Romantic in Çeşme

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

Zeytin Konak's wood-oven pizza room set inside its own pesticide-free vegetable field — forty-five covers, dinner only, salads cut that hour

A late-arriving estate with the most accomplished vineyard kitchen on the Urla route — wood oven, Aegean-Italian menu

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

Sertan's small seafood room on the Yıldızburnu cape — water-edge tables, sharp kitchen, prices that still make sense by Çeşme standards

Small candlelit cocktail room off 2000. Sokak — handcrafted drinks, low volume, the closest the village gets to a proper speakeasy

Vineyard restaurant where Foça Karası — a 2,600-year-old grape — is served alongside Cabernet from the same hillside