Best Views in Çeşme

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

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

Eğlenhoca cooperative dairy — small-batch sepet keçi, deri tulum and oily-piquant kopanisti from peninsula goats

Nihal Hanım's garden in Saip village — forty house jams, mountain-foraged herbs, breakfast cooked by the village women

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

Stone terrace at the gate of Erythrai antique city — the Ildırı sunset bench with takımadalar in frame