9 Useful Turkey Travel Tips: What to Know Before Traveling To Turkey

Turkish cuisine is vegetarian-friendly

Although Turkish cuisine is known for being meat-heavy, most local restaurants carry a wide variety of vegetarian options. Tradesmen’s restaurants (esnaf lokantasi) offer zeytinyagli dishes, which are vegetables made with olive oil. All fish and kebab restaurants have meat-free mezes on their menu that include yogurt, herbs, hummus and eggplant salad.