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Ilıca Hotel's open-deck Aegean room overlooking the thermal bay — the resort coast's most assured kitchen
Family-summer flat-sand beach east of Çeşme
Ilıca holds the long flat sand and shallow turquoise water that makes Çeşme a family-summer destination — a string of resort hotels along Boyalık Caddesi, the Ilıca Hotel Spa as the established anchor, and a daytime beach circuit that runs at a different volume than Pırlanta. The chapter accepts the rooms that earn it; the rest is family-summer infrastructure.
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Ilıca Hotel's open-deck Aegean room overlooking the thermal bay — the resort coast's most assured kitchen
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
Tolga Kamiloğlu's contemporary Aegean kitchen on the Şifne seafront
Michelin-listed butcher-steakhouse in a historic Ilıca house
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Eleven-suite adults-only design hideaway on the Şifne shore
Owner-run stone villa with an olive garden near Yıldızburnu Bay
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