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The peninsula's serious specialty coffee bar, Guatemala, Colombia, Kenya, Ethiopia on rotation, a Hacımemiş regulars' room

Tomris Maravent's 2004 corner café, the steady Alaçatı pulse, eight tables that grew into the village living room

The Demirel family's handmade Alaçatı patisserie, a quiet bakery counter the village uses for birthdays it actually means

Hacımemiş's mulberry-tree corner since 1963, the village's classical Turkish coffee bench, untouched by the specialty wave

A small, coffee-only room that fresh-roasts and means it

The original sakızlı muhallebi house, the recipe the rest of the country has spent twenty years trying to copy

A year-round roaster that treats single origins as the whole point

The Akbulut family's 2014 Alaçatı gelato counter, a Financial Times top-25 boutique, a hundred-and-fifty rotating flavours, made on site every morning

Stone terrace at the gate of Erythrai antique city, the Ildırı sunset bench with takımadalar in frame

Istanbul's award-winning roaster, seasonally transplanted into a stone house

An Italian gelataio who fell for the Aegean and now churns the peninsula's most honest gelato off a Hacimemis corner

Three generations of Aegean mastic worked off one Ugur Mumcu counter since 1945, sakizli dondurma, kurabiye and jams from the source

An owner-poured bar where the cocktail list is rewritten, not reprinted

The 1945 İnkılap Caddesi corner where damla sakızlı dondurma was invented, a Mersin family pastane now in its third generation

The 1994 Saturday market on Tokoğlu's edge, the peninsula's slow-food anchor and the village's true social square

The mastic park north of the village, the peninsula's only living gallery of Pistacia lentiscus and the Sakız Ağacım revival project's home