Rustic in Ortakent

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

A Gürece atelier making cow-and-goat-milk dondurma with real salep and nothing else, three tables out front

The Saturday seed-association producer market, heirloom Aegean vegetables, raw honey, ev reçeli, straight from the grower

A restored stone-house art village on the Yakaköy ridge, galleries, ateliers, an Ottoman ethnographic room and a film bar

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

An inland Yahşi farm-table breakfast, own-garden vegetables, cured house charcuterie, Sunday-morning ritual