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There are loads of great Fethiye restaurants, bars & pubs – but everyone will have their own opinions as to which are actually THE best Fethiye bars and restaurants.

So, this is not a definitive guide of where to eat and drink in Fethiye – or even which places have the best Turkish food in Fethiye.

Wooden tables and chairs on gravel ground shaded by overhead vines with the sun breaking through.
Dining in dappled shade at Cin Bal in Kayaköy

Like we said, you will form your own opinions

This is just the definitive guide to where we like to eat and drink in (and around) Fethiye. And we haven’t been everywhere, yet…but we’re working on it!

So, once you’ve worked your way through each of our Fethiye must sees, here’s a few ideas of where to eat in the Fethiye area.

Click on the links below to get further details about each individual place to eat or drink in Fethiye…

Fethiye Restaurants & Bars: City Centre

Fethiye restaurants, bars and other types of eatery are to be found throughout different neighbourhoods so we’ve divided them up as best we can.

Karagözler

Karagözler is the coast road (and upper side streets) that runs towards the Fethiye Peninsula.

As well as eateries, many of Fethiye’s hotels and pensions are located here, too.

Starting from the ancient Telmessos Theatre and heading towards the peninsula, we have:

Views of Fethiye & the marina from Camino Hostel & Pub. Blue sky forms the backdrop.
Fabulous views from El Camino
  • El Camino Hostel & Pub: High up on Fethiye’s Karagözler 1 with fab harbour and marina views and a great atmosphere. (Open spring to autumn.)
  • Girida Port: See our Fethiye Fish Restaurants section below for link to article and more information. Situated on Ece Saray Marina. (Open all year.)
  • Paşa Büfe: No airs and graces here. This is in the heart of the boat yard and is where the boat builders come to eat. Great köfte ekmek. (Open all year.)

Paspatur

Paspatur is Fethiye’s old town.

  • Deep Blue Bar: Deep Blue Bar is on Hamam Sokak (aka Fethiye Bar Street) in Paspatur, Fethiye’s Old Town. Our second home in our younger days. Great music if you like rock, blues etc. Regular live music. Speciality coffees also available. (Open all year.)
  • Meğri Restaurant, Fethiye: An institution amongst Fethiye old town restaurants. Strangely, we haven’t yet written about this very popular place with its large outside seating area.

Çarşı Caddesi & Around

  • BüyükEv Pub & Kitchen: A burst of sunshine with a young vibe on 96 Sokak. Range of beers and great burgers amongst other dishes.
  • King’s Garden Restaurant: Beneath the Fethiye rock tombs with beautiful views over Fethiye bay. Decent food and they offer a pick up and drop off service. (Open all year.)
  • Köfteci İmadettin: A Fethiye legend, we discovered…except we’d never heard of it. A good, no nonsense köfte ekmek – and great if you’re on a budget. (Open all year.)
  • Mozaik Bahçe Restaurant: It’s a must! Mozaik Bahçe is tucked away on a side street between the fish market and the PTT. (Open March-Nov.)
  • Paşa Kebap: An old Fethiye stalwart. Traditional Turkish kebabs and pide at reasonable prices. (Open all year. Closed on Mondays in winter.)
Diners eat at tables outside Paşa Kebap Restaurant in Paspatur.
It’s lovely sitting under the trees outside Paşa Kebap

Dispanser

This is the area of pedestrianised streets behind Beşkaza Meydanı – Fethiye town square. Coffee shops galore!

  • Paşa Fırını: Cafe bar, restaurant, patisserie, breakfast spot. A pleasant stop off when shopping in town. (Open all year.)

Otogar Area

The otogar is Fethiye’s intercity bus station. The main road around here is home to numerous eateries such as lokantas and kebab and burger places frequented by students.

