Alara Restaurant Konyaaltı — Restaurant in Muratpaşa

Alara Restaurant is an elegant hideaway eatery located inside Ataturk Park and on the banks of the Mediterranean Sea. The glittering lights of both Lara and Konyaalti can be seen here while enjoying an unforgettable dining experience under the stars and moonlight.

We timed our arrival here when the sun was setting over the horizon, which made the ambiance breathtaking to the point we forgot to capture a picture of that post-card worthy sunset.

We started our dinner with the house specialty salad, the Alara Salad which consisted of fresh lettuce, tomatoes,  cucumbers with bits of parsley and mint, topped with slices of avocado and shredded cheese. The dressing was tangy and savory. The salad was served with fresh dinner rolls and olives.

For an appetizer, we ordered the grilled calamari. The calamari rings were tender and perfectly grilled and seasoned.

For our entrees, we ordered the whole Sea Bass and the Grilled Sea Bass Skewer.

My wife enjoyed the freshly grilled Sea Bass was seasoned with only salt and pepper and served with a wedge of lemon which she squeezed to bring out the full flavor of the fish. Stems of Arugula, half of a baked potato, a ring of red onion and slices of tomatoes accompanied the fish and made for a beautiful presentation.

This was my first time to have ordered the Sea Bass on a skewer and I'm glad I did. The fish cuts were separated with slices of pepper which added to the already flavorful fish.

I grew up accustomed to ending a Seafood meal with sweets, and to keep up with that tradition, I ordered us the Pumpkin Dessert but I asked for it to be topped with Kaymak because I have a weakness for this traditional Turkish cream.

This dessert was served as ordered along with two cups of their aromatic Turkish Tea.

We enjoyed every dish immensely and the service by Alara's staff made our dining experience very enjoyable and memorable.

I highly recommend this restaurant and encourage you to make...

Very bad experience at second time.When I go to the restaurant the staff don't speak English and with very cold face to me (That Old guy near the door)even don't want helping for anything.I think if restaurant with not cheap price than you can have some staff can speak English or with welcome face.For tourist I don't recommend you to this place.Because the restaurant staff look like only like Turkey people.Maybe you are old guy but is your job to help people in restaurant(I'm not interested with kind of people not good education)I don't care you are old or yang but your face make me Disgusting. You need understand your leavl is working here. I also will write in my country traveling app let people knew this restaurant staff is very rude and let them not visit here) Don't worry many people check in there Maybe view is ok but staff(that old one near door) Very bad .You should ashamed because you don't...

This restaurant has probably the best view, however I found the food there a bit meh. They now serve breakfast on Sundays and specifically went back for that. You can get a good table if you arrive at 10am-ish. Apparently it’s not possible to reserve a table. The breakfast was a bit underwhelming- few types a cheese, lots of walnuts, veggies mainly like a garnish. Yoghurt, potato salad & aubergine as sour meze; Nutella, honey & jam. They served exactly 6 olives - 3 green & 3 black (I thought it was amusing, I mean I haven’t seen such an economical presentation of olives in Turkey!). The French fries weren’t homemade, just frozen and the egg came as scrambled egg with sausage (they didn’t ask anything about how I like my eggs- personally I dislike sausage, so I didn’t touch that). The breakfast with tea was 80TL. Go for the view, not...