Cuisine of Marmaris for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants

Marmaris is a genuine gastronomy destination for gourmands and haute cuisine admirers. The city features plenty of upscale and exotic restaurants for real connoisseurs; meanwhile prudent tourists will love cozy home cuisine restaurants and budgetary cafes. Ethnic cuisine restaurant Samdan is the most visited and most sought after eating place in the city. The restaurant is open almost 24/7. Mornings the eating house is mostly visited by aroma coffee admirers and evenings the restaurant hall gathers regular guests and gourmands wishing to try chef’s specialities. One of the main characteristic features of the Samdan restaurant is an excellent selection of delicious desserts.

The Great Corner restaurant specializes in British cuisine. It will be a great place for family visit as guests with kids are offered special menu. Though the Great Corner restaurant is one of the most popular eating houses in the city the pricing is rather affordable. The place is favorable for friends meetings or family dinners.

Those wishing to taste genuine ethnic cuisine dishes should set to the Anfi restaurant. Its spacious hall is split into two areas, one of which is equipped with comfortable tables and another one features bar counters. Apart from plenty of ethnic treats the Anfi restaurant offers its guests a rich selection of drinks and speciality cocktails. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

All way interesting and appealing is the Andy's restaurant. It offers its guests an excellent menu of grilled dishes. The restaurant presents a variety of meat delicacies on the menu. However the place will be of great interest and attraction for sea foods gourmands as well. One of the most popular and attractive budgetary eating houses is the Fruit Burst Smoothie café and bar. The house always has on the menu fresh vegetable salads, hot sandwiches and hamburgers as well as awesome desserts and cool refreshing drinks. The cost of a proper three course meal will be about 10 US dollars or less.

Exotic cuisine fans will love the Happy Brothers Chinese restaurant. Apart from traditional Chinese cuisine dishes one will find plenty of the rarest exotic delicacies on the menu. The hall decorated in keeping with oriental traditions will let the visitors fully embrace the spirit and traditions of the far country. The restaurant will be a perfect place for holding any festive event.

Marmaris cuisine is dominated by classic Turkish dishes, here you can try the most popular dishes that have long become every day food for the locals. One of the most popular vegetables in local cuisine is eggplant, more than forty different dishes are made of this vegetable here. Delicious warm salads, special vegetable kebabs and even stuffed eggplants are popular here. Walking through the local markets and gastronomic shops, you should definitely look for eggplant jam, which is considered to be a unique local speciality.

In the local cuisine, dairy products are also widely distributed, and tasty yoghurts and cheese are made here, many popular snacks are based on these products. You will find here savoury sauces with spices that can be served with meat and vegetables. Moreover, locals bake delicious cheese pies.

Significant attention in regional cooking is paid to the preparation of first dishes, hundreds of types of soups are prepared here. Rice soup with mint, which is called “Yayla” is a very unusual dish. Moreover, you can try soups with chicken and various types of fish in the restaurants of Marmaris. The main part of meat dishes is made from mutton, dishes from goat and veal are also widely spread here.

In the high-class restaurants of Marmaris, you can try more original meat delicacies, such as camel meat made according to special recipes. The most common meat dish here is still kebab, you can try it not only in restaurants, but also in the market, and even in small shopping tents, which are literally on all city streets. You can also buy traditional pita bread stuffed with fried meat and vegetables at these kiosks. During the day and evening, local restaurants serve wonderful pilaf with various types of meat and vegetables, but it is not customed here to eat pilaf in the morning.

You should better try popular regional sweets in the markets of Marmaris, where customers are offered a huge selection of fresh and dried fruits, hundreds of options of lukum, baklava and sherbet. Before buying, sellers offer to try sweets, so a walk through the market can turn into a fascinating tour with tasting. In restaurants, you can try more original sweets, such as stuffed peaches and ripe quince pudding. Coffee is considered to be the traditional drink of Turkish people. Moreover, this drink is really strong here.