Elegant in Çeşme

Melih Teksen's twenty-five-year Alaçatı institution, transplanted to Buradan's organic vines — set menu and pairings among the Grenache rows

Chef Can Aras's wood-fired seafood room — the most ambitious new arrival the stone village has had in a decade

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

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

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

Elevated Dalyanköy fish house with a serious meze bench

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

Stone-walled Hacımemiş room where wine, jazz and Aegean cooking share the same evening — Ozan Musluoğlu directs the music

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

Polished Aya Yorgi cove daytime that turns DJ-led after dark — Tayu sushi kitchen on site, the contemporary half of the cove's beach-club pair

Ilıca Hotel's open-deck Aegean room overlooking the thermal bay — the resort coast's most assured kitchen

Meltem Güner Atalay's hillside estate — night-harvest grapes, gravity-fed cellar, 20,000 bottles by hand