Waterfront in Çeşme

Pozitif's Aegean outpost in Aya Yorgi cove — a thousand-cover beach with citrus gardens, a music programme that earns the room, June through September

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

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

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

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

Polished Aya Yorgi cove daytime that turns DJ-led after dark — Tayu sushi kitchen on site, the contemporary half of the cove's beach-club pair