Places in Çeşme

On the water's edge of antique Erythrai, three generations of family balıkçı in the peninsula's quiet north

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

The 1975 Dalyan harbour fish house that defines what a Çeşme balık restoranı should taste like

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

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

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

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

Two hundred Turkish bottles in a pomegranate garden behind a 150-year-old house, wine boutique and kitchen under the same roof

Organic chateau-style Ovacık winery with sunset tastings over Chios

Elevated Dalyanköy fish house with a serious meze bench

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

A 1528 Ottoman caravanserai sleeping beside the castle and marina

Michelin-listed butcher-steakhouse in a historic Ilıca house

The credible Anatolian grill room of Dalyan Marina

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

Wood-fire slow food hidden in the Ovacık fields

Organic Grenache rosé and Tempranillo grown six kilometres of stone-terraced slope above the village, tasted facing Chios

Istanbul's award-winning roaster, seasonally transplanted into a stone house

Owner-run stone villa with an olive garden near Yıldızburnu Bay

Stone-walled Hacımemiş room where wine, jazz and Aegean cooking share the same evening, Ozan Musluoğlu directs the music

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

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

Since 1993, the fishing-harbour family room that defined Port Alaçatı before the marina arrived around it

The original Şifne address of the Kabak fish dynasty, the quiet one, where the locals still go

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

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

Levent and Güler Köstem's working olive farm, fourteen thousand trees, JOOP gold-medal Memecik, restaurant and three guest rooms

Sertan's small seafood room on the Yıldızburnu cape, water-edge tables, sharp kitchen, prices that still make sense by Çeşme standards

The Yılmaz family's Çiftlikköy seafront since 2009, the quietest Çeşme fish table looking across to Sakız