# Restaurant Prices in North Cyprus: 2026 Meal Costs > From a 300 TL döner to a 1,400–1,900 TL meyhane night per person — honest 2026 restaurant price bands for North Cyprus, in lira with euro equivalents. - Canonical: https://www.kiprarent.com/en/guide/restaurant-prices-north-cyprus/ - Updated: 2026-06-13 - Language: English - Publisher: Kipra Rent A Car — https://www.kiprarent.com/ --- Eating out in North Cyprus runs from a **300 TL** (~€5.60) packaged döner to a **1,400–1,900 TL** per-person meyhane night — roughly **€26–36** (£23–31) at the June 2026 rate — with a casual restaurant meal sampling at about **€20** in between. Prices are set in lira, so for visitors paying with euro or sterling cards the bands below sit comfortably under Western European levels — and this page keeps to price levels only, with no venue rankings. ## How much does a meal cost in North Cyprus? A quick bite costs **160–300 TL** (~€3–5.60), a casual cooked meal **300–500 TL** (~€5.60–9.40), and a sit-down restaurant dinner climbs from there toward the **€20-per-person** mark, as of 2026. The bands, with their sources and dates: | Meal level | Price (TL) | ~EUR (12 Jun 2026 rate) | Basis | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Sandwich (hellim or chicken) | **160** | ~€3.00 | campus maximum, 2025/26 | | Burger | **220–260** | ~€4.10–4.90 | campus maximum, 2025/26 | | Packaged döner + chips + ayran | **300** | ~€5.60 | campus maximum, 2025/26 | | Döner plate / grilled köfte portion | **400** | ~€7.50 | campus maximum, 2025/26 | | Breakfast plate + tea | **300** | ~€5.60 | campus maximum, 2025/26 | | Cheap restaurant meal, 1 person | **~1,044** | ~€19.63 (range €7.79–30) | Kyrenia sample, 2026-05 | | Mid-range dinner, 2 people, 3 courses | **~2,660** | ~€50 (range €39–96) | Kyrenia sample, 2026-05 | | Meyhane fixed menu, per person | **1,400–1,900** | ~€26–36 | mid-2025 compilation | Euro equivalents are converted at the TRNC Central Bank rate of 12 June 2026 (~53.2 TL/EUR, ~61.7 TL/GBP). The full dataset with per-row sources is published at [/data/guides/restaurant-prices-north-cyprus.csv](/data/guides/restaurant-prices-north-cyprus.csv). ## Why is a university price list the best anchor? The most reliable food-price document in North Cyprus is an official one: Eastern Mediterranean University's price commission publishes **maximum permitted prices** for campus food outlets each term, and the September 2025 – February 2026 list is the floor under every street price in Famagusta. A campus outlet may charge at most **40 TL** for Turkish coffee, **300 TL** for a packaged döner, **400 TL** for a döner plate — so any venue in town charging near these numbers is at the cheap end of the market, and tourist-strip pricing measures itself upward from this floor. The list also gives the cleanest inflation trend available: the same commission's 2024–25 list had coffee at **25 TL** and packaged döner at **200 TL**, a **~50–60% year-on-year increase**. That trend is why every figure on this page carries a date. ## What does a meyhane night cost per person? A meyhane fixed menu — the meze-table evening that is the north's signature night out — runs **1,400–1,900 TL per person** on average, per a mid-2025 compilation: budget venues **1,100–1,400 TL**, mid-tier **1,450–1,700 TL**, premium **1,680–1,900 TL**. Fixed-menu scope varies between venues — confirm whether drinks are included when booking. Two cautions on the figures: they are 2025-stamped, and given the ~50–60% food-inflation trend above, treat the band as a floor for summer 2026 rather than a quote. Even so, at roughly **€26–36 per head** at the June 2026 rate, a full meyhane night costs about what a single main course runs in much of Western Europe. What actually happens across that evening — the meze flow, the rakı ritual, the music nights — is its own page: the [meyhane night, decoded](/en/guide/meyhane-night-north-cyprus/). How drinks price outside the fixed menu is in the [alcohol prices guide](/en/guide/alcohol-prices-north-cyprus/), and the dishes themselves are mapped in [what to eat in North Cyprus](/en/guide/what-to-eat-north-cyprus/). ## Where do prices climb? Prices climb where the tourists are: seafront and hotel-strip venues price meaningfully above neighbourhood restaurants serving the same dishes, as of 2026. Sampled markers of the spread: a kebab house inside Famagusta's walled city lists a menu range of about **€9–22 per person** (menu dated February 2026), while the Kyrenia-area sample puts a cheap one-person meal anywhere between **€7.79 and €30** — the same