Restaurants, bars, food festivals in Turkey

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The traditional cuisine of Turkey

Power in Turkey - exciting time for tourists planning to spend your holidays in this country. But do not worry - in Turkey, you will not go hungry, as many hotels operate on the system "All inclusive" and "Ultra All inclusive" (this is especially true for families with children).
Food in Turkey

Favorite dishes of Turkish citizens are dishes of lamb, beef, fish, poultry, vegetables, cereals, legumes.
Turkish cuisine is very diverse: alone kebabs here are more than 20 species.
The basis of Turkish cuisine make bread and flour products. Local bakeries are located everywhere: there 2 times a day, not only baked white bread, but round cakes, sprinkle with sesame seeds, and flat pita.
Eat in Turkey can be in a variety of catering establishments. It offers:
- Restaurants (they serves Turkish, Asian and European cuisine);
- Lokanty (in these cafes, diners can sample Turkish cuisine: all dishes are prepared in advance, and thanks to the iron trays, they are still warm);
- Fish restaurants and lokanty (prices in these restaurants is higher than normal, because fish and seafood in Turkey are not cheap);
- Chorbadji (in these institutions are the main dishes soups and some snacks);
- Kebabchi (in these institutions can be enjoyed kebabs and meat dishes).
Drinks in Turkey

The most popular alcoholic drink is Turkish raki (anisette). In addition, Turkey should taste the wine (it is produced in the western parts of the country) - Karasi, Kalecik, Bogazkere, Karasakiz.
As for non-alcoholic beverages in Turkey is widespread tea - it made a strong drink from small cups.
Gastronomic tour to Turkey

If you have time to enjoy the tourist Turkey, it's time to get acquainted with culinary Turkey.
Going on a culinary tour, you go early in the morning at the fish market, where you can talk to the fishermen, listen to their advice and find out the secrets of recipes fish dishes.
If you go on a tour of the big markets in Istanbul, you can taste all the most delicious of all vendors and learn to find rare spices.
You may want to embark on a gastronomic journey through Coffee shops Istanbul: you can rasprobovat halva, baklava and other traditional sweets Istanbul.
If your goal - not only to enjoy the culinary delights, but also learn how to cook some dishes, you can visit the cooking classes, which teach you to cut, oven and stuff, but also to pick up your food with spices, ingredients and even wine.
Do you want to bring back from Turkey's most valuable souvenir? Learn how to cook some Turkish dishes at special workshops.

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Where to eat in Istanbul?


"Where to eat in Istanbul?" - The actual question that always arises in each room in the Turkish city.
Where to eat in Istanbul cheap?

If your goal - inexpensive meal, can give preference to street food: Simit - bagel with sesame seeds can be bought for $ 0.5, roasted chestnuts - $ 2/100 g, stuffed mussels - $ 1-1.5 / few. Cheap meal can be on the Istanbul market where you can buy, for example, cheese Peynir, Kumpir, a variety of sweets and nuts.

Another option is to visit a cheap snack Turkish traditional fast food - lokantov. For example, for a hearty meal of 3 dishes in the Balkan Lokantasi you give about $ 5-7. For a delicious and inexpensive food you can go to a cafe-restaurant Siva - and serves pizza, sandwiches, salads, traditional Turkish dishes (you will please fast service).
Where to eat in Istanbul delicious?

Ciya: in institutions of this restaurant chain, you can enjoy traditional dishes, the recipes of which have been collected throughout Turkey. Here you can sample dozens of different kinds of kebab (onion kebab, kebab lamb liver), eggplant stuffed with rice and mutton, lamb, extinguished with beans, eggplants and tomatoes, pumpkin desserts.
Rejans: this restaurant specializes in international cuisine (in the menu, you can find both Turkish and Russian cuisine). So, here you can order the Russian meatballs, pancakes with caviar 3 types (Iranian, salmon, beluga), lemon vodka.
Sultanahmet: the walls of the restaurant is decorated with ancient marine equipment and ship models. Here you can enjoy delicious fish and seafood, and in the evening - enjoy the firework displays, which are arranged directly in the hall, around the tables.
Metropolis: the menu of this restaurant represented Turkish and Ottoman cuisine (emphasis in this institution is placed on seafood). In addition, you will please a wide choice of white, pink and red wines, and traditional Turkish desserts. If you are going to rest here in the summer, you can dine in the garden by the light of lanterns, and in winter you will be offered to stay in one of two rooms with fireplaces.