A table with traditional Turkish dishes. Salad, stews, spinach and bulgur pilaf.
Every meal is a feast at a good lokanta – Seçkin is no exception
Mocha Coffee with decorative patterns in the froth. A sweet is wrapped at the side of the cup.
A decent coffee at Kahve Dünyası

Fethiye Bars & Restaurants: Along The Harbour

The Fethiye bars and restaurants here are listed in order as they appear along the marina; starting from the Karagözler in Fethiye and heading outwards along the harbour and further towards Çalış along the seafront.

In Turkish, the harbour promenade is known as the kordon.

The outside area of Nefis Pide Kordon, shaded by trees and wooden roof terrace.
There’s no big sign to tell you where you are at Nefis Pide Kordon
  • Nefis Pide Kordon: Great prices, especially for harbourside dining. Lovely pide and lahmacun as well as a selection of other dishes. (Open all year.)
  • Cafe Geniş: A popular meeting and waiting place for those on the boat from Letoonia. (Open all year.)
  • Address Restaurant: Along with other Fethiye restaurants covering this stretch of the harbour, Address is constantly busy whatever the time of year. There’s a happy buzz around Address with the locals of Fethiye playing tavla (backgammon) and drinking çay (Turkish tea), Turkish coffee or beer. Decent food, too. (Open all year.)
  • Iksirci Tezcan: Next to the blue culture centre. The masters of the tost. We love sitting here with a mixed tost, washed down with freshly pressed, mixed fruit juice. Mixed orange and pomegranate juice is a favourite. Super cheap. (Open all year.)
  • Cafe Park Teras: Beautiful views over Fethiye. Lift access up to the terrace and difficult to leave once you’re up there. (Open all year: Closed on Mondays in summer. Open Friday – Sunday in winter.)
  • Mezgit Cafe: Views out across the bay whilst enjoying a street food seafood snack. (Open all year – closed on Mondays.)
  • Fethiye Street Food Stands: On the canal path on the way to the Tuesday market area. A series of Turkish street food vendors in colourful retro vans. Check them out. (Open all year – later opening in summer months.)
  • Fethiye Market: As well as for our fruit and veg shopping, we also come to Fethiye Market to eat gözleme and turşu. (Food available all year)
  • Hello Büfe: A Fethiye institution. Feed the fish and the seagulls while drinking a çay or a beer. Always busy. (Open all year.)
  • Boğaziçi Restaurant: A very popular Fethiye restaurant. (Open all year.)
  • Çarıklı Et Restaurant: Steaks and meat dishes a speciality – Çarıklı has its own livestock and butchers. Other meals served, too. (Open all year.)
  • Mancero Kitchen: If it’s a big slab of quality steak you’re after, this could be your place. Mediterranean cuisine also served. (Open all year.)
  • Denizatı Restaurant: If you’re walking to Çalış from Fethiye, this is your last stop before Çalış. Decent food and prices for the location. They do a tasty, leisurely seafood meze. A very pleasant breeze in summer! (Open all year.)
A lit up entrance to a restaurant. Çarıklı Et is written on the wall outside.
An inviting Çarıklı Et Restaurant in Fethiye

Çalış Bars & Restaurants

We know some of these places are not, strictly speaking, Çalış…

But for ease of categorising them, they’re in the Çalış section as they’re all in the same general area around Yerguzlar Caddesi and Barış Manço Bulvarı.

Barış Manço Bulvarı

Barış Manço Bulvarı is the main road that runs away from the main entrance to Çalış Beach. Starting from the beach end of the road, we have:

  • Günışık: Big, meaty kebabs and homemade, fat chips. Great food all round. (Summer only.)
  • Charcoal Palace – Mangal Saray: A Scottish-Turkish family joint serving up great Turkish, British and international offerings. Famous for their Turkish mixed grill and British fish ‘n’ chips. (Open all year – limited days in winter.)
  • Mehtap Et Mangal: A selection of Turkish soups, kebabs, pide, casseroles; they’ve got a varied menu and reasonably priced. (Open all year.)
  • Meri Bar: The (in)famous Meri Bar. Just a great bar in general. (Open all year. Just off Barış Manço Bulvarı.)
  • Mojo Italian Gusto: One for the lovers of a Naples-style pizza! (Open year round. Closed Mondays.)
A bar with pizza oven. A row of wooden bar seats lines the tiled bar.
Great Naples-style pizzas at Mojo

Yerguzlar Caddesi

Yerguzlar is the road that runs from the courthouse along to the junction with Barış Manço Bulvarı, passing the Çalış Sunday market en route.