meal, priced by postcode. Coffee shows it cleanest: the campus maximum is **40 TL**, while a 2024 press survey already put the café average at **75 TL** (band 50–100 TL). The practical move for anyone staying a week is mobility — a car turns the neighbourhood restaurants of Famagusta and İskele into options alongside the hotel strip, which is the quiet money-saver. Kipra Rent A Car is a Famagusta-based local rental company with VAT and third-party insurance included in every displayed price, and for visitors staying a month or more eating like a local pairs naturally with a [long-term rental](/en/long-term-car-rental/). ## What do drinks and small items cost? Non-alcoholic basics are genuinely cheap: the 2025/26 campus maximum list caps a 0.5 L bottle of water at **20 TL** (~€0.38), a glass of tea at **30 TL** (~€0.56) and a canned soft drink at **50 TL** (~€0.94) — street venues price upward from there, but the order of magnitude holds. The exception that surprises visitors is espresso-based coffee: a cappuccino samples at about **€4.05** (Kyrenia, May 2026) — Western European pricing in an otherwise cheap drinks landscape. Order Turkish coffee or tea and you stay on the local price curve; order a flat white and you leave it. ## Is tipping expected? Tipping **5–10%** in restaurants is customary and appreciated, not obligatory, as of 2026. It is a cash habit: card terminals here do not usually carry a tip prompt, so the tip is lira notes left on the table. Cards themselves are standard in town restaurants — the wider cash-versus-card picture, including the one terminal trap worth knowing, is in the [currency and cards guide](/en/guide/currency-cash-cards-north-cyprus/). ## How eating out fits the holiday budget Eating every meal out in North Cyprus is affordable by Western European standards but no longer trivially cheap, as of 2026 — the realistic day for two ranges from **~€20** (quick bites and a casual dinner) to **€70+** (restaurant lunch plus a meyhane night). Self-catering mornings from a supermarket cut the number hard — the basket math is in the [grocery prices guide](/en/guide/grocery-prices-north-cyprus/) — and the full per-day budget across all spending lines lives in the [trip budget guide](/en/guide/north-cyprus-trip-budget/). For how the north's restaurant bill compares with the euro-priced south, [our north-vs-south holiday cost index](/en/blog/cyprus-holiday-cost-index-north-vs-south/) runs the line-by-line comparison. --- Neighbourhood restaurants beat the hotel strip — get to them on your own schedule: [book a car](https://app.kiprarent.com/en/book/cars) · WhatsApp [+90 546 996 1004](https://wa.me/905469961004) — English spoken. ## Frequently Asked Questions **How much is dinner for two in North Cyprus?** A mid-range three-course dinner for two samples at about €50 as of May 2026 (range €39–96), and a full meyhane fixed-menu night runs 1,400–1,900 TL per person — roughly €53–71 for two at the June 2026 rate — per a mid-2025 compilation. **Is eating out cheaper than in South Cyprus?** Generally yes, especially outside tourist strips — northern prices are set in lira while the south prices in euros. The gap varies by dish and venue tier; our north-vs-south holiday cost index breaks the comparison down line by line. **Do restaurants take cards?** In towns and tourist areas, card and contactless payment is standard as of 2026. Keep some lira for village cafés, market stalls and tips — card terminals here do not usually carry a tip prompt. **Is tipping expected in North Cyprus restaurants?** Tipping 5–10% is customary and appreciated, not obligatory, as of 2026. It is usually left in cash on the table rather than added to the card payment. ## Sources - EMU (DAÜ) price commission — campus maximum prices, Sep 2025–Feb 2026: https://registrar.emu.edu.tr/Documents/portal/Eylul-2025-subat-2025-isletmeler-fiyat-raporu-tr.pdf - Numbeo — Kyrenia restaurant price sample (updated 2026-05-04): https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Kyrenia-Girne-Cyprus - Karekod — North Cyprus meyhane fixed-menu compilation (mid-2025): https://www.karekod.org/blog/kibris-meyhane-fiyatlari/ - Kıbrıs Postası — café coffee price report (2024-08): https://www.kibrispostasi.com/c35-KIBRIS_HABERLERI/n530884 - Restaurant Guru — Famagusta walled-city kebab house menu range (2026-02): https://restaurantguru.com/Fa-Kebap-Cyprus --- Kipra Rent A Car — Famagusta, North Cyprus. No-deposit, no-credit-card car rental; VAT + insurance included. Rezervasyon / Booking: https://app.kiprarent.com/book/cars · WhatsApp: +90 546 996 1004