Gastronomic tours of Istanbul

On the gastronomic tour of Istanbul you will walk through the colorful bazaar where you can taste and buy a variety of products. As part of this tour you will be told about the local cuisine and the main dishes, as well as advise in any restaurant, cafe and delicatessen shop worth visiting. In addition, you will be taken to one of the best places where you can eat dessert chicken breast and a drink from the roots of wild orchids. If you wish, you will be taken to the spice market, the shop to dealers cheese, pastry shops (here you can taste Turkish delight and candied fruit).

Turkish food is very tasty, and you can try it everywhere - on the streets, in parks, waterfronts ...

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Drinks Turkey

In secular Turkey to special restrictions on the use of any drinks to tourists are not taken. However, even the Turks themselves do not mind a nip raki or cool off in the heat of the ice mug of beer. Most also traditional drinks of Turkey - strong coffee, black tea cups, tulips, meshrubaty and ayran.
alcohol Turkey

Customs restrictions on the importation of duty-free include liter of alcohol per tourist and a small amount of coffee or tea for personal use. The last point is illogical: the country is known as one of the best places in the world, which serves wonderful coffee and flavored tea.
Removal of alcohol is not limited by the state, so that travelers are willing to buy as souvenirs alcohol Turkey, called "Raky." Prices of locally produced spirits in the shops of the country ranges from 10 euros per liter (as of 2014).
The national drink of Turkey

Country coffee, Turkey is proud of its reputation and shows visitors dozens of ways to prepare invigorating drink. This is where the coffee came in salons and boudoirs of Europe and began its triumphal march around the world. In Istanbul or Antalya every coffee shop has in stock branded prescription and guests choose, depending on your preference:

Kahwa - cooked on the coals, unbearably sweet and thick.
Syutlyu - with milk and sugar.
Kremaly - adding the fatty cream.
Sad - black, bitter
Turk-kahvesi - traditional Turkish burning with a glass of ice water.

Fans of tea disputed the palm traditionally appropriated coffee, brewed and recommend guests in this chaydanlyke strong and aromatic drink. Eat masterpiece should be in a special place. It is called "tea garden", and going there to discuss the town gossip, criticize the government or the youth of today and share their impressions of the scanned series regular "soap opera".
Alcoholic beverages Turkey

The main national drink of Turkey, in which there are degrees, called raki. This kind of anisette strong enough and inexpensive. Turks prefer it at all feasts, but drinking heavily diluted and a plentiful snack. Mixed with water, drink raki called "lion's milk", but the brandy, gin or whiskey prefer neat and on special occasions due to the relatively high cost. In addition to hard liquor in the country worth a try excellent local beer, delicious especially in provincial towns.

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Wines of Turkey

Like many countries of the Mediterranean region, Turkey keen wine, and love is more than one millennium. Already eight centuries before the Christian era residents of modern Turkey produced wine, what wine tours fans tell archaeological finds. Many centuries ago, wine grapes and Turkey were the main product that comes from here in different regions of the Old World.
Islam and the tradition of winemaking

The Muslim religion of the majority population in Turkey, does not welcome the use and manufacture of alcoholic beverages. This has resulted in the development of various methods of processing of grapes during the Ottoman Empire. Obtained from the fruit juices and cooked marmalade, cooked oriental sweets and dried fruits.
Victory in the twentieth century, the new government headed by Ataturk give the green light to winemaking, and new masters began to remember the old secrets. And yet, despite the fourth in the world in terms of cultivated grapes, only a quarter of the fruit is given to the wine. Turkey ready wines are available in Europe and in the Western Hemisphere.
Regions and varieties

