Mediterranean in Gümüşlük

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

All-day Gümüşlük operation, small hotel, kitchen-led seafood, a wine list the cove was missing.

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

Tolgar Mireli's veg-led Aegean kitchen dissolving into a Gümüşlük hillside garden

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table