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

Meltem Güner Atalay's hillside estate — night-harvest grapes, gravity-fed cellar, 20,000 bottles by hand

Buse Bağlayan's farm-to-table room inside Small Luxury Hotels' only Alaçatı address — the kitchen is fed by the family's Ovacık farm

A culinary academic's Greek-Aegean fine-dining room tucked into a fifteen-room boutique near the Marina road

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

Dalyanköy's quietly excellent harbour seafood room