Orient Restaurant

One of Goreme’s best eating options, the Orient has an attractive terrace and a stylish dining room, both are extremely comfortable and provide the perfect setting in which to sample outstanding meat dishes. Try the marble steak, which is theatrically served on a sizzling marble slab and is wonderfully tender, or the perfectly cooked rack of lamb. Though vegetarians won’t find much joy on the mains menu, they’ll be happy with the plethora of vegetarian meze on offer. Those on a budget may want to sample the fixed menu, which offers four courses for a bargain basement €8.50.

Most of Goreme’s pensions provide good, cheap meals and serve wine and beer; you’ll often eat as well in them as in the restaurants around town. If you’re after belly fuel and don’t really care about the quality, there’s a swathe of cheapish restaurants along Muze Cadessi opposite the otogar.