Plekken in İzmir

İzmir's flagship concert hall and gallery complex in Güzelyalı

Modern Turkish art in the restored 1906 French Consulate

Sea-view art house pairing European painting with Anatolian carpets

Farm-table artichoke kitchen in a Seferihisar village

Bib Gourmand Bosnian börek inside a 17th-century Kemeraltı han

İzmir's third-wave benchmark, roasting its own beans

The Urla market lokanta locals queue for

Bostanlı's serious seafood table by the tram line

Waterfront fresh-fish kitchen on the Foça promenade

Alsancak meyhane prized for flauntingly-fresh seafood

Detail-obsessed Karşıyaka roaster

Kