Amble along Çalış Beach promenade and you can take your pick from a whole variety of restaurants. Motif Restaurant is one of those restaurants. And if you’re looking for some genuine Turkish cuisine, you aren’t going to go far wrong at Motif. Opened in the spring of 2019 with the aim of offering diners a …
Let’s go for a walk around the Fethiye Peninsula… Known to locals as Yarımada (Half Island) , Fethiye Peninsula is a forested promontory dotted with bays offering stunning views and services ranging from the simple to the sophisticated. It also happens to be blessed with an undulating road which circles the whole perimeter of the …
For our Fethiye news updates, I keep a little list in my notepad of anything and everything worth throwing into the articles. Regular readers will know we had a mid-March update and, with April being the month where everything – and everyone – starts to wake up, it’s all been happening and we’ve got all …
Lokum Kokoreç and Lokum Döner are places that are trying to appeal to the masses – and succeeding. Most Turks don’t need that appeal. They’re more than aware of how tasty this offal and meat is. Tempting the taste buds – that’s what Yerguzlar Caddesi is becoming an expert at. Yerguzlar Caddesi is the street …
Have you tried a broccoli frittata recipe? Most of the recipes on this blog are Turkish recipes. You know, what with us living in Turkey and everything. We do, occasionally, however, cook dishes of the non-Turkish variety. And more often than not, these dishes will not make it onto these online pages. But there are …
Eggs and spinach for breakfast, anyone? Or lunch or dinner, for that matter. If you’ve never tried this spinach and eggs recipe, we’re sure you’re going to be converts once you do make it. We go through spells where it’s on our menu more than once a week. And that’s no bad thing because this …
It always feels strange doing our monthly round up of life in Fethiye when it’s not the end of the month (we’ve done a few of these in the past and will no doubt continue to do so). But then life doesn’t work in neat 4 week blocks, does it? Any end of February round …
Bastions of Turkish cuisine: Both soup (çorba) and legumes most certainly sit comfortably with that description. And in this green lentil soup recipe, we bring the two together to make a hearty Turkish meal. Way back when, we did a post on the main types of çorba (Turkish soup) you see in the eateries of …
It’s the Turkey of days gone by at Gül Pension and Restaurant in Faralya. No airs and graces, here. A bit like Bülent’in Yeri in Kayaköy. Whilst exclusive boutique hotels and luxury villas have certainly found their way to the steep, terraced mountainsides of Faralya, village life also continues to tick along as it has …
Well, here we are. Our first Fethiye news update of 2019. And we’ve got to say, the first month of 2019 has been pretty much dominated by the weather. A few other things have happened, too, during rain gaps. And being at home a lot means we’ve had ample time to cook lots of lovely …