Ali'nin Yeri Ildırı Balık Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Historic Family Run Waterfront Ali'nin Yeri Ildırı Balık Ildırı $$$ On the water's edge of antique Erythrai — three generations of family balıkçı in the peninsula's quiet north
Dalyan Restaurant Cevat'ın Yeri Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Harbour Dalyan Restaurant Cevat'ın Yeri Çeşme $$$ The 1975 Dalyan harbour fish house that defines what a Çeşme balık restoranı should taste like
Ferdi Baba Port Alaçatı Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Marina Ferdi Baba Port Alaçatı Alaçatı Marina $$$$ The Kabak family's marina-side outpost where the day's catch is read off a board and the rakı arrives without asking
Langusta Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Historic Family Run Waterfront Langusta Çiftlikköy $$$$ Türkiye's first lobster restaurant — Tuğrul Erol's Çiftlikköy room since 1974 and Vedat Milor's consistent Aegean pick
Alliance Yıldızburnu Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Elegant Classic Alliance Yıldızburnu Ilıca $$$ Italian-leaning Mediterranean kitchen on the cape — pasta, wood-fired pizza and Aegean fish in a room engineered for long sea-view dinners
Ferdi Baba Şifne Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Low Key Ferdi Baba Şifne Şifne $$$ The original Şifne address of the Kabak fish dynasty — the quiet one, where the locals still go
Fuente Çeşme Marina Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Marina All Day Fuente Çeşme Marina Çeşme $$$$ All-day kitchen on the yacht slips — French-leaning breakfast through midnight cocktails, run by a working chef line rather than a brand operator
Kalama Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Elegant Family Kalama Ilıca $$$ Ilıca Hotel's open-deck Aegean room overlooking the thermal bay — the resort coast's most assured kitchen
Lagada Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Marina Classic Lagada Alaçatı Marina $$$ Fish and Aegean meze on the marina edge, named after the Chios village whose flavours quietly cross the strait
Mimas Balık Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Waterfront Classic Mimas Balık Restaurant Karaburun $$ Mordoğan iskele room facing the sea — the working-village fish counter that yacht trade hasn't reached
Salonis Restaurant Restaurant Compare Family Run Waterfront Classic Salonis Çiftlikköy $$$ The Yılmaz family's Çiftlikköy seafront since 2009 — the quietest Çeşme fish table looking across to Sakız