A now vibrant street with lots of places to eat and drink.

Starting from the courthouse end of the street, we have:

The exterior of Kanatçı Mert BBQ cafe. An orange sign around the rood of the terrace has the name on it and flowers are on a post to mark the entrance.
A bright orange sign lets you know you’re at the right place for Kanatçı Mert
  • Kanatçı Mert BBQ: This place is actually just off Yerguzlar. If you love juicy barbecued chicken wings and köfte, follow the road opposite the courthouse, past the back of the big Migros supermarket and take a left. Great value. (Open all year.)
  • Yeşil Asma Yaprağı Ev Yemekleri: A great lokanta serving up traditional home cooked Turkish dishes. Great value. (Open all year – closed on Sundays.)
  • Can Çekti: Serving up traditional dishes from the Gaziantep Province. Check out the beyran soup. (Open all year.)
  • Lokum Kokoreç & Döner: Our go-to for the famous Turkish street food of kokoreç. Also serving stuffed mussels, sucuk and köfte portions. (Open all year.) These guys now also have Lokum Döner, nextdoor-but-one to the kokoreç joint. The clue’s in the name – they’re serving up top quality döner kebab and also Iskender kebab.
  • Cafe Pazar: A popular post Sunday market stop off for many. (Open all year.)
  • Baba Fırın: Serving various breads, pastries, cakes and chocolates, this is also a cafe and coffee shop. Now a branch in Göcek, too, serving burgers, pastas and breakfasts. (Open all year.)
A close up of a half bread at Lokum Kokoreç near Çalış Market.
We love the Lokum Kokoreç half breads

Çalış Beach & Koca Çalış – Restaurants & Bars

When you’re thinking of where to eat in Fethiye, Çalış Beach has international and Turkish cuisine on offer.

Starting from the top (Fethiye) end of the beach and working our way down to Koca Çalış, some of the places we like are:

A restaurant at night. The sign reads, Motif Restaurant.
Motif Restaurant serves up a good selection of Turkish dishes
  • Yörük Çadır: Known to us as ‘the tents.’ If you fancy some traditional Turkish music (& usually Turkish folk dancing) then this place has live saz music every night. Get there early on a Saturday night. A few traditional Turkish dishes available on their menu. (Open all year.)
  • Roof Bar: New for the 2025 season, you don’t want to miss the views from up here!
  • Motif Restaurant: The place to visit if you’re looking for quality Turkish cuisine in a seaside setting. (Summer only.)
  • Çalış Beach Restaurant: If you can’t live without your curry, then this place on Calış seafront is a great Indian restaurant in Fethiye. (Open all year – Indian meals served Fri & Sat night in winter.)
  • EY’s Bistro Bar: A happy atmosphere attracting a mixed crowd. Varied menu and occasional live music. (Open all year.)
  • Pizza Calisto: Along the main stretch of Çalış Beach. We love the ginormous pizzas served here. (Open all year.)
  • Lukka Restaurant, Cafe & Bar: Just ‘Lukka’ for short. A chilled out bar at the end of Çalış Beach with good no nonsense grub, too. (Open all year.)
  • Oben Restaurant: Just opposite Lukka. Great family owned restaurant serving up homemade Turkish and Mediterranean dishes as well as some international favourites. (Open summer only)
  • Zentara Beach & Kitchen: Famous for their Turkish breakfast. (Open all year.)
A cobbled promenade shaded by trees to the left and vertical sign with Oben written on it in green letters.
Oben Restaurant is just opposite to Lukka

Hisarönü & Ovacık – Bars & Restaurants

This is going to be a short list as we don’t frequent Hisarönü or Ovacık too often.

