Waterfront in Çeşme

On the water's edge of antique Erythrai, three generations of family balıkçı in the peninsula's quiet north

Pozitif's Aegean outpost in Aya Yorgi cove, a thousand-cover beach with citrus gardens, a music programme that earns the room, June through September

The 1975 Dalyan harbour fish house that defines what a Çeşme balık restoranı should taste like

Wood-fire day fish and herb meze with your feet near the sand at the Çark Beach bay

Italian-leaning Mediterranean kitchen on the cape, pasta, wood-fired pizza and Aegean fish in a room engineered for long sea-view dinners

Since 1993, the fishing-harbour family room that defined Port Alaçatı before the marina arrived around it

The original Şifne address of the Kabak fish dynasty, the quiet one, where the locals still go

Ilıca Hotel's open-deck Aegean room overlooking the thermal bay, the resort coast's most assured kitchen

Fish and Aegean meze on the marina edge, named after the Chios village whose flavours quietly cross the strait

Sertan's small seafood room on the Yıldızburnu cape, water-edge tables, sharp kitchen, prices that still make sense by Çeşme standards

The Yılmaz family's Çiftlikköy seafront since 2009, the quietest Çeşme fish table looking across to Sakız