Alliance Yıldızburnu

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

Ilıca Hotel's open-deck Aegean room overlooking the thermal bay, the resort coast's most assured kitchen

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

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

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