Kirazli Trip Overview
* Taste 10 of Ephesus’s top culinary treats on this private food tour.
* Your guide will walk you through a carefully curated itinerary of the best must-taste foods, including turkish coffee, durum, and baklava, among others.
* This private tour means undivided attention from your guide and plenty of chance to ask questions.
* Learn about Turkish culinary traditions through guided commentary All food tastings included Private tour for just you.
Additional Info
Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Kirazli, Turkey
Trip Category: Shore Excursions >> Ports of Call Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Kirazli, Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey
* Taste 10 of Ephesus’s top culinary treats on this private food tour.
* Your guide will walk you through a carefully curated itinerary of the best must-taste foods, including turkish coffee, durum, and baklava, among others.
* This private tour means undivided attention from your guide and plenty of chance to ask questions.
* Learn about Turkish culinary traditions through guided commentary All food tastings included Private tour for just you.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Kusadasi, Kusadasi, Turkish Aegean Coast
09:00 – 09:30 am ─ Our staff will come to your hotel or Kusadasi Port and to get to the van. After 30 minutes driving you will be drive to a traditional village restaurant for ample Turkish Breakfast.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Kirazli, Kirazli, Turkish Aegean Coast
Gather an assortment of Turkish breakfast items, including traditional cheeses, buffalo cream, hazelnut paste, honey, olives, dried beef pastrami, and enjoy it all with traditional Turkish tea & menemen at a local tea house. Listen to your guide’s entertaining & interesting stories about culture and daily life in Turkey while wondering if this could be your favorite breakfast ever.
Simit , One of the simple pleasures of Turkish cuisine is a ring-shaped bread covered by sesame seeds. Simit can be found easily everywhere in Turkey, and most commonly sold on the streets, displayed in small covered carts or small stands, and sometimes simply carried by a walking vendor with simit piled high on his head. The simit, looks like a plain bread roll, but is a favorite breakfast accompaniment, usually enjoyed with some cheese and turkish traditional drink Ayran. Ayran , This delicious drink made from yoghurt diluted with water and then salted and served cold, is very much enjoyed by Turks and is the perfect accompaniment to most meals, especially kebab or spicy Turkish foods.
Gozleme is known as the Turkish pancake, gozleme is a simple Turkish food, however it is often listed among the specialties at certain small eating spots. A very thin sheet of dough, similar to a crepe, is baked on a curved sheet of metal and then filled with cheese, potato, spinach, or ground meat, and is always served fresh.
Cig köfte , This fantastically simple and healthy food is enjoyed in the streets all over Istanbul. Meaning ‘raw meatball’ the most common varieties now are made without meat, and are a raw bulgur meatball ‘cooked’ in spices. Cig kofte are generally served wrapped in a lettuce leaf and sprinkled with fresh lemon juice.
Turnip Juice , A sour, sometimes hot, crimson-coloured drink prepared by boiling turnips and carrots in water, and adding vinegar. Originating in Southern Anatolia, it can relieve an upset stomach, helps the body to cope with heat, and is also one of the more preferred accompaniments of some spicy Turkish food like kebab, cigkofte and raki.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Sirince, Sirince, Izmir Province, Turkish Aegean Coast
On the way to next gourmet stop, your guide will give you information about area, some historical ruins, olive oil producer, Regional Vegetable and Fruit fields.
We stop in at a generations-old Lokum (Turkish Delight) shop and see how the popular sweet is made.
Then you will continue about half an hour to the previous christian village of Sirince. The village listed on UNESCO is old with stone houses and stony streets.
It became latest doomsday hotspot for believers of Mayan calendar that predicted world would end on December 21 2012. Sip on freshly brewed Turkish Coffee on sand while enjoying locally-made Baklava. Baklava originates from the Gaziantep region in Turkey, famous for it’s pistachios, and is traditionally baked in a wood-fired oven. However, many varieties of the delicious filo-pastry with nuts and covered in syrup now exist.
You will walk down the streets to meet villagers selling their hand made souvenirs. Sirince is famous for its Wine Houses, that you will visit and you could taste different wines ex. from pomegranate. You will be admired by the special architecture of houses, village atmosphereand taste of the best wine in Turkey!.
Vinegar, honey, soaps, and traditional sweeteners called molasses made from a variety of fruits. Pomegranate Juice is a tasty vinegar substitute made from pomegranate juice.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Kusadasi, Kusadasi, Turkish Aegean Coast
Finally, finish your day with the cool, refreshing flavours of the best Turkish dondurma (ice-cream) in Kuşadası.
We’ll make more than 10 different stops during our visit with a variety of samples at each – enough to fill your belly to the brim with all the amazing flavours that make up Turkish cuisine!
15:00/16:00 ─ When the Food tour ends, you will be transferred to the hotel / port.
The end of our services.
Duration: 2 hours