Venues similar to Varka Alaçatı

Aegean meze read off both shores, served in a courtyard tucked between two 1850s Greek stone houses

Diyarbakır charcoal craft married to the Aegean, with daily homemade meze from the owner's wife

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

Çeşme's fish-and-meze institution since 1981