What to eat in Antalya
Mediterranean Turkey beyond the hotel buffet: pide and lahmacun, grilled fish, Antalya-style piyaz, tandır kebab, pomegranate juice and winter salep.

[ ] Try Antalya piyaz
    A white bean salad with tahini, garlic, vinegar and boiled egg — the local version, absent from the rest of Turkey. Served cold with köfte.
[ ] Eat pide
    A boat-shaped flatbread topped with mince, cheese, sucuk or egg and baked in a wood oven. It is cut into pieces and eaten by hand.
[ ] Try lahmacun
    An ultra-thin flatbread with a fine layer of mince, tomato and herbs, baked in two minutes. Rolled with parsley and lemon and eaten by hand.
[ ] Try tandır kebab
    Lamb slow-cooked in a sealed earth oven for many hours until the meat falls off the bone. Served on lavash with onion and sumac.
[ ] Eat grilled fish
    Sea bream, sea bass or small red mullet picked from the ice and grilled over coals with lemon and rocket. Fish restaurants cluster by the market and the old harbour.
[ ] Have a Turkish breakfast
    A dozen small plates: white cheese, olives, tomato, cucumber, clotted kaymak with honey, jams, eggs and endless tea. Ordered for the group.
[ ] Try hibeş and local meze
    Hibeş is an Antalya starter of tahini, cumin, lemon and garlic, bright orange with paprika. Served with bread alongside other meze.
[ ] Try saç kavurma
    Meat with pepper, tomato and onion fried on a large round saç pan in front of you. Served on the same pan over a burner.
[ ] Eat köfte
    Grilled minced meat patties with piyaz, roasted peppers and lavash. A plain dish by which a kebab house is judged.
[ ] Try zeytinyağlı dishes
    Vegetables braised in olive oil and served cold: stuffed leaves, artichokes, green beans, aubergine. An entirely plant-based section of the menu.
[ ] Eat künefe
    Stretchy unsalted cheese between layers of kadaif pastry, soaked in syrup and dusted with pistachio. Served hot straight from the pan.
[ ] Try dondurma
    A stretchy ice cream of goat milk with salep and mastic that resists melting and is cut with a knife. Vendors perform tricks with it.
[ ] Try baklava and sütlaç
    Pistachio baklava and sütlaç, a rice pudding baked until the top browns and served cold. The second is lighter and less sweet.
[ ] Drink pomegranate juice
    Freshly pressed pomegranate juice, squeezed in front of you on a hand press. The pomegranate season is autumn, when the juice is sweeter and cheaper.
[ ] Drink ayran and şalgam
    Ayran is a salted yoghurt drink for meat; şalgam is a sour-salty juice of fermented turnip with carrot, hot or mild.
[ ] Try rakı
    An anise spirit that clouds with water, sipped slowly with meze and fish. It is diluted roughly one to one with water, then iced.

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