Turkey Guide
Around the Sea of Marmara
Eating
1 Balkan Piliç Saraçlar Cad 14 Price: A plateful of various dishes will cost around 12YTLPlenty of wholesome lokanta fare, not just chicken but enticing vegetable dishes and good roast lamb.
2 Edirne Lahmacun Salonu Çilingirler Cad 2 Offers a good variety of pide and grilled kebabs in a canteen environment (no alcohol) to the local bazaar traders.
3 Lalezarğ 1.5km south of town (Karaağaç road), on the Meriç River Unlicensed restaurant with beautiful views of the Meriç and its elegant, honey-coloured bridge. Food – kebabs and mezes – is substantial and reasonably priced, served in waterfront gardens. One table is located in the branches of a tree. The licensed Villa Restaurant next door is similar. Take the Karaağaç minibus from in front of the PTT, or any red city bus heading south along Saraçlar Cad.
4 London Café Saraçlar Cad 74 An unexpected find, this two-storey affair (opposite the PTT) is incongruously decorated with Wild West photographs, cowboy boots and stetsons. There's a wide range of imported alcoholic drinks and a non-Turkish menu including things like chicken schnitzel, spaghetti and burgers.
5 Yuva 1.3km south of town (Karaağaç road), between the Yeni and Meriç bridges Friendly place, with inexpensive mezes and kebabs, accompanied by rakı and (very occasionally) live music. It's one of a line of lively meyhanes (taverns) between the bridges, an area dubbed Bülbül Adasi – "nightingale island" – by the locals.