Venues similar to İmi Ayayorgi

Modernised ocakbaşı with a Nişantaşı pedigree, transplanted to the marina with mixologist-led cocktails and grilled meats by the water

Italian-leaning Mediterranean kitchen on the cape, pasta, wood-fired pizza and Aegean fish in a room engineered for long sea-view dinners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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