Best Restaurants in Çeşme

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

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

Hacımemiş's quiet stone garden — a chef's Aegean address that has held the same Tire-sourced standard since 2010

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

Burakhan Akçe's open-air sharing room — modern Aegean small plates a careful step away from Kemalpaşa Caddesi's noise

An 1800s Hacımemiş courtyard under the olive trees — the village's most romantic stone-house dining room

A handmade Hacımemiş Aegean kitchen run by two women who wrote the modern Alaçatı home-cooking template

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

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

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

Vineyard restaurant where Foça Karası — a 2,600-year-old grape — is served alongside Cabernet from the same hillside

Meltem Güner Atalay's hillside estate — night-harvest grapes, gravity-fed cellar, 20,000 bottles by hand

A late-arriving estate with the most accomplished vineyard kitchen on the Urla route — wood oven, Aegean-Italian menu

The peninsula's youngest serious estate — Chilean winemaking lineage, pre-phylloxera Carignan, panoramic terrace kitchen

A 130-year stone-house garden in Hacımemiş where the Aegean serpme is taken seriously and the bazlama still comes off the saç

A reservation-only farm garden between Alaçatı and Ovacık where the orange-cured olives alone earn the trip

A twelve-year Alaçatı kahvaltı institution that quietly moved into the village square — herbed eggs, proper jams, no theatrics

The 1974 Uğur Mumcu counter where the Çeşme kumru is still pressed the way the family wrote it — tomato, sucuk, kaşar, no shortcuts

Roberto Fracasso's Hacımemiş courtyard — the only Alaçatı oven where the pizzaiolo is actually Italian

Hüseyin Pancar's year-round Aegean room inside Alavya — the rare hotel kitchen Istanbullular cross town for

Buse Bağlayan's farm-to-table room inside Small Luxury Hotels' only Alaçatı address — the kitchen is fed by the family's Ovacık farm

A culinary academic's Greek-Aegean fine-dining room tucked into a fifteen-room boutique near the Marina road

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

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

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

Founded 1953 by the Kadagan brothers from Yugoslavia — the peninsula's archetype of stew-pot Anatolian home cooking, still in family hands

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

Olga and Özgür's Turkish-Russian courtyard kitchen — two grandmothers' recipes met in a stone garden under pomegranate and lemon

Zeytin Konak's wood-oven pizza room set inside its own pesticide-free vegetable field — forty-five covers, dinner only, salads cut that hour

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

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

North Piers' fine-dining courtyard in new Alaçatı

Çeşme's fish-and-meze institution since 1981

The 1975 Dalyanköy fish house locals still defend

Dalyanköy's quietly excellent harbour seafood room

Tolga Kamiloğlu's contemporary Aegean kitchen on the Şifne seafront

Michelin-listed butcher-steakhouse in a historic Ilıca house

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

Melih Teksen's inventive Aegean table inside Buradan vineyard

Wood-fire slow food hidden in the Ovacık fields

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

A twenty-seat vineyard-house table of slow Ovacık cooking

Elevated Dalyanköy fish house with a serious meze bench

The credible Anatolian grill room of Dalyan Marina