Advantages: Great food, very friendly staff, great service! Disadvantages: Absolutely none
Tulip Garden
Located on the Atatürk blvd. in Alanya, south Turkey, Tulip Garden is a neat café restaurant serving meals from 9:00 till 2:00. Now probably you wonder what's a Tulip Garden doing in Turkey, well, that's because the owner is a Dutch Turk, very nice guy who speaks fluent Dutch and English and who's come to Alanya some 7 years ago to start up his own business.
Being smart, he focused on the Dutch tourists and their needs, which are:
1. Dutch food: frikandel, krokant (both kind of minced meat which is rather spicy, dressed and fried), basmati rice, bami, nasi (ok, all these are indian dishes the Dutch eat often, but don't ask me what those are, I had it explained a number of times but always forgot), filled toasts and of course beers.
2. TV screen: The Dutch ppl love to watch sports, particularly football, so ...
Advantages: Friendly and helpful owners / Clean / Good Food / Swimming pools / Garden / Free pick-up. Disadvantages: Can't think of any.
Everything said in the description is true and more so. The owners (Jenny and Eugene) are invariably friendly and helpful. All the staff are the same. The hotel is spotlessly clean. The food is excellent (and as vegetarians we certainly appreciate this). The pool is immense - there are smaller pools for smaller people. The garden is lovely. History, culture or clubbing are a short bus (bus stop across the road) or taxi ride.
The village is a ten minute walk away. There are several bars and restaurants. A supermarket. Clothes and shoe shops. This is a working village where real people really live.
It must be good:- This is our tenth visit. Others have been even more often.
Due to the present financial crisis (May 2009) there are still rooms available throughout the year. ...
Advantages: A book of sumptuous recipes many of which are used in Rhodes' own restaurants. Disadvantages: Recipes are generally for more people than you find in the average family.
I?ve always had a soft spot for Gary Rhodes right from his first series for the BBC back in 1994. No, it wasn?t the spiky hair (which I hated) or the puppyish charm (which grated) it was the fact that it did seem that the man could actually cook and his love of the food shone through in everything that he prepared.
It didn?t even worry me that he?s thin when no chef has the right to be thin. He?s a cook; it?s what his life is about, whether he?s appearing on television, running his restaurants and brasseries or writing books. They are all part of a seamless whole. Go into the kitchens of his brasseries and you could well find that the chefs are working from photocopied pages from my latest find: his ?New British Classics?.
First published in 1999 ?New British Classics? is not just a cook book; it?s a work of scholarship too ...
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Product details
Long Name
Diafani Garden Restaurant
Type
Greek
Continent
Europe
Country
Greece
City
Rhodes
Address
3 Plateia Arionos
Telephone
22410 26 053
Manufacturer's product description
Several locals recommended this family-operated taverna, which cooks up fine traditional Greek fare at bargain prices. You won't find better authentic Greek home cooking than this anywhere in Rhodes, especially at lunch. Sitting under the spreading walnut tree in the vine-shaded courtyard, we enjoyed the splendid papoutsaki, braised eggplant slices layered with chopped meat and a thick, cheesy béchamel sauce, delicately flavored with nutmeg and coriander.
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