Venues similar to Ali'nin Yeri Ildırı Balık

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Kabak family's marina-side outpost where the day's catch is read off a board and the rakı arrives without asking

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