Καλύτερα στέκια Θαλασσινά στην Çeşme

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A small Şifne fish house on the village side — for when even Ferdi Baba feels too crowded

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

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

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

Michelin Guide-listed family osteria a few streets from the castle, serving day-boat fish and meze without the marina markup

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

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

Mordoğan iskele room facing the sea — the working-village fish counter that yacht trade hasn't reached

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

Çeşme's fish-and-meze institution since 1981

The 1975 Dalyanköy fish house locals still defend

Dalyanköy's quietly excellent harbour seafood room

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

A seaside lobster house run by a host who has held the room for years

Elevated Dalyanköy fish house with a serious meze bench