Dishes you should try in Bayburt: Bayburt Tatlı Çorba (sweet soup), Bayburt Lor Dolması (curd-cheese dolma), Bayburt Süt Böreği (milk börek) and Bayburt Ketesi. This guide also covers the local products to buy and what Bayburt is famous for.
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A traditional soup with a registered geographical indication.
A dolma made with lor (curd cheese), with a registered geographical indication.
A börek with a registered geographical indication.
Kete (flaky pastry) with a registered geographical indication.
A soup with a registered geographical indication.
Finely minced lamb is kneaded with bulgur and spices and then boiled to make ehmedek köftesi, the best-known local dish of Bayburt. It is served with garlic yoghurt.
Prepared with dried meat, wheat and yoghurt, centrüm soup is one of the distinctive flavours of Bayburt cuisine. It is an essential dish of the winter months.
Prepared by wrapping fresh lor cheese in vine leaves and boiling them. Served with garlic yoghurt, lor dolması is one of Bayburt's distinctive flavours.
Finely minced lamb is kneaded with bulgur and spices and then boiled to make ehmedek köftesi, Bayburt's best-known local dish. It is also widely eaten in Aydıntepe.
Prepared by wrapping fresh lor cheese in vine leaves and boiling them. It is served with garlic yoghurt.
Prepared by cooking small pieces cut from hand-rolled dough in a yoghurt sauce. It is the traditional soup of the winter months.
Finely minced lamb is kneaded with bulgur and spices and then boiled to make ehmedek köftesi. It is also widely eaten in Demirözü.
Prepared with dried meat, wheat and yoghurt, Centrüm Çorbası is an essential dish of the winter months.
Pieces of dough filled with minced meat or potato and boiled, hingel is one of the traditional flavours of Bayburt cuisine. It is served with garlic yoghurt.
Held every year in the third week of July.
Bayburt's principal folk dance.
The koşma and epic poems of Bayburtlu Zihni.
Bayburt is known for 5 local dishes, above all Bayburt Tatlı Çorba (sweet soup), Bayburt Lor Dolması (curd-cheese dolma), Bayburt Süt Böreği (milk börek) and Bayburt Ketesi. A traditional soup with a registered geographical indication.
Bayburt is known for Bayburt Tatlı Çorba (sweet soup), Aydıntepe Şeker Fasulyesi (Aydıntepe sugar beans) and Dede Korkut Festival. Its best-known sights include Bayburt Castle and Bayburt Grand Mosque.
Local products and souvenirs to buy in Bayburt include Aydıntepe Şeker Fasulyesi (Aydıntepe sugar beans), Bayburt Balı (Bayburt honey), Bayburt Ehramı (Bayburt ehram) and Bayburt Taşı (Bayburt stone).