Lokale in İzmir

Modern Turkish art in the restored 1906 French Consulate

Sea-view art house pairing European painting with Anatolian carpets

Hand-pounded dibek Turkish coffee, three generations deep

İzmir's söğüş benchmark since 1975, by Hisar Mosque

City painting-and-sculpture museum inside the Kültür Sanat Fabrikası

İzmir köfte institution since 1965

Sand-brewed Turkish coffee inside the 1740s caravanserai

Kemeraltı's reference kumru, sourced ingredient by ingredient

The kumru the Karşıyaka set grew up on

Kemeraltı's kelle söğüş master since 1975

İzmir's classic patisserie and boyoz, since 1957

Turkey's landmark Sunday slow-food producers' market

1907 stone elevator and terrace over the Gulf of İzmir

İzmir's sesame gevrek, a local point of pride