Tekirdağ

Ozcanlar Restaurant
Hüseyin Pehlivan Cad. 5
+90 282 261 29 76
A portion, which is consisted of 10 meat-balls and hot souce: 7-8 TL
on the street descending to the Archaeology Museum

Özcanlar is one of the favourite restaurants specialized in Tekirdağ köftesi.

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As Tekirdağ is a coastal city, it is possible round-the-year to taste the fresh fish. Fish restaurants are mainly scattered around the shoreline promenade. For seafood, you may try Yelken Kulüp on the west end of shoreline promenade, tel +90 282 261 44 66 or İlhan Restaurant next to Yelken Kulüp, tel +90 282 261 15 07. Some fish restaurants doesn’t serve alcoholic beverages and state their position by locating big alkolsüz “alcohol-free” in Turkish signs above their entrances. It is almost certain that the fish restaurants without such a sign serves alcoholic drinks.

It is also easy to find restaurants offering “national” fast-food like kebab and döner. However, food in the cheap döner restauraunts may be low-quality, but if you are more interested in getting your stomach full cheaply some döner and tomato slices inside a half-bread sandwich costs 0.50-1.00 YTL rather than your appetite, they may be worth a visit.

There are also a few American-style fast food restaurans offering pizzas and hamburgers too. Don’t expect to find Mc or Burger King at least in downtown. The ones you will see are local brands.

Although traditional food in this part of Turkey is mainly dependent on vegetables with little or no meat added, they can be only found inside the households. If you are a vegetarian, you may try pizzerias all of them has vegetarian pizzas on their menues.

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desserts

It seems local desserts are of Balkan Southeastern Europe origin, as many towns and cities in western Turkey which are predominantly inhabited by descedants of people who immigrated from Balkans to Turkey during 19th and early 20th century take pride in being their “real” origin. Two most noteworthy are höşmerim, also called peynir helvası, which is made of cereals with some cheese dissolved and mixed in it best to eat with some ice-cream added on top and Hayrabolu tatlısı also called Kemalpaşa tatlısı in some other places which is soft, cookie-like dough rested in syrup.

The national Turkish desserts are readily available in any dessert shop.

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