Places to eat in Datca

The most important things you should taste when you come to Datça are fish, honey and almonds. Datça's almonds are so famous that they are exported to the world. Datça's honey, on the other hand, has a wonderful taste because it is made by collecting from a thousand kinds and colorful wild flowers in nature. You should both taste and buy Datça honey.   

You can eat the best of the fish caught in Datça at the fish restaurants in Datça, accompanied by appetizers with olive oil and different seafood. In ancient times, in the books written about pharmacy in the region, it was even written that fried fish is best eaten with honey and almond sauce. You can also find snail dishes in many places in Datça.   

Apart from these, Datça also has flavors unique to its own culture and blended with Aegean cuisine. Some of them are as follows:  könger, ütmek, lokum pilaf, stuffed zucchini blossoms and of course, we recommend you to try dishes with interesting names and tastes such as olive oil, garaville, turpucu, mürdümük and celpleme.   

You can have a nice tea in the tea garden where the famous poet Can Yücel's photographs and poems are hung and the last wine he drank and the glass he used are exhibited behind a glass case.

Datça Culinarium restaurant; We recommend the Circassian ravioli, butter dulger fish and especially the Semifredo dessert.

Datça Mesudiye Ovabükü Poyraz Restaurant is delicious, but the real Laos grill is off! It is really the most successful on the Ovabuk coast. Every day you can't go a day without eating stuffed zucchini blossom and hunter's pie.

Garavilla Restaurant. Garavilla restaurant, where you can find the most delicious flavors of Aegean and Mediterranean cuisine, is located in Hotel Mavi Beyaz with a unique view. You should taste the menus prepared with Datça's local and fresh herbs.

Hüsnü'nin Yeri. Hüsnü'nin Yeri, one of the fish restaurants serving on Kumluk beach, is a special address with its location and delicious seafood. You should definitely try the appetizers and grills prepared with local olive oil.

Mocca Cafe. You can enjoy delicious pizzas and pasta in this cozy cafe serving in the historical harbor of Datça, or you can have a small dessert and coffee break after dinner.

Erkan's Place. Absolutely delicious home-cooked food.

Le Jardin de Semra. You should definitely try Le Jardin de Semra specialty salad prepared with local herbs and almonds. All the vegetables used in the dishes are grown in Ms. Semra's own organic garden.
Yesim Bar minced meat pita and çökertme kebab in Kargi bay.

Melinda Datca Ovabuku: You can find the local but most exquisite flavors of Mediterranean and Aegean cuisine at the resort's seafront restaurant. At Melinda Restaurant, they carefully prepare their menus by combining vegetables grown in their own organic gardens with seafood and meat products. There is no better address for olive oils prepared naturally by the owners, rich appetizers prepared with care, fresh salads, meat menu and especially octopus, calamari, shrimp and expertly prepared sea fish, which turn into a feast of flavor in their skillful hands...In the evening, when the day slowly turns red towards the sea, it is great to experience the pleasure of raki & fish here, accompanied by the ambiance created by small small waves.

Göl Evi Cafe is also an interesting and beautiful place with both the sea access in front of it and the breakfast place overlooking the lake and the sea in Taşlık.

Don't forget to buy roasted almonds, almond milk concentrate and black mulberry syrup from Dor datca's shop in the center and have lemonade and almond cookies. If you eat your almond cookie with Tekin Usta's ice cream, it will be wonderful.

Winegarden knidos is a wonderful wine house with a beautiful garden.


If you ask anyone in Palamutbükü, they will recommend the sea bass bagel, but we couldn't forget the yogurt. You should definitely try it. 

For accommodation suggestions, you can check our Datça Hotels page.