Our knowledge is admittedly scant but these are the places we go to if we make it up there for our annual summer Hisarönü night out.

  • Abrahkebabrah: Blog post to come. How can you not want to have a drink in bar with a fab name like that? They were open one winter when we were freezing while waiting for a dolmuş. Lovely fire in winter! (Open all year.)
  • Hotel Leytur: At the top end of Ovacık. Not eaten here yet but a very friendly bar. Open to non residents. (Open summer only)
  • Oldies Head Rock Bar: One of the few places in Hisarönü that is open all year – and it’s a great little bar, too.
The outside of a bar. Oldies Head Bar is written outside in orange letters.
Great little bar that’s open all year

Ölüdeniz Bars & Restaurants

And another short one. We find ourselves in Ölüdeniz a lot over summer but it’s usually to meet friends rather than for eating and drinking.

We’re including Faralya and Kabak in this section, too.

Ölüdeniz Restaurants & Bars

The places we had in this section have completely changed. We’ll be adding to this section throughout 2026 after a few trips over to Ölüdeniz, recently.

Faralya & Kabak

A wooden table for two, overlooking the Mediterranean below
A table with a view at Olive Garden

Kayaköy – Places To Eat & Drink

These days, Kayaköy is changing all the time with new places to eat popping up regularly.

There are still some of the famous stalwarts, however.

Outside Bülent'in Yeri in Kayaköy. Plant pots line the wall.
Bülent’in Yeri in Kayaköy
  • Bülent’in Yeri: Bülent is always smiling! He’s an institution as his place has been open in Kayaköy for years. Enjoy a drink or a gözleme and homemade chips while waiting for the dolmuş back to Fethiye. (Open all year.)
  • Cin Bal: Just the best! Kendin pişir. Kendin ye! Barbecue your own food under the shade of vines or sit inside in colder weather for the Cin Bal winter experience. (Open all year.)
  • Izela Restaurant: Cool and relaxing. Izela serves top quality breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Open summer only.)
  • Yalçın Kabap Salonu: Whether it’s for Turkish village breakfast or to barbecue your own food, Yalçın’s a peaceful location. (Open all year.)

Üzümlü Restaurants & Bars (& Beyond)

So what do we mean with the ‘& Beyond’ part of our Üzümlü Restaurants & Bars?

Well, the area is just so spread out but we’re including the Nif/Arpacık area in this section, too, and onwards to Kırkpınar.

The entrance to Kırkpınar Restaurant up in the hills.
Kırkpınar Restaurant is up in the mountains
  • Kırkpınar Restaurant: Our blog post title for this place is ‘good mountain village grub.’ And that’s exactly what it is; right up there in the mountains on the road to Denizli. Eating here is a special experience. (Open all year.)

Fethiye Fish Restaurants

Various fish at Fethiye Fish Market. There's prawns, sea bream, sea bass, anchovies and more.
Choose your fish at the fish market
  • Fethiye Fish Market Restaurants: Choose a restaurant, go to a stall to choose your fish and the restaurant will cook it for you for a small fee. An eating experience. (Open all year.)
  • Girida Port: If seafood is your thing and you fancy a change from the fish market, this is no second best. A must-try for fish and seafood fans. Girida Port is now located on Fethiye marina. (Open all year.)

There are lots of seafood restaurants to choose from in Fethiye.

Vegetarian Restaurants, Fethiye

There are not really any out-and-out specialist vegetarian restaurants in Fethiye.

Maybe that will change at some point…but non-meat eaters need not worry anyway.

Almost all good restaurants in Fethiye will have more than enough options for vegetarians.

Our main advice would be that you should not overly-worry about asking for a restaurant menu as a vegetarian.

Just head for the fridges and check out which meze dishes you fancy.

If you know this region, you’ll know there are many places missing from this list.

We aim to keep it as up-to-date as possible and if we try somewhere new and enjoy it, we’ll be sure to add it to this page.

As we said above, it’s our personal list, not a complete Fethiye directory.

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