Waterfront in Çeşme

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

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

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

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

All-day kitchen on the yacht slips — French-leaning breakfast through midnight cocktails, run by a working chef line rather than a brand operator

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

Fish and Aegean meze on the marina edge, named after the Chios village whose flavours quietly cross the strait

Mordoğan iskele room facing the sea — the working-village fish counter that yacht trade hasn't reached

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