The most prolific region of Turkey, which gives the largest amount of fruits grapes - Aegean. The shores of the Sea is the best place with the ideal for the cultivation of vines capricious climate. Considerable amounts are grown in Southeast and Central Anatolia and the Mediterranean coast.
For wine production in the country of Turkey cultivated many white and red grape varieties, the most popular among them:

Grapes Ahmad Bey. From it is prepared dry ordinary wine. The features of these drinks - reasonable prices and assured quality.
Gewurztraminer - Class berries, allowing a blended white wine with a rich bouquet of aromas and spicy taste.
Riesling is ideal for the production of white wines Turkey with bright citrus notes and aftertaste of apple, pineapple and peach. With age, the Turkish Riesling enhances honey color tone and is especially tasty.
Has generous lemon scented Chardonnay wine from which insist in oak barrels to give it a special nutty flavor.
Merlot - variety, ranks second in the world in terms of prevalence. Despite the popularity of these fruits allow wine to cook with unique organoleptic properties. Wines of Turkey from Merlot grapes have a luxurious fruity flavor with hints of caramel, chocolate and even coffee.

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Cooking Turkey

Turkish Cuisine - this variety of dishes and flavors: it can not be called acute because the spices are added in relatively moderate amounts (for each dish chosen certain seasonings).
National cuisine of Turkey

The Turkish cuisine is used for cooking meat (poultry, lamb, veal), vegetables (spinach, eggplant, artichokes, peppers, tomatoes), cereals, legumes (beans, peas), herbs, spices.

It is worth noting that for the preparation of meat often used spit. In this way prepared, for example, shish kebab and kyufta.

In the north, Turkey's preference for fish dishes (shish kebab pilaf or anchovy), in the western part of the country - appetizers, such as "arnavut Giguere" (a dish of fried liver), and at the seaside - Dolma with mussels and the fish on the grill. Individual attention desserts - they usually add fruit, cookies, nuts and soaked with honey.

Popular Turkish cuisine:

"Kebab" (a kind of barbecue);
"Patlitzhan kizarmazy" (aubergine caviar);
"Hyunter-begendi" (lamb with eggplant in a milk sauce);
"Zeytinyaly" (a dish of stewed tomatoes, green beans and onions);
"Tavuk-shehriye-chorbasy" (soup with chicken and noodles);
"Mussel-Tava" (fried mussels).

Where to try the national cuisine?

In Ankara to try Turkish cuisine can be "Tevfic Kis Pide and Kebap" (specialty of the house is a barbecue in Turkish with eggplant) or "Kalbur" (specialty places - fish and seafood) in Istanbul - in the "Aloran" ( the most popular dishes in this restaurant is worth a try lentil soup, kebabs, grilled fish, "test" - meat, baked in a clay pot) or "Duvares" (institution will please fans of kebabs and all kinds of seafood) in Marmaris - in "Hasis Café" (be sure to order the chicken and a variety of pies parmo) in Alanya - in the "Ottoman House" (an institution renowned for the fact that it offers pleasing old-Turkish cuisine).
Cooking classes in Turkey

If you wish, you can go to Istanbul culinary workshop where master classes on Ottoman and Turkish cuisine (classes designed for 3 or 6 hours, and start with a visit to the Spice Market). The Istanbul Cooking School (Beyoglu) wishing to learn to cook like old Ottoman cuisine and homemade dishes.

Connoisseurs of local cuisine worth a closer look and cooking classes Delicious Istanbul: with the chef they visit the grocery market and purchase the necessary products and then proceed to the preparation of the main dish, dessert and a few snacks (to be used in the classical Ottoman and Turkish recipes).

If you are interested in gastronomic festivals, come to Turkey during the Festival of strawberries (Bartin, June) or Food Festival "Arcelik Gastro Istanbul" (Istanbul, May).