Plekken in 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

The Kabak family's marina-side outpost where the day's catch is read off a board and the rakı arrives without asking

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

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

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

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

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