Seafood in Çeşme

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

Chef Can Aras's wood-fired seafood room — the most ambitious new arrival the stone village has had in a decade

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

Chef Ahmet Horasan's lemon-tree courtyard — Gault & Millau Türkiye 2024 Best Seafood

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

The Viento courtyard where Alaçatı's stone-village finally has a Michelin-listed seafood room of record

Altuğ Tezer's chef's table on the Çark Plajı pier

The 1975 Dalyanköy fish house locals still defend

Elevated Dalyanköy fish house with a serious meze bench

Dalyanköy's quietly excellent harbour seafood room

Çeşme's fish-and-meze institution since 1981

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

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

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

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

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