Antalya's restaurant scene splits along a coastline. Inside the Kaleiçi walls, tavernas and stone-walled meyhanes serve Ottoman-era classics on lanes barely wide enough for two people to pass; out along Lara Caddesi and the Fener seafront, hotel dining rooms and standalone kitchens work with the sea in view and menus that swing from Aegean fish to Tokyo-style sushi. Between them, the working neighbourhoods of Muratpaşa and Konyaaltı hold the places locals actually eat on a Tuesday — kebap counters that open at breakfast, dessert parlours that stay lit until midnight, sushi rooms that opened for the Russian-speaking families now living west of the airport. This list is twelve restaurants pulled from that spread, ranked, addressed, and cited. It is aimed at the traveller who wants to eat where the cooking has a point of view rather than where the tour bus stops, and it favours kitchens that keep unusual hours, hold a specific cuisine, or occupy an address worth walking to on its own.
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1 Belforno Restaurant
25 Hesapçı SokakA Kaleiçi Italian kitchen working an eleven-hour service from the same lane as the stone hotels
From 12:00 the kitchen at Belforno on 25 Hesapçı Sokak runs an unbroken eleven-hour service, closing at 23:00 seven days a week. Skip the carbon-copy pizzerias clustered around the harbour steps; this one commits to an Italian menu on a lane that mostly trades in Turkish grills, and the commitment shows in what leaves the pass. The room shares an address with the Belmondo Suites hotel group, which explains the polish; call +90 546 908 93 07 for a table when the courtyard fills. Book it as a dinner rather than a lunch — the Kaleiçi lanes glow better after dark, and the kitchen keeps pace until closing.
- italian
Hours: Mo-Su 12:00-23:00
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2 Can Ciğer Cafe
Apt.No 1/B 1302 Sk. M.A ÖztemelA Turkish ocakbaşı grill that stays open until 02:00 for the after-work crowd
The grill at Can Ciğer fires up at 11:00 and does not cool down until 02:00, which tells you what kind of address 1/B on 1302 Sokak really is. The locals head here for liver — the name is a statement of intent — and the kitchen cooks a strictly Turkish menu on the ocakbaşı open coals. Don't bother scrolling review aggregators; the trade is neighbourhood, the room fills late, and the ledger of orders is written on paper. The house keeps a website at cancigerocakbasi.com and a phone line on +90 546 507 07 04. Come after 21:00 for the room at full volume, or at lunch for a quieter plate of the same thing.
- turkish
Hours: Mo-Su 11:00-02:00
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3 Ayar Meyhanesi
59a Hesapci Sokak, 07100A stone-walled Kaleiçi meyhane with a Mediterranean-Turkish rakı table that runs to 01:00
At 59a Hesapci Sokak in the 07100 the doors open at 11:00 and the last rakı is poured at 01:00, which is the correct rhythm for a meyhane. The kitchen cooks a Mediterranean-Turkish menu, which in this room means a long meze table before anything hot arrives. The locals prefer the meyhanes on this lane over the seafront restaurants that trade on the view, and the reason is what happens over the third small glass. The house holds a booking site at ayarmeyhanesi.com and answers the phone on +90 536 728 22 21. Order the cold plates first, let the raki catch up, and give the evening the four hours it wants.
- mediterranean
- turkish
Hours: Mo-Su 11:00-01:00
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4 Asmani Restaurant
24 Lara Cad., Akra Hotels, Antalya, 07100A dinner-only pan-Asian room inside the Akra Hotels on Lara Caddesi
Service at Asmani begins at 17:00 and runs to midnight, seven days, from an address inside the Akra Hotels at 24 Lara Cad. in the 07100. The kitchen refuses to specialise — the menu carries Chinese, Italian, Japanese, sushi, Mexican and international sections in one book — which is either an asset or a warning depending on your appetite. The locals know that hotel dining rooms in Lara are where the city eats when it wants a view and a wine list, not where it eats when it wants the best kebab. Book the terrace, not the atrium; the sea does the work the menu cannot. The house keeps a site at asmanirestaurant.com and takes bookings on +90 242 316 20 21.
- chinese
- italian
- japanese
- sushi
- mexican
- international
Hours: Mo-Su 17:00-24:00
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5 Rolik sushi Antalya
48/А Belediye Caddesi, 07070A dedicated Konyaaltı sushi room built for the Russian-speaking families now living west of the airport
At 48/А Belediye Caddesi in the 07070 the rice is warming by 12:00 and the counter closes at 21:45, a curiously specific hour that tells you the kitchen respects a service window. Rolik cooks Japanese only, which in Konyaaltı is a small act of defiance against the pide-and-kebab default. The locals head to purpose-built sushi rooms like this one rather than to the hotel-buffet nigiri that dominates Lara; the difference sits in the fish, not the marketing. The house takes orders through roliksushi.com and answers the phone on +90 543 642 07 79. Come for an early dinner — the last order lands well before the room turns over — and let the counter set the pace.
- japanese
Hours: Su-Sa 12:00-21:45
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6 Sütbeyaz
61 Tekelioglu Caddesi, Fener Mah., Antalya, 07160An all-day Fener café-brasserie serving kebab, patisserie, ice-cream and waffle from the same kitchen
The lights come on at 08:00 and stay on until 23:00, Monday through Saturday, at 61 Tekelioglu Caddesi in the 07160. Sütbeyaz refuses to pick a lane — the tags list Turkish, coffee shop, brasserie, patisserie, waffle, ice-cream, kebab and chicken in one entry — and the room is built for it, with a pastry counter that handles the morning trade and a grill that carries the evening. The locals prefer sprawling all-day rooms like this to the split coffee-house-then-restaurant model that dominates the tourist quarters; it lets you order breakfast at 11:30 and dinner at 22:30 without changing tables. The website is at sutbeyaz.com.tr and the phone is +90 242 318 16 61. Closed Sundays — plan around it.
