service for £24.00 per head, please let us know.
I think we are a bit spoilt in Calis and Fethiye by wonderfully cheap meal prices.
I make the price to be around £32 a head....
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Tell them you are coming from Scotland.
Yawn.
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Point missed.
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It was indeed - can you enlighten me please. :)
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Just like to mention that Sue & myself had a fantastic time at Ada Restaurant today.
We were there for 6 hours and enjoyed every minute of it.
The staff were very efficient and our lunch was excellent.
We will certainly go back and enjoy the experience again.
IMO the total cost for the day, just over GBP50.00 was not excessive. :)
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Did you have a plate of chips to share and a small water
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No kevmclean2001 we actually had this...lol
I think yours worked out as 130YTL average, ours just over 100.
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And they even charged for the sun loungers.... I think this is expensive, 65 lira for lamb......and 40 lira for sea bass. Why do they charge for the sun loungers is you are eating and drinking there?
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I think restaurants are what you want. If you want cheap you can sit on white plastic chairs in a back street and get cheap. If you want a boat trip out to a private island to eat, drink and have a lovely pleasant day you can pay the extra in Turkey (extra, which would be ridiculously cheap in the U.K. )It is entirely up to the individual.
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I sort of think that but I think the same way about restaurants as I do about holidays or hotels. It's all about value for money, not cost in money. We can pay £80 for a nice meal for the four of us in a nice setting - and we can spend £20 for a meal for 4 at Frank Cannons for example - plastic patio chairs, plastic tablecloths and paper napkins from a box dispenser (that thud was Jacqui fainting).
The £80 meal was worth it. The £20 meal was worth it. Was the £80 meal four times more enjoyable than the £20 one was satisfying? Probably not.
Value per pound, that's the key to life economics, and I have a A level in economics so I'm definitely right ;)
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We have been to Frank Cannon's and it was very nice. We would go for a first night or a meal after a long day when we did not want to make an effort. It is not the sort of dress up and go out place,but is is good and cheap.
We are in Edinburgh now. We have just been out for a Chinese Meal at a Restaurant we know well. A Chinese Family run Restaurant.
We had drinks before meal G.&.T. and Beer then a bottle of wine. Free prawn crackers and water, a lovely starter for two with lots of choices (too much really) Two huge mains that were so good and Irish Coffees with after eight mints and then orange slices with hot towels. We had a lovely long meal, unrushed and in a great setting. Meal was £80 and worth every penny. It is not just the price. It is the whole experience we love
We could have gone to a Jimmy Chung type place for half the cost. It is value for money that we like and we got it tonight.
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But you would have got value for money at Jimmy Chungs too!!
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p.s. I get dressed up to go to Frank Cannons :D
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I wear the same clothes which ever restaurant I am going to in Calis.
Why in all that is sane would I not.
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I don't wear the same clothes, because we always go to Frank Cannons immediately after our transfer from Dalaman and we have dropped our bags off at the hotel. After a day of travelling those clothes are a bit sweaty - I can't imagine wearing those same clothes for the next 7 nights :D
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Yeah, Yeah........ :)
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In seriousness, I have never got dressed up to go to any restaurant in Calis or Fethiye - I bring clothes and I put them on with no thought as to where we are dining that night.
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Jimmy Chungs has closed down it used to have a branch next to the Chinese we use, we noted last night it was all board up.
I always shower and change to go out at night. I would not want to go out in the clothes I wore all day.
I note a lot of women in Calis and Fethye change in the evenings and always look very nice. Phil changes to, as wild horses would not get him out at night in shorts...
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>:( :-X Why Jacqui? Has he got funny legs,q 8) 8) :-[ :P ;D
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They are very pale as they don't see the light of day much in Scotland.... However, Phil feels going out at night requires long trousers.
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It also gives the mosquitoes less to target ;)
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I wear what I want to wear, what others may think is not important to me, and i'm not into
the fine dining thing or designer meals. A good meal in a Lokanta suits me fine.
By the same token I wouldn't dream of telling others how to dress or where to dine.
The fortunate thing is we can afford to eat, others are not so lucky.!!
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I wear what I want to wear
Yeah well, we all know what that means ;)
JF
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I always make an effort to dress-up when I'm going to eat out.
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KKOB you look good... .. Are you at Chipperfields this week?
I also wear what I want to wear and I enjoy wearing what I want to.
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John
Hot food and Mankini's don't go well together, not when you're a messy eater. ;)
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Take your word for it Kevin...
JF
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What about Burns night Jacqui, does Phil show a leg then? 8) :P >: 8) :angel:
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I always shower and change to go out at night. I would not want to go out in the clothes I wore all day.
I think you misunderstood - of course I get changed for going out!! My point was that I don't have specific 'outfits' or items of clothing depending on what type of restaurant we are going to. I wear whatever I feel like each evening., I don't have posher clothes for posher restaurants for example.
Who needs to have to make such decisions on holiday!
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Ladies do Scunner,hee hee'
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No, Davy, he will not wear a kilt, not even an Irish one.
Scunner, Most women love to dress up at night. I always have night attire. No point in spending life in the same old clothes and never getting dressed up and feeling good. Our son takes after me, I think. He is a self employed plumber and even for work he will only wear navy or black trousers and tee shirts. I bought him a grey tee shirt a while ago, specifically for work, but he said he would not wear it as it did not match his work clothing. He also takes longer than his wife to get ready when they goes out at night...
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i thought vthis was a solvalye post
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Night attire? PJ's and or nightie do you mean? Hope there's a dressing gown thrown in for good measure.
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KKOB you look good... .. Are you at Chipperfields this week?
Nope. They don't use animals anymore. ;)
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I thought this was post was about about Sovalye Ada restaurant post to ?
At least 7 posts that have nothing to do with Topic.
My mistake for going off topic.
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Including yours there
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Can I summarise?
Ada restaurant/Sovalye Island: Beautiful, peaceful spot. Food is good. Getting there is something of a novelty. You pay a comparative premium for the experience, but you still could not compare it to anything price-wise in the UK.
Would I recommend it: YES!
Can I also add that you can visit during the day, use the "beach club" and have lunch, or visit for an evening meal. Added advantage is you can get pides during the day, but not at night (* as of Summer 2014, at least)