Dishes you should try in Gemlik: Gemlik Zeytinyağlı Enginar (artichokes in olive oil), Balık Buğulama (steamed fish), Pideli Köfte (meatballs on flatbread) and Gemlik Table Olives. This guide also covers the local products to buy and what Gemlik is famous for.
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Prepared by cooking fresh artichokes in Gemlik olive oil, this dish is served with lemon and dill. It is where the cuisines of the Aegean and Marmara meet.
Prepared by steaming fresh fish from the Sea of Marmara with vegetables. It is the best-known flavour of Gemlik's seafood tradition.
Prepared by arranging grilled meatballs on pide bread and serving them with a buttered tomato sauce. It is one of the classic flavours of Bursa cuisine.
Table olives with a distinctive flavour grown in Gemlik; Gemlik is the district where the most olives are produced.
These dishes are known throughout Bursa province; see the provincial food guide for details.
Developed by İskender Efendi in 1867, this is döner served on pide with butter, tomato sauce and yoghurt, registered as Bursa döner kebabı.
Lightly spiced, grilled meatballs with a registered geographical indication.
Registered meatballs served on pide with butter and yoghurt.
A confection with a registered geographical indication.
A syrupy dessert with a registered geographical indication.
A registered Bursa pide with a minced-meat filling.
The Gemlik Olive Festival, held every year in November, celebrates the olive harvest. During the festival, olive-picking competitions, regional food stands and concerts are organised.
Gemlik has been an important port town since the Ottoman period. Maritime culture, fishing traditions and shipyard activity are an inseparable part of the district's identity.
Gemlik is known for 4 local dishes, above all Gemlik Zeytinyağlı Enginar (artichokes in olive oil), Balık Buğulama (steamed fish), Pideli Köfte (meatballs on flatbread) and Gemlik Table Olives. Prepared by cooking fresh artichokes in Gemlik olive oil, this dish is served with lemon and dill. It is where the cuisines of the Aegean and Marmara meet.
Gemlik is known for Gemlik Zeytinyağlı Enginar (artichokes in olive oil), Gemlik Horse and Olive Festival. Its best-known sights include Samanlı Mountains and Gemlik Olive Grove Park.
Local products and souvenirs to buy in Gemlik include Gemlik Horse and Gemlik Olive.