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Turkish Cuisine and Best Restaurants

You can find the best restaurants that serve Turkish food and world cuisine in Istanbul. Here you can find all about Turkish cuisine and Istanbul restaurants. You will remember the delicious meals that you had here, even after years.

Istanbul feeds millions of people everyday. There are hundreds of choices from local restaurants with casserole meals, traditional meyhanes with meze and rakı to high-end dining. And you should choose not only the food but the amazing views too…

If your idea of Turkish dining is eating slices of greasy meat in a loaf of bread, hold tight! There will be a sudden movement in the eating section of your brain after reading my pages about restaurants. These pages will definitely change your ideas about Turkish food and Istanbul restaurants scenery forever.

Istanbul is shining bright with stylish restaurants!...

Turkish cuisine is at the forefront of the international cuisine scene. Istanbul is a hot culinary destination for successful chefs from Italia, the U.K., Sweden, the U.S.A., Japan and China. And Turkish chefs are really doing an excellent job. You can sample their works of art at high-end and chic restaurants.

Enough with the gourmet traveling… You don’t have to keep up with progressive cuisine movement in a city which has such a tremendous traditional cuisine of course. You can have very delicious meals without hurting your pocket, in the neighborhoods of Beyoglu, Nişantaşı, Karaköy, Sultanahmet, Eminönü or in fishermen’s villages along the Bosphorus shores and so on…

The question is: “Where to Dine?”

In most cases, you will be better off sharing traditional food with locals; that is the key. These places will allow you to taste the delicacies that no-name local chefs create in best restaurants serving local cuisine, tucked in back streets.

To see what Turkish cuisine really is you should eat at a “lokanta” (local restaurant). These eateries serve the best home-style food. Casseroles and stews are the types of hard-to-prepare dishes that you will not come across in most of the touristic places.

Try to get out of Sultanahmet area once in a while. The food is usually better outside that area. Of course there are a bunch of nice places there too; I have listed them for you.You will find all necessary info on these pages;

  • Turkish Cuisine
  • Turkish Cuisine Restaurants
  • “Meyhane” Experience
  • Kebap Restaurants
  • Seafood Restaurants
  • Street Food
  • World Cuisine
  • Pastry and sweets shops
  • Turkish Cuisine Dictionary
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