Arrived back Friday after another lovely, laid-back week.

For anyone who is off to Turunc this summer - thought you may be interested in an update on the restaurants.

There seem to be even more this year! We mainly tried to eat as simply as possible this holiday, we mostly avoided some
of the bigger well-used restaurants - even though they are still great!

We tried to use small, family run restaurants - some we have never tried before.One of our best meals was in the small restaurant next door to Pasha's which we had just thought of a pancake house before.
You have to book 4 hours before - and the choice was between chicken, lamb or meatball casserole.
There were 4 of us and we mostly chose different casseroles. The meal was absolutely delicious, it started with a couple of small unusual meze with fresh bread, then we had our main course. It was followed by fresh fruit. We also had a bottle of wine and a few beers, and paid
about 87 TL for four. Which with the good exchange rate at the moment works out about £9 each!

We also ate at Cinar in the road opposite the Mosque. We asked the waitress to recommend typical Turkish dishes, we had kebabs in delicous sauces and Shepherds lamb which was in a lovely spicy sauce. I think this meal was about the same price as the restaurant above.

We also ate in the Minem which fronts the beach, next to Korfez, and again they cooked us some different casseroles, we were also given a plate of fresh herbs - some of which we hadn't had before. We were then given a pastry and apricot desert on the house (home cooked).

Another lovely meal was King prawns at Musti's, which we asked Fevzi about at the beginning of the week, and got a text message when he got them.

We did go to two of our old favourites - we had Sea Bass at Cardaks, cooked to perfection, apparently it wasn't farmed as some of the other Sea Bass is, you could really tell the difference.
We finished our holiday at Bondjuk's where we had slow cooked oven lamb which you have to order 24 hours before. We started with the famous(in Turunc anyway) Bondjuk salad, prepared with a secret recipe, and had all the usual trimmings that you get with the lamb.

As you have probably guessed one of our main pleasures is eating, and this was one of our best holidays for good food! So its back to the diet till the next holiday!