Adresses in İzmir

Gastronomy-led cocktail bar off Kıbrıs Şehitleri

Farm-table artichoke kitchen in a Seferihisar village

Urla town's Bib Gourmand meyhane in a courtyard stone house

İzmir's third-wave benchmark, roasting its own beans

The Urla market lokanta locals queue for

Bostanlı's serious seafood table by the tram line

Waterfront fresh-fish kitchen on the Foça promenade

Alsancak meyhane prized for flauntingly-fresh seafood

Kordon fish institution beneath İzmir Palas since 1981

Bostanlı's special-occasion steakhouse

Foça harbour fish house locals defend over the strip

Eski Foça's harbourside fish house since 1984

Bornova meyhane institution since 1966

75-year-old Basmane meyhane, rakı-meze the old way

Forest-to-fork 'New Urla cuisine' in the old town

New Urla cuisine from olive forest to table, in a stone Greek theatre

An 1881 neoclassical merchant's house on Foça harbour

City painting-and-sculpture museum inside the Kültür Sanat Fabrikası

The Bostanlı waterfront meyhane locals defend

31-room design boutique on the Kordon, a converted bank building

Aegean home cooking tucked inside a Kemeraltı han

İzmir köfte institution since 1965

İzmir's oldest living kokoreç master, charcoal since the 1960s

The kumru the Karşıyaka set grew up on

İzmir's serious wine room with ~100 labels in Karşıyaka

Garden-gate bistro with a real wine list

Bostanlı's freshly-roasted specialty coffee favourite since 2020

Stone-courtyard meyhane with fine-dining touches

Convivial chalkboard Aegean cooking next to the vines

Sığacık harbour's oldest fish house, serving since 1993

Tucked-away bistro on a quiet Alsancak side street

Owner-run Alsancak wine bar with Turkish and grilled small plates

Levantine Alsancak bakery, croissants done as well as anywhere in Turkey

The first meyhane of the Sığacık kale, Greek-taverna soul

Levantine-Italian dining in the Mistral tower

Italy-inspired, unirrigated estate making Turkey's unusual varietals

Warm family-run fish-and-meze house in the Sığacık kale

Osman Sezener's open-fire farm-to-table within an olive grove

İzmir's third-wave pioneer, roasting on Kıbrıs Şehitleri since 2016

1965 patisserie in a restored Levantine house

Aegean-Cretan seafood meyhane on the Pasaport waterfront since 1989

Chef-driven Italian on the ninth floor of the Swissôtel

Historic Alsancak patisserie since 1957

Fish-market seafood at honest prices in Sığacık's castle village

Landmark garden hotel with a serious 800-work art collection

1907 stone elevator and terrace over the Gulf of İzmir

Michelin Bib Gourmand Anatolian grill on Atatürk Caddesi

Terroir-driven Aegean cooking and rooms in Kuşçular village

Stone vineyard retreat the NYT put on the map

A seven-table chef restaurant among century-old Urla vines

Organic boutique winery in a restored stone house

Kocadağ-slope winery with a tasting room and small inn

İzmir's first two-star table, among Urla's vines

İzmir's sesame gevrek, a local point of pride