Plekken in İzmir

Aegean home cooking tucked inside a Kemeraltı han

Levantine Alsancak bakery, croissants done as well as anywhere in Turkey

Italy-inspired, unirrigated estate making Turkey's unusual varietals

Warm family-run fish-and-meze house in the Sığacık kale

Historic Alsancak patisserie since 1957

Fish-market seafood at honest prices in Sığacık's castle village

75-year-old Basmane meyhane, rakı-meze the old way