- turkish
- coffee shop
- brasserie
- patisserie
- waffle
- ice cream
- kebab
- chicken
Hours: Mo-Sa 08:00-23:00
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7 Fener Restaurant Lara
124 Lara Caddesi, Fener Mah., Antalya, 07300A long-running Lara seafood-and-grill house serving from 10:00 to midnight
Service at 124 Lara Caddesi in the 07300 starts at 10:00 and does not stop until 00:00, which is what a fourteen-hour trading day looks like on the Fener seafront. The kitchen cooks Turkish, fish and grilled meat, in that order of priority, and the website — fener1945.com — signals the year the family attaches to the room. The locals swear by the Fener seafood houses over the imported chains further west; the fish is landed nearby and the grill is a full carbon operation. Book through +90 242 318 08 08 for the sea-facing tables and specify meat or fish when the call is answered. Come at 20:00, order two of what the room is eating, and let the last order at 23:30 pull you toward dessert.
- turkish
- fish
- et
Hours: 10:00-00:00
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8 Hatay Kebap Barış Ustanın Yeri
0242 243 10 31 Güllük CaddesiA Hatay-style kebap counter on Güllük Caddesi that opens at 09:00 for breakfast trade
By 09:00 the grill on Güllük Caddesi at the 0242 243 10 31 address is already producing, and it does not stop until 23:00 seven days a week. The kitchen cooks strictly Turkish, which at a Hatay counter means the southern-border style — long skewers, minced lamb, garlic yoghurt on the side — rather than the milder Antalya default. The locals eat kebap for breakfast in this town, which is why a 09:00 opening makes commercial sense; skip the hotel breakfast buffet the day you try this. The phone answers on +90 507 797 10 31. Order from the whole board — the ustanın yeri in the name means a named master runs the grill — and go before the office lunch fills the room at 12:30.
- turkish
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-23:00
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9 Level
12 Civelek Sokak, 07100A closed-on-Monday Kaleiçi room running a six-day service through the old town
The door at 12 Civelek Sokak in the 07100 stays shut on Monday and opens Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 to 23:00. Level runs a six-day week rather than the seven the tourist restaurants nearby chase, which is a quiet signal that the kitchen prefers rest to marginal covers. The locals know that a Monday closure inside Kaleiçi is a choice, not a limitation; the places that never close often cook like it. The house holds a booking site at levelkaleici.com and answers on +90 533 403 36 76. Plan around the Monday dark, come at either end of the service to avoid the tour-guide window from 19:00 to 21:00, and take the room at its own pace.
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10 The Smokey BBQ & Burger
112/A Barinaklar BulvarıAn American-style BBQ and burger counter working a clean 12:00-to-22:00 window
Smoke rises through the vents at 112/A Barinaklar Bulvarı from 12:00, and the last order goes down at 22:00 seven days a week. The Smokey commits fully to American BBQ and burgers rather than the hybrid grill menus you find further inland; when a room specialises this narrowly in Antalya, it is usually because the cook cares. Skip the hotel-buffet burger the day you come here; that is not the same food, and it does not pretend to be. The house keeps a site at thesmokey.net and takes calls on +90 242 999 27 57. Come at 13:30 for a quiet room or at 20:00 for the queue — either way, order the ribs and one burger between two.
- american
- burger
Hours: Mo-Su 12:00-22:00
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11 Kaleiçi Meyhanesi
14 Balıkpazarı Sokak, AntalyaA twelve-hour meyhane on the old fish-market lane serving regional and Turkish plates until midnight
At 14 Balıkpazarı Sokak the service opens at 12:00 and holds the room until 24:00, seven days a week. The kitchen cooks a regional-Turkish menu, and the lane name — Balıkpazarı, the old fish-market row — tells you what the room was built to eat. The locals prefer the meyhanes on the market lanes over the seafront terraces that trade on sunsets; the food is more honest and the raki lasts longer. There is no website in the record; the phone answers on +90 545 639 4263, and the reservation is best made in person during the afternoon lull between 15:00 and 18:00. Order the meze board, then a whole fish, then let the room decide the pace.
- regional
- turkish
Hours: Mo-Su 12:00-24:00
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12 36 Konukzade Restaurant Pansiyon
20 Hıdırlık, Antalya, TRA 24/7 restaurant-pension on the Hıdırlık edge of Kaleiçi with rooms above the dining room
The door at 20 Hıdırlık does not close — the kitchen runs 24/7, which is a rare posture in Antalya and worth taking seriously at 03:00 when nowhere else will feed you. The room sits on the Hıdırlık edge of Kaleiçi and doubles as a pansiyon, so the trade mixes overnight guests with the neighbourhood; the locals know that a 24-hour kitchen in the old town is almost always attached to lodging for exactly this reason. Skip it as a first-choice dinner room and remember it as a late-arrivals room, an early-flight room, a walked-out-of-the-club room. The house holds a website at 36konukzade.com and a phone on +90 505 625 10 87. Book direct if you want a bed above the dinner.
Hours: 24/7
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