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Eating Bodrum – Maçakizi

May05

Restaurant: Maçakizi

Location: Göltürkbükü, Narçiçeği Sokak, 48400 Göltürkbükü Bodrum/Bodrum/Muğla, Türkiye

Date: June 24, 2023

Cuisine: Modern Turkish

Rating: Hotel restaurant, but good

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Macakizi is another top rated hotel resteraunt. We picked it because of the Turkish inspired modernist menu — I can have international anywhere.
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Gorgeous view. The party below at the bar was really hoping, including the pounding EDM.
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The menu. Unfortunately again I can’t do the tasting menu because it’s a whole table sort of thing.
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Wine of the night.
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Macakizi culinary garden salad. tomato, fennel, squash, fresh herbs.
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Cheese pizza-like bread.
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Sea bass Crudo. Compressed melon, buckwheat, yuzu vinaigrette, radish sprouts. very nice light acidic salty sea bass crudo. The cubed melon leant some nice texture and a hint of sweetness.
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Calamarata Pasta Cacio e Peppe with Blue Crab Meat. Crushed black peppercorns, parmesan, butter. Interesting combo which was effective. I might have liked the emulsion of the sauce a touch thicker, but the pasta was perfectly al dente and the pepper butter paired perfectly with the crab.

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Summer Tomato Risotto. Stracciatella, basil butter. Very nice “tomato sauce” flavored rissoto. Proper mancurata and starchy emulsion on the rice.
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Fire roasted sea bass. Wild greens, miso & smoked aubergine broth.
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Aged day boat Grouper. Morel mushroom, roasted chicken jus. The broth was a touch thin, so it didn’t cling to the firm meat like I might have liked. But overall pretty good.
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The dessert menu.
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Pavlova / Strawberry Compte / Buffalo Milk Yogurt Ice Cream / Yogurt Foam. The best of the 3 desserts and a quite lovely mix of sugary merignue and fruit.
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Creme Brulee / White Chocolate & Walnut Cake. Sort of halfway between a pastry and creme brulee, but very tasty.
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Pistachio & Dark Chocolate Bar / Bodrum Clementine Sorbet. The weakest of the 3 desserts, but still very nice. Good mix of soft and crunchy texture with the dark chocolate, pistachio, and orange tones very effective together.
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Overall, a great place. Atmosphere was lovely and the food was in the top 3 or so meals we’ve had in Turkey so far. One of us rated it their favorite, the next their second favorite. I think the desserts were the best we’ve had for sure. Apps and pastas were a bit stronger than the fish mains.

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For more Turkish dining reviews click here.

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  2. Eating Bodrum – Blue
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By: agavin
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Tagged as: Eating Bodrum, Eating Türkiye, Maçakizi, Turkish cusine

Eating Bodrum – Sofra

May03

Restaurant: Sofra

Location: Mandarin Oriental. Gölköy Mahallesi, 314 Sokak No.10, 48483 Muğla, Türkiye

Date: June 24-25, 2023

Cuisine: Modern Turkish

Rating: Hotel restaurant, but good

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Sofra is the Mararin Oriental Bodrum breakfast buffet — it’s pretty epic!
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The view.
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Breads.
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More breads.
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Pastries — they love pastries.
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Bready pastries.
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Donuts!
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Pide.
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Honeycomb.
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Zoom!
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Jams. Turks love sugar too.
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Not sure what these spices go on.
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Cheeses.
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Butters, etc.
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Meats.
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Quesadilla-like things.
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They are made here on the fly.
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Fried filled things.
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Fruits.
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Nuts.
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Milks.
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Cereal.
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Olives. They actually have few mezze here — which is an odd ommision.
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Salads.
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Greens.
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Cured fish.
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Lemon & lime.
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dumplings!
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They weren’t that great.
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Vegetarian dumplings.
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Miso soup.
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Omelet fillings.
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Haloumi cheese.
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Veggies.
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Snausages.
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Mushrooms.
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Different Snausages.
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Potatoes.
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Coffee.
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Gluten free bread – sad.
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Supposed ketogenic GF pastries — but they actually use date syrup and maple syrup so they are fully sugared.
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Juices.
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Yogurts.
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Scrambled eggs.
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Omelet.
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Turkish Eggs!
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Pancakes.

