Good Eats: Foodie Adventures Inwards Bodrum, Turkey

Of course, when ane visits Turkey, you lot tin conception to swallow well.

I idea I would portion some of the exceptional dishes in addition to places I visited during my trip to Bodrum, a beautiful resort expanse located on the southwest peninsula along the Aegean Sea.

Avlu Bistro & Bar

On the kickoff nighttime inwards Bodrum afterwards the 3rd Annual Karaova Grape Harvest Festival had kicked off alongside traditional Aegean dances, nosotros ate dinner at a lovely restored, 160-year-old rock delineate of piece of job solid called Avlu Bistro & Bar. The eating seat has 2 levels within in addition to enough of outdoor tables thus you lot tin bask the pleasant summertime weather.

Here, nosotros started off alongside several mezzes including smoked salmon bruschetta, veal carpaccio, Turkish olives, cheese, etc. Every dish was delicious, but to me, the existent highlight was the principal course of teaching – the çökertme kebabı. This traditional Bodrum dish features tender steak (bonfile) served atop fried shoestring potatoes inwards a yogurt in addition to tomato plant sauce. OMG! As a meat lover, I was inwards heaven!

Somehow during my previous trips to Bodrum, I had missed out on having çökertme kebabı. Never again! If you lot beloved steak, thus you lot must endeavor this amazing dish when you lot see the Bodrum area.

For dessert, nosotros had a warm chocolate soufflé cake in addition to a panna cotta alongside berries. After dinner, nosotros walked along Bodrum’s famous Barlar Sokak in addition to headed dorsum to our hotel to relax.

Hotel Marma Beach

In the mornings, I enjoyed a total Turkish breakfast buffet at Hotel Marma Beach, a small, boutique hotel located on Ortakent Beach. I had a second-floor sleeping room hither alongside a small-scale terrace where I enjoyed sitting out inwards the belatedly afternoons alongside a drinking glass of Turkish wine. H5N1 traditional Turkish breakfast frequently features several kinds of cheeses, breads, olives, fresh tomatoes in addition to cucumbers, boiled eggs in addition to teas. Simple in addition to delicious!

Köy Kahvaltısı 

Of course, I can’t forget the amazing köy kahvaltısı (village breakfast) that I enjoyed alongside my novel Turkish friends inwards the countyside at Etrim Doğa Restaurant & Köy Kahvaltısı. To read to a greater extent than close that experience, delight read this post: Enjoying a Turkish Village Breakfast Near Bodrum.

Kavurmacı Celal Usta

For lunch, nosotros ate at a small-scale delineate of piece of job solid unit of measurement eating seat inwards Mumcular called Kavurmacı Celal Usta. Often, small-scale restaurants inwards Turkey volition specialize inwards cooking in addition to serving precisely ane or 2 dishes. In this case, nosotros were interested inwards eating saç kavurma. Kavurma commonly refers to beef or lamb merely seasoned in addition to cooked inwards its ain juices in addition to fat.

Another traditional means to laid kavurma is to laid it on a metallic pan called a saç. The saç is placed over an opened upwards burn downwards in addition to the diced lamb or beef is stirred around in addition to cooked alongside a large metallic spatula until the meat releases its juices in addition to fat. Our dish was served alongside lettuce, freshly diced tomatoes in addition to bread. Of course, the quaff of selection hither is ayran – a salty, but refreshing Turkish yogurt drink. Ayran too goes good a actually spicy meal. Trust me.

Göltürkbükü Mahallesi

Unfortunately or mayhap fortunately, I frequently didn’t know where I was going on this trip since I had real express wifi in addition to my encephalon was constantly working away at my lost Turkish linguistic communication skills. After leaving Mumcular, I know nosotros drove S toward the Göltürkbükü Mahallesi. I attain got since learned that nosotros stopped for afternoon tea at Hasan Restoran, a family-owned restaurant/motel located on the beach. We dined on chilled, locally-harvested grapes in addition to figs piece enjoying the seaviews inwards the afternoon sunshine. But the highlight hither was eating Saraylı Tatlısı – some other Bodrum specialty which is sparse sheets of yufka (phyllo dough) baked inwards a sugary syrup in addition to topped alongside chopped pistachios.

If you lot similar Turkish baklava, thus you lot volition beloved Saraylı Tatlısı equally well.

Whenever you lot move to Turkey, I hope that you lot volition swallow good – endure it a large metropolis similar Bodrum or Istanbul or the tiniest of Turkish villages.

Again, exceptional thank you lot to Karaova-Der, Slow Food Bodrum in addition to the Bodrum municipality for making this wonderful Turkish trip happen!