Nouvelles adresses

North Piers' fine-dining courtyard in new Alaçatı

Çeşme's fish-and-meze institution since 1981

The peninsula's serious music-and-beach venue

The 1975 Dalyanköy fish house locals still defend

Dalyanköy's quietly excellent harbour seafood room

Tolga Kamiloğlu's contemporary Aegean kitchen on the Şifne seafront

Eleven-suite adults-only design hideaway on the Şifne shore

Michelin-listed butcher-steakhouse in a historic Ilıca house

The Çeşme kumru, made by the same family since 1970

İzmir's serious French patisserie, summering in Ilıca

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

Melih Teksen's inventive Aegean table inside Buradan vineyard

Organic chateau-style Ovacık winery with sunset tastings over Chios

Wood-fire slow food hidden in the Ovacık fields

Ionian ruins and a hillside theatre above a fishing hamlet

A 322-year-old Hellenistic stone house steps from the ruins

Waterfront boutique rooms with a private slip of beach

A 1528 Ottoman caravanserai sleeping beside the castle and marina

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

A twenty-seat vineyard-house table of slow Ovacık cooking

Elevated Dalyanköy fish house with a serious meze bench

The credible Anatolian grill room of Dalyan Marina

Owner-run stone villa with an olive garden near Yıldızburnu Bay

Genoese-era fortress holding Erythrai and Bronze-Age Çeşme finds

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

Burakhan Akçe's open-air sharing room — modern Aegean small plates a careful step away from Kemalpaşa Caddesi's noise

Hacımemiş's quiet stone garden — a chef's Aegean address that has held the same Tire-sourced standard since 2010

An 1800s Hacımemiş courtyard under the olive trees — the village's most romantic stone-house dining room

A handmade Hacımemiş Aegean kitchen run by two women who wrote the modern Alaçatı home-cooking template

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