Pretty awesome buffet breakfast.

For more Turkish dining reviews click here.

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By: agavin
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Tagged as: Eating Bodrum, Eating Türkiye, Sofra, Turkish cusine

Eating Bodrum – Kitchen Bodrum

Apr30

Restaurant: Kitchen Bodrum

Location: Dirmil, Balyek Cd. No 5A, 48400 Bodrum/Muğla, Türkiye. +90 252 311 31 35

Date: June 23, 2023

Cuisine: Modern Turkish

Rating: Great. One of the best meals of the trip (1 star)

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Kitchen Bodrum is located in The Edition hotel.
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The wine cellar.
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As usual, the inside is empty.
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Later the patio was full.
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The view doesn’t suck.
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I like this grape.
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Great bread and awesome soft parsley butter.
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Other type of bread.
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Hummus, Wild mushroom, crispy onion, organic paprika butter, poppy seeds.
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Black Mussel, Rice with Mussel, Goat Cheese. Delicious, particularly the cheese sauce (the white stuff). This is a play on the Turkish street food (stuffef mussels).
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Goat Cheese Manti. Carameliaed Pear Sauce, Green Apple. These were incredible. Great al dente fresh paste texture and sweet brown butter type sauce.
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Salmon Confit, Sorrel, Potato, Lemon Cream. My wife loved this.
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Lamb Shank, Porcini Mushroom Orzo, Lamb Jus. Melt in your mouth lamb. The demi-glace in the orzo was very addictive.
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White Chocolate Yogurt Mousse, Raspberry Sorbet, Cherry Sauce. This was the best of the desserts — really nice.
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Kazandibi Ice Cream, Caramelized Nuts, Cinnamon. Oddball dulce de leche-like sauce underneath.
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Baklava Ice Cream, Crispy Phyllo Dough, Pistachio. I didn’t adore this. The ice creams were super hard and dense (Turkish style). Just a real Baklava with vanilla or white ice cream would have been tastier.
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Kitchen Bodrum was arguably the best kitchen so far this trip. Really great tasting dishes. Service and atmosphere were great as well.

For more Turkish dining reviews click here.

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By: agavin
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Tagged as: Eating Bodrum, Eating Türkiye, Kitchen Bodrum, Turkish cusine

Eating Bodrum – Blue

Apr28

Restaurant: Blue

Location: Gölköy Mahallesi, 314 Sokak No.10, 48483 Muğla, Türkiye

Date: June 23, 2023

Cuisine: Modern Turkish

Rating: Hotel restaurant — expensive — but tasty

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Beachside “cafe” at The Mandarin Oriental Bodrum.
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The menu.
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The beach.
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Lahmacun. Minced Beef with Fresh Tomatoes & Green Pepper. Crispy thin crust (probably lavash) with a great flavor. Really nice.
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Grilled Seabass Sandwich. Tomato, rocket, red onion, fresh herbs, ttartare sauce, ciabatta bread.
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Zoom.
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Doner plate. French fries, griilled tomatoes & pepper, Sumac Onion. Good, and certainly the best doner I’ve had yet, but I sorta like Gyro better — it’s meatier and has the yogurt. This needs yogurt.
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Condiments for the fries.

Gorgeous beachside cafe with a big menu and excellent execution. The prices however are otherworldly, particularly for Turkey. Mezze are 4x what they were at Gio Rooftop and that’s also a “snazy” hotel restaurant.

For more Turkish dining reviews click here.

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By: agavin
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Tagged as: Blue, Bodrum, Eating Bodrum, Eating Türkiye, Turkish cusine
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