Ali'nin Yeri Ildırı Balık Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Historic Family Run Waterfront Ali'nin Yeri Ildırı Balık Ildırı $$$ On the water's edge of antique Erythrai — three generations of family balıkçı in the peninsula's quiet north
Babylon Çeşme Nightclub Scelta della redazione Nightclub Confronta Waterfront Live Music Music Forward Babylon Çeşme Çeşme $$$ Pozitif's Aegean outpost in Aya Yorgi cove — a thousand-cover beach with citrus gardens, a music programme that earns the room, June through September
Çark Balık Çeşme Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Michelin Recognized Family Run Classic Çark Balık Çeşme Çeşme $$$ Michelin Guide-listed family osteria a few streets from the castle, serving day-boat fish and meze without the marina markup
Dalyan Restaurant Cevat'ın Yeri Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Classic Harbour Dalyan Restaurant Cevat'ın Yeri Çeşme $$$ The 1975 Dalyan harbour fish house that defines what a Çeşme balık restoranı should taste like
KestelINN Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Garden Elegant KestelINN Alaçatı $$$ Buse Bağlayan's farm-to-table room inside Small Luxury Hotels' only Alaçatı address — the kitchen is fed by the family's Ovacık farm
MITU Lokanta Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Garden Intimate MITU Lokanta Alaçatı $$$ Hüseyin Pancar's year-round Aegean room inside Alavya — the rare hotel kitchen Istanbullular cross town for
Ortaya Alaçatı Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Courtyard Intimate Ortaya Alaçatı Alaçatı $$$ Burakhan Akçe's open-air sharing room — modern Aegean small plates a careful step away from Kemalpaşa Caddesi's noise
Roka Bahçe Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Intimate Garden Chef Led Roka Bahçe Hacımemiş $$$ Hacımemiş's quiet stone garden — a chef's Aegean address that has held the same Tire-sourced standard since 2010
Arpège Patisserie Cafe Cafe Confronta French pastry Handmade Seasonal Arpège Patisserie Ilıca $$$ İzmir's serious French patisserie, summering in Ilıca
Babylon Aya Yorgi Nightclub Nightclub Confronta Live Music Beach Club Festival Babylon Aya Yorgi Çeşme Merkez $$$ The peninsula's serious music-and-beach venue
Buradan Bar Bar Confronta Organic winery Estate Grown Sunset Buradan Ovacık $$$ Organic chateau-style Ovacık winery with sunset tastings over Chios
Cevat'ın Yeri (Dalyan Restoran) Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Harbourside Rakı Balık Old Guard Cevat'ın Yeri (Dalyan Restoran) Dalyanköy (Dalyan) $$$ The 1975 Dalyanköy fish house locals still defend
Defne Yaprağı Balık Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Village setting Meze Forward Day Boat fish Defne Yaprağı Balık Dalyanköy $$$ Elevated Dalyanköy fish house with a serious meze bench
Defne Yaprağı Balık Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Family Run Harbourside Warm service Defne Yaprağı Balık Restaurant Dalyanköy (Dalyan) $$$ Dalyanköy's quietly excellent harbour seafood room
Ferdi Baba Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Seafood Meze Marina Ferdi Baba Çeşme Merkez $$$ Çeşme's fish-and-meze institution since 1981
İstakozcu Canbaba Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Seafood Lobster Sea View İstakozcu Canbaba Çiftlik, Çeşme $$$ A seaside lobster house run by a host who has held the room for years
Kanuni Kervansaray Historical Hotel Hotel Hotel Confronta Historic Ottoman Courtyard Kanuni Kervansaray Historical Hotel Çeşme Merkez & Kale $$$ A 1528 Ottoman caravanserai sleeping beside the castle and marina
Kasap Fuat Çeşme Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Butcher Craft Dry Aged Terrace Kasap Fuat Çeşme Ilıca (Altınyunus) $$$ Michelin-listed butcher-steakhouse in a historic Ilıca house
Latife Çeşme Ocakbaşı Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Charcoal grill Marina view Meze table Latife Çeşme Ocakbaşı Dalyan Marina $$$ The credible Anatolian grill room of Dalyan Marina
My Stone Home Hotel Hotel Hotel Confronta Stone villa Owner Run Olive garden My Stone Home Hotel Ilıca $$$ Owner-run stone villa with an olive garden near Yıldızburnu Bay
Ova Sofra Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Farm To Table Vineyard House Intimate Ova Sofra Ovacık vineyard belt $$$ A twenty-seat vineyard-house table of slow Ovacık cooking
Yeni Yer Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Wood Fire Slow food Field setting Yeni Yer Ovacık $$$ Wood-fire slow food hidden in the Ovacık fields
Alaçatı Zeytin Tarla Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Garden Intimate Rustic Alaçatı Zeytin Tarla Alaçatı $$$ Zeytin Konak's wood-oven pizza room set inside its own pesticide-free vegetable field — forty-five covers, dinner only, salads cut that hour
Alliance Yıldızburnu Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Elegant Classic Alliance Yıldızburnu Ilıca $$$ Italian-leaning Mediterranean kitchen on the cape — pasta, wood-fired pizza and Aegean fish in a room engineered for long sea-view dinners
Ark Alaçatı Bar Bar Confronta Historic Live Music Intimate Ark Alaçatı Hacımemiş $$$ Stone-walled Hacımemiş room where wine, jazz and Aegean cooking share the same evening — Ozan Musluoğlu directs the music
Babushka Alaçatı Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Garden Family Babushka Alaçatı Alaçatı $$$ Olga and Özgür's Turkish-Russian courtyard kitchen — two grandmothers' recipes met in a stone garden under pomegranate and lemon
byZevkliler Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Elegant Garden byZevkliler Alaçatı $$$ A culinary academic's Greek-Aegean fine-dining room tucked into a fifteen-room boutique near the Marina road
Çakır Winery Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Scenic Estate Romantic Çakır Winery Tokoğlu $$$ A late-arriving estate with the most accomplished vineyard kitchen on the Urla route — wood oven, Aegean-Italian menu
Eflatun Alaçatı Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Intimate Stone House Eflatun Alaçatı Hacımemiş $$$ A handmade Hacımemiş Aegean kitchen run by two women who wrote the modern Alaçatı home-cooking template
Fahri'nin Yeri Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Classic Family Run Fahri'nin Yeri Alaçatı Marina $$$ Since 1993, the fishing-harbour family room that defined Port Alaçatı before the marina arrived around it
Ferdi Baba Şifne Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Classic Low Key Ferdi Baba Şifne Şifne $$$ The original Şifne address of the Kabak fish dynasty — the quiet one, where the locals still go
HUS Şarapçılık Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Scenic Estate Modern HUS Şarapçılık Tokoğlu $$$ The peninsula's youngest serious estate — Chilean winemaking lineage, pre-phylloxera Carignan, panoramic terrace kitchen
Kalama Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Elegant Family Kalama Ilıca $$$ Ilıca Hotel's open-deck Aegean room overlooking the thermal bay — the resort coast's most assured kitchen
Kapari Bahçe Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Romantic Garden Stone House Kapari Bahçe Hacımemiş $$$ An 1800s Hacımemiş courtyard under the olive trees — the village's most romantic stone-house dining room
Köstem Organik Çiftliği Shop Shop Confronta Scenic Estate Rustic Köstem Organik Çiftliği Tokoğlu $$$ Levent and Güler Köstem's working olive farm — fourteen thousand trees, JOOP gold-medal Memecik, restaurant and three guest rooms
Lagada Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Marina Classic Lagada Alaçatı Marina $$$ Fish and Aegean meze on the marina edge, named after the Chios village whose flavours quietly cross the strait
Mâzi Yıldızburnu Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Intimate Romantic Mâzi Yıldızburnu Ilıca $$$ Sertan's small seafood room on the Yıldızburnu cape — water-edge tables, sharp kitchen, prices that still make sense by Çeşme standards
MMG Şarapçılık Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Scenic Estate Rustic MMG Şarapçılık Tokoğlu $$$ Meltem Güner Atalay's hillside estate — night-harvest grapes, gravity-fed cellar, 20,000 bottles by hand
Mozaik Şarapçılık Shop Shop Confronta Estate Scenic Rustic Mozaik Şarapçılık Tokoğlu $$$ Mahrem-label reds from Italian varietals, grown organically on the grounds of Türkiye's largest racehorse stud
Nook Cocktail Bar Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Craft Cocktails Speakeasy Nook Cocktail Bar Alaçatı $$$ Small candlelit cocktail room off 2000. Sokak — handcrafted drinks, low volume, the closest the village gets to a proper speakeasy
Pizzeria da Roberto Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Chef Led Garden Intimate Pizzeria da Roberto Hacımemiş $$$ Roberto Fracasso's Hacımemiş courtyard — the only Alaçatı oven where the pizzaiolo is actually Italian
Sailors Alaçatı Bar Bar Confronta Garden Craft Cocktails All Day Sailors Alaçatı Hacımemiş $$$ The Hacımemiş garden-cocktail format done at scale — kitchen runs all day, bar runs late, 150 covers under the trees
Salonis Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Family Run Waterfront Classic Salonis Çiftlikköy $$$ The Yılmaz family's Çiftlikköy seafront since 2009 — the quietest Çeşme fish table looking across to Sakız
Statera Şarapçılık Shop Shop Confronta Scenic Estate Rustic Statera Şarapçılık Tokoğlu $$$ Lena and Alihan Haydaroğlu's Özbek estate — Rhône blends from a wind gap two kilometres from the sea
Urla Şarapçılık Shop Shop Confronta Scenic Historic Estate Urla Şarapçılık Tokoğlu $$$ Can Ortabaş's pioneering estate where Decanter Platinum bottles and an arboretum share one ridgeline above Kuşçular
USCA Şarapçılık Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Scenic Estate Romantic USCA Şarapçılık Tokoğlu $$$ Vineyard restaurant where Foça Karası — a 2,600-year-old grape — is served alongside Cabernet from the same hillside
Vino Alaçatı Bar Bar Confronta Historic Intimate Cozy Vino Alaçatı Alaçatı $$$ Thirty-seven local boutique bottles in the village's hundred-year priest's house — fireplace, three rooms upstairs, the bar that built the wine reputation