Authentic Turkish Food

[Eric]

Plonker:D:

[Toky]

Ha ha ha!!!.

[Scunner]

I think you'll struggle for truly authentic food in Calis, sadly. Not much more than a doner anyway   Fethiye is the place to go, or even up to Gunlukbasi for one of the cheap and filling Lokanta restaurants.

[june]

Mosaic every time....food amazing....and fhe company of lovely Nichola and Doganxx

[screamlead]

I 2nd lokantas, brilliant at 3am ish for a fill up on the way home!
Also on the road out of town (antalya road) near to the wood place, a small turkish run kebab place open all hours think its called 49 shampion or something. Serves the best kokorec going, chopped and blitzed sheeps stomach with salad in half a bread - really tasty! Sit down menu or take away.

[Robw]

Jimmy`s soup kitchen in Calis is authentic!  

[Jacqui Harvey]

How do we define "Authentic".  We are in Turkey, we go into a restaurant owned by Turkish people, we order from the Turkish menu if we get a Turkish meal with rice and chips does this make the main meal any less authentic?  The Brits ask for Full English Breakfasts, Sunday Roasts and Steak with Chips so the Turks are only too glad to provide it, so, it's our faults that there are less purely Turkish Restaurants.  However, when we get a really excellent Turkish Restaurant like the Mosaic Bahce which ticks every box, we all love it and rightly so.  It goes to No.1 on Trip Advisor, so what do we really want on our holidays in Turkey?

[suehugh]

I agree with jackie unusually
Food in Calis is generally Turkish-Ok, so no sheeps stomach-But I ask you, who would eat that. You will tell me tripe is authentic English next.
There is a whole cacophanie of turkish dishes available on the prom. Turkish ingrediants cooked by turkish chefs.

[Scunner]

So if I make a pide here in the UK, I have made a British dish cooked by a British person using British ingredients? Sorry but there's a lot more to "authentic" local dishes than where the ingredients are from and where the chef was born!!! The 'perfect' seafront menu is seen by most restaurateurs as "what next door has". Over the years the very idea to drop chicken kiev lasts until they see someone dining next door eating one and the following night it is reinstated. The decision to drop it cost them dearly the night before. The place is overloaded with grey, poorly researched and badly produced versions of dozens and dozens of dishes that have no connection to Turkey. Cr*ppy Mexican, awful Indian, tv dinner quality Chinese - why even offer things if you can't do them 100% authentically? How many offer even pide, let alone Iskender kebap and the other traditional favourites?

I'm not saying there is no place for non-Turkish food, of course there is - but every restaurant offering the very same list of it is rather sad.

[june]

Its so true, how many times have we said in the past how ever many years, if they see something working at another restaurant they take the idea...if you can call it that!, they cant bear to miss out hence the reason that they all serve...chicken, steak etc with Rice Chips and salad.....

I adore the traditional Lokanta's they are brill, and because Mosaic serves such lovely different really tasty food is why we like it so much and want to keep going back.