Locali affini a Çeşme Castle & Archaeology Museum

The mastic park north of the village, the peninsula's only living gallery of Pistacia lentiscus and the Sakız Ağacım revival project's home

Ionian ruins and a hillside theatre above a fishing hamlet

The 1945 İnkılap Caddesi corner where damla sakızlı dondurma was invented, a Mersin family pastane now in its third generation

The original sakızlı muhallebi house, the recipe the rest of the country has spent twenty years trying to copy

The Çeşme kumru, made by the same family since 1970

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

Chef Ahmet Horasan's lemon-tree courtyard, Gault & Millau Türkiye 2024 Best Seafood

Michelin Guide-listed family osteria a few streets from the castle, serving day-boat fish and meze without the marina markup

Founded 1953 by the Kadagan brothers from Yugoslavia, the peninsula's archetype of stew-pot Anatolian home cooking, still in family hands