Mekane in Çeşme

Melih Teksen's twenty-five-year Alaçatı institution, transplanted to Buradan's organic vines — set menu and pairings among the Grenache rows

Chef Can Aras's wood-fired seafood room — the most ambitious new arrival the stone village has had in a decade

Ayşenur Mıhçı's farm-to-table Aegean room — the only Michelin Bib Gourmand and Green Star on the peninsula

The Kabak family's marina-side outpost where the day's catch is read off a board and the rakı arrives without asking

Chef Ahmet Horasan's lemon-tree courtyard — Gault & Millau Türkiye 2024 Best Seafood

Türkiye's first lobster restaurant — Tuğrul Erol's Çiftlikköy room since 1974 and Vedat Milor's consistent Aegean pick

The Viento courtyard where Alaçatı's stone-village finally has a Michelin-listed seafood room of record

Melih Teksen's inventive Aegean table inside Buradan vineyard

Altuğ Tezer's chef's table on the Çark Plajı pier

North Piers' fine-dining courtyard in new Alaçatı

Eleven-suite adults-only design hideaway on the Şifne shore

Tolga Kamiloğlu's contemporary Aegean kitchen on the Şifne seafront

Modernised ocakbaşı with a Nişantaşı pedigree, transplanted to the marina with mixologist-led cocktails and grilled meats by the water

The 1981 Çeşme fish house's village outpost — the old-town keeper for cold rakı and a whole grilled levrek

All-day kitchen on the yacht slips — French-leaning breakfast through midnight cocktails, run by a working chef line rather than a brand operator

Polished Aya Yorgi cove daytime that turns DJ-led after dark — Tayu sushi kitchen on site, the contemporary half of the cove's beach-club pair