Black Sea Coast
This lovingly restored Ottoman house is like a joyously jumbled museum, displaying such an endless selection of ancient copperware, swords, old rugs etc…
Must-see restaurants in Black Sea Coast
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Black Sea Coast
Above the co-owned family fishmonger, the 'Ocean Fish House' is quite possibly the best fish restaurant on the Black Sea coast (for flavour not for decor)…
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Black Sea Coast
With half a car chassis over the door, this spacious, contemporary bistro overlooks the Hopa waterfront and has a wide-ranging iPad menu of cafe food…
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Trabzon
Enthusiastic locals don't believe you've really been to Trabzon till you've eaten Akçaabat köfte (local meat patties) on Cemilusta's jam-packed meydan…
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Black Sea Coast
This delightful log-cabin restaurant cooks its truly local spread of mountain specialities to order, including kaydebak (using seven types of local greens…
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Black Sea Coast
Derin finds the sweet spot between casual bustle and brasserie-style comfort, with wooden-panelled columns and leaded windows giving semi-classical twists…
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Trabzon
Take the stairway down beside the Aya Sofya garden gate to find this casually fashion-conscious cafe, popular with a young-professional crowd. It has…
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Black Sea Coast
Olive is Ordu's top waterside spot, whether you're sipping a macchiato, snacking on fast food or drooling over a New York-style dry-aged steak. The…
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Trabzon
This special restaurant serves French-inspired lunches (beef Bourguignon, cassoulet, ratatouille), adding Italian and Ottoman recipes after 6pm. The…
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Black Sea Coast
In a restored (well, rebuilt) traditionally styled house among several older buildings, Çınarbey is a favourite for barbecues and regional foods including…
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Black Sea Coast
Above the lapping waves, dine on the catch of the day – typically small Black Sea fish like mezgit, lightly fried in corn 'breadcrumbs'. There's no…
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Black Sea Coast
Pumping high-decebel music downstairs, but contrastingly sedate up top, Culina is the in spot for Giresun's upwardly mobile 20-somethings. Sip an espresso…
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Black Sea Coast
If you are staying in Perşembe, just cross the footbridge from the town's hotel to find this unexpectedly professional restaurant. It's tucked behind a…
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Black Sea Coast
This excellent yet inexpensive place for fresh seafood, including karides güvec (prawn stew) and fish sandwiches, is a gleaming white contrast to the old…
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Black Sea Coast
Amid roses and yew hedges at the top of the cable car, this spacious, all-window cafe overlooks the Amisos tumuli and a wide, partially tree-obscured…
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Black Sea Coast
Stylishly youthful, this bayfront restaurant and 'gourmet cafe' has a casually upmarket lilt, serving a wide range of Turkish fare alongside Mexican steak…
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Trabzon
Occupying one of the meydan's biggest and most attractive stone buildings, this relaxed international restaurant offers much more than just the chain's…
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Trabzon
Spilling out into an ivy-walled 'secret' garden, this relaxed cafe-restaurant adjoins the merchandising shop and museum of Trabzonspor, the idolised local…
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Black Sea Coast
Unwind inexpensively at the waterside nibbling a freshly grilled fish sandwich (₺10) or various other snacks on this open-sided cafe, raised just above…
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Black Sea Coast
This place is hard to beat for really genuine Sinop-style home cooking (manti, dolmas, local breakfasts), though the hushed, whitewashed interior fails to…
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Black Sea Coast
The open-fronted fishmonger downstairs is a good indication of the fresh fare you'll eat at this 1st-floor seafood restaurant. Just point to what you want…
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Black Sea Coast
Serving quality fresh fish (canlı balık) since 1945, 'Uncle Mustafa's Place' has a distinctively characterful pebble-and-timber 'chalet' facade which…
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Black Sea Coast
Easily missed as it's upstairs with no sign, this excellent ocakbaşı grill house serves assorted meaty morsels on two wooden balconies set with cushioned…
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Trabzon
Good for inexpensive local snack meals like lahana dolma (pencil-thin stuffed vine leaves) or kaygana (eggy pancake), this little courtyard is an oasis of…
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Black Sea Coast
In business since 1966, Huzur is big, bright and unpretentious but it delivers top-notch meat dishes, prizewinning pide and plenty more besides from a…
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Trabzon
Creating a loveable old-cottage feel, this welcoming cafe-restaurant is a great place to sample a daily changing menu of wholesome and hearty local dishes…
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Black Sea Coast
Unremarkable but handily located, this relaxed, archetypal neighbourhood kebapçı also serves lahmacun (Middle-Eastern pizza).
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Black Sea Coast
This popular, open-sided grill house and lokanta has al fresco tables and a good range of reliable if standard Turkish fare including kebaps, soups (₺8)…
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Pamuk Kardeşler Balık Restaurant
Black Sea Coast
A trinity of seafood restaurants line the sporting marina, around 500m west of the cable-car station in Batıpark. This licensed one is our favourite for…
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Black Sea Coast
Saray is widely reckoned the top choice of a trio of fish restaurants that all have seating that stretches onto platforms over the waters of the harbour…
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Black Sea Coast
Sofra serves reliably good pide and kebaps but the main attraction is the historic stone building with its bare stone walls and heavy cast-iron lamps.
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Black Sea Coast
This small rustic holiday centre is the best dining and sleeping spot between Yusufeli and Barhal, with a riverside cafe, restaurant and a pair of dining…
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Black Sea Coast
This building, shaped like a boat that's been washed onto the beach, hosts a mini fish market downstairs and a seafood restaurant above. It's not the most…
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Black Sea Coast
Upstairs in a large pavilion style building, right on Büyük Liman, Mavi & Yeşil offers the local fish, imported calamari and köfte dishes in a reverberant…
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Black Sea Coast
Haydar's Place cooks crispily thin-crusted pide in a variety of styles including Karadeniz (a kind of large meat turnover) and Amasra pidesi, loaded with…
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Black Sea Coast
Bring a dictionary and a little courage to squeeze in with the locals around the single barbecue table in this utterly old-school, hole-in-the-wall grill…
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Black Sea Coast
Below the similarly named Hotel Kervansaray (but unrelated) this pleasant if fairly standard place has a range of hazır yemek (ready-to-eat food) in…
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Black Sea Coast
On the central square beside the beladiye (town hall), this popular no-frills cafeteria still churns out the usual suspects (lentil soup, bean stew, döner…
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Black Sea Coast
Named for the public garden onto which its tables spill, this friendly, well-run lokanta does reliable pide, lahmacun, kebaps and salads. It's opposite…
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Black Sea Coast
This simple family cafe is the oldest in Ayder, offers a range of local dishes and occupies a spot close to the best waterfall viewpoint, around 1km east…
