Rustic in Çeşme

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

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

A 130-year stone-house garden in Hacımemiş where the Aegean serpme is taken seriously and the bazlama still comes off the saç

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

Eğlenhoca cooperative dairy — small-batch sepet keçi, deri tulum and oily-piquant kopanisti from peninsula goats

Levent and Güler Köstem's working olive farm — fourteen thousand trees, JOOP gold-medal Memecik, restaurant and three guest rooms

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

Mordoğan iskele room facing the sea — the working-village fish counter that yacht trade hasn't reached

A breakfast garden among Ovacık's vines — own house wine, own jams, own menemen

Nihal Hanım's garden in Saip village — forty house jams, mountain-foraged herbs, breakfast cooked by the village women

A twelve-year Alaçatı kahvaltı institution that quietly moved into the village square — herbed eggs, proper jams, no theatrics

A reservation-only farm garden between Alaçatı and Ovacık where the orange-cured olives alone earn the trip