Don’t we all love a bit of good news? Well, the good news is that lokanta, Yeşil Asma Yaprağı Ev Yemekleri ve Meze (to give it its full Sunday name) has a new branch!
Yeşil Asma Yaprağı – From Dispanser To Yerguzlar
People who know Fethiye well – or longtime readers of this blog – may remember this scene.
The photo above is from early 2015 when Yeşil Asma Yaprağı was a busy lokanta in the pedestrianised Dispanser area of Fethiye town centre.
We ate there often.
It was great value, delicious home cooking with a varied choice of traditional Turkish recipes that changed daily.
And that delicious home cooking was served up with a smile.
And it was always busy!
And then, one day, it wasn’t there anymore (unbeknownst to us, they’ve since opened a branch on 502 Sokak, just around the corner).
Onwards To Yerguzlar Caddesi
But fast forward to December 2024 and we were walking along Yerguzlar Caddesi, one day.
Already home to lots of great places to eat (we love the Gaziantep beyran soup at Can Çekti), we noticed stainless steel counters and piles of new floor tiles outside one of the larger empty units.
When you see big stainless steel units with glass displays, that’s usually a giveaway that a lokanta – a place that serves up traditional Turkish home cooking – is in the offing.
And then, a couple of weeks later, the sign went up!
Yeşil Asma Yaprağı Ev Yemekleri ve Meze (Green Vine Leaf Home Cooking and Meze).
Yeşil Asma Yaprağı is up and running on Yerguzlar Caddesi!
And we were straight back there as soon as they opened the doors – well, give or take a few days.
Bigger premises, a more spacious set up – and still as busy as we’d always known it to be.
A whiteboard on the posts at the entrance tells you what the daily offerings are.
Or, you can do as we do and just wander inside to see for yourself.
The genius of lokantas like Yeşil Asma Yaprağı is that when you’re hungry and you need a quick meal, the food is there for you, already cooked.
It’s fast food – but it’s home cooked. Wholesome!
You walk in, take your tray and cutlery and slide it along the shelf, perusing the dishes behind the glass counter.
The waiting staff behind the counter smile and tell you what’s on offer and you can just point at what you want to eat.
All dished up, you slide your tray along the shelf to the waiting cashier and pay up.
And then you can go and sit down and enjoy your meal.
On our first visit, we plumped for patatesli sulu köfte yemeği (a meatball and potato stew), kereviz yemeği (a celeriac stew) and kıymalı arpa şehriye pilavı (orzo pilaf with minced beef).
Mixed Plate
What’s also great about Yeşil Asma Yaprağı is that, if you’re fancying a few of the dishes on offer but you don’t want a full portion of each, the staff will do you a mixed plate.
Now, please remember this is a lokanta. No nonsense food spooned onto a waiting plate.
We’re not talking Michelin-starred presentation, here. Not a pair of tweezers in sight!
Large ladles and slotted spoons are the name of the game.
On this plate, we have elma dilim patates (potato wedges), tas kebab (beef stew) and an absolutely delicious ıspanak graten (spinach gratin).
An eclectic mix!
But that’s the beauty of lokantas. You can mix and match whatever you like.
And how do they work out what to charge you for these mixed plates?
After all, you’re not getting full portions of each choice.
That’s what we were thinking as we slid our tray along the shelf towards the cashier.
And then the cashier leaned over, took our plate from the tray…and placed it onto a set of scales!
If you do a custom mix n match mixed plate, you’re charged for it by weight.
But don’t worry. As we said, Yeşil Asma Yaprağı is very reasonably priced.
There’s no menu here. But the daily list outside will tell you what’s on offer and what it’s going to cost you.
Welcome to Yerguzlar Caddesi, Yeşil Asma Yaprağı!
Yeşil Asma Yaprağı – Useful Information
- Yeşil Asma Yaprağı is on Yerguzlar Caddesi, close to the Çalış Sunday Market (see map below).
- It is open 6 days a week (closed on Sundays) year round.
- As well as daily, home cooked Turkish dishes, they also have a selection of meze plates available and offer catering services.
- They don’t update very often but you can follow them on Facebook.
- For more ideas on where to eat and drink around the area, check out our ever-evolving page of Fethiye bars and restaurants.
Lynne Taylor
Saturday 8th of February 2025
I come to Calis 2 or 3 times every year. I have found the eating places on Yerguzlar getting more interesting every year.
Turkey's For Life
Saturday 8th of February 2025
Hi Lynne, thanks a lot for your comment. Yeah, lots of choice along there, now. We're round that area a lot and Yeşil Asma is perfect for us for when we need a quick bite to eat that's also really tasty. :)