Mediterranean in Çeşme

On the water's edge of antique Erythrai, three generations of family balıkçı in the peninsula's quiet north

Ayşenur Mıhçı's farm-to-table Aegean room, the only Michelin Bib Gourmand and Green Star on the peninsula

The 1975 Dalyan harbour fish house that defines what a Çeşme balık restoranı should taste like

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

Türkiye's first lobster restaurant, Tuğrul Erol's Çiftlikköy room since 1974 and Vedat Milor's consistent Aegean pick

Hacımemiş's quiet stone garden, a chef's Aegean address that has held the same Tire-sourced standard since 2010

The Viento courtyard where Alaçatı's stone-village finally has a Michelin-listed seafood room of record

Olga and Özgür's Turkish-Russian courtyard kitchen, two grandmothers' recipes met in a stone garden under pomegranate and lemon

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

The 1981 Çeşme fish house's village outpost, the old-town keeper for cold rakı and a whole grilled levrek

An 1800s Hacımemiş courtyard under the olive trees, the village's most romantic stone-house dining room