Locali affini a Salonis

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

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

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

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

Mordoğan iskele room facing the sea — the working-village fish counter that yacht trade hasn't reached

Burakhan Akçe's open-air sharing room — modern Aegean small plates a careful step away from Kemalpaşa Caddesi's noise

A handmade Hacımemiş Aegean kitchen run by two women who wrote the modern Alaçatı home-cooking template

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

Fish and Aegean meze on the marina edge, named after the Chios village whose flavours quietly cross the strait

Since 1993, the fishing-harbour family room that defined Port Alaçatı before the marina arrived around it

Roberto Fracasso's Hacımemiş courtyard — the only Alaçatı oven where the pizzaiolo is actually Italian

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

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

Hüseyin Pancar's year-round Aegean room inside Alavya — the rare hotel kitchen Istanbullular cross town for

Buse Bağlayan's farm-to-table room inside Small Luxury Hotels' only Alaçatı address — the kitchen is fed by the family's Ovacık farm

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

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

The original Şifne address of the Kabak fish dynasty — the quiet one, where the locals still go

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

Italian-leaning Mediterranean kitchen on the cape — pasta, wood-fired pizza and Aegean fish in a room engineered for long sea-view dinners