A few months ago it was announced the cigarettes and alcohol were to be increased in price massively. I was a bit scared as I use both of them extensively.
Bottom line (in EURO) nothing changed much (although EUR itself has suffered, but that is another matter)
Cigarettes are still under EUR 2, I do not say buying them is an investment, but buying 300 packages also protects a little bit against inflation.
Also Alcohol was supposed to be much, much more expensive, but yesterday I buy a few liter bottles of Jameson for TRY 880 (not really more expensive (or even cheaper) than eg Hungary).
I am not saying restaurants are not healthy at all, but over the last few months I have seen that prices have increased quite a bit.
For a normal Turkish Restaurant I count TRY 900 (For me and my wife Soup, Bread, Orange Juice, main dish and tea afterwards), when we came it was less then TRY 500 easily
The more expensive restaurants (essentially the same menu) is TRY 1500 (including tips), but quality is good (and so is the service (in Turkey I am impressed so far)
Nothing to complain about restaurants, still reasonably priced, but MUCH higher then in the recent past
Of course no interest to you, but we try to go at least 3 or 4 times per week, we will go in an hour or so, nice part of life.
