Birkaç meyhane nerede gerçek Türkler var ama turist yok yoklamak istiyorum.
Bu gibi meyhaneler nerede?

I want to visit some restaurants where there are genuine Turks, not tourists.
Where are there restaurants like this?

Corrections please :-S

I also think "meyhane" is a better description of where I actually want to go than "restoran". Perhaps my English translation should have used "cafe" or "pub".

The purpose of such a visit would be to meet 'ordinary' Turks (not those involved in tourism) to experience the culture and language - not to sit quietly in a corner and eat good food. Meeting people is better done over drinks than food

Maybe it helps.. The names of places in Türkiye (as they're written in turkish)

Kahvehane (traditional cafe, there're all men, they play card games, tavla, smoke and kill the time talking)
Çay bahçesi (you drink tea in the open air )
Cafe/Kafe
Bar
Disko/disco
Club
Pub
Meyhane (bar/pub where you can eat and drink, usually rakı and meze, there's traditional turkish music etc. The ones in Çiçek Pasajı in Beyoğlu are so nice)
Gazino (it can be anything from the large coffee house to night club, but it's a bit outdated word.)
Pavyon (nowadays they don't have a very nice reputation)
Restoran/Lokanta (lokanta is the turkish word for restaurent, but people use restoran because it sounds more western and therefore stylish :o )
Kebapçı
Dönerci
Kokoreççi and the derivatives

I personally don't see loan words in Turkish as foreign words. I see them as Turkish words. I think any word that has become a part of our language is Turkish, no matter its origin. I would say lokanta is Turkish.

Similarly 'televizyon, telefon, doktor, ambulans' etc. are all Turkish. These are Turkish words from other origins. Their origin is not Turkish but the words are.

We have given the foreign words a new sound, a new space to exist and grow and a new soul. Many words that have been taken from foreign languages have a wider usage in Turkish than they have in their original language. We have constructive suffixes in our language to build new words from existing words. These suffixes apply also to almost all load words. To give you an example, we have, "lokanta > lokantacı > lokantacılık" and "futbol > futbolcu > futbolculuk".

If 'lokanta' is not Turkish, are you suggesting that 'lokantacılık' is not Turkish either? I would like to hear if a native Italian can tell me the meaning of "lokantacılık' without checking the Turkish dictionary.

For instance the Turkish word 'pas' is from English origin (to pass). We use it in the same meaning as they do in English. We say "Beckham, Lampard'a pas verdi".

to pass: Sports. "To transfer a ball or puck to a teammate." http://www.answers.com/pass

But 'pas' is a Turkish word. As soon as we took it from another language it became independent. Loan words have an independent life within Turkish. Therefore we can say "kız bana pas verdi" which would be impossible to guess for an English speaker.

Even though we took some nouns from foreign languages we have taken them for inspiration. Not just to copy them as they are.

Many words in English are from other origins such as Latin and French. Would you say these kind of words are not English?

For instance is the word "student" English? Is "school" English? Is "pencil" English? Are you suggesting that "student, school, pencil" and thousands of more words that native English speakers use, are not English, or are you suggesting that these English words are from other origins?

Sorry to add my two peneth worth but aren't European Lanugauges, French, English, Spanish, Italian derived from Latin and that is where the similarities occur with volcabulary? Sorry this is not to answer the original but perhaps to answer some of the thread below.

Other man who are playing cards, having a chat or drinking a tea would freeze and would stare at your girlfirend like they were seeing a girl for the first time. I think eveybody would stop doing what they are doing and would be focused on you.

Of course this is only so in the traditional places.

I don't think so. People are just curious about strangers. Especially a tourist in a local kahve would be a big surprise if it is not a touristic town.

In a big city or in a touristic town nobody would care much. On the other hand, an ordinary traditional town or village would be very different.

I think what would happen is that, they would all think that you have lost your way and would try to help you. First they would offer you a seat. Then some tea and maybe water, afterwards some cigarettes of course. I think if you would talk a few words Turkish they would be so surprised that even people outside the cafe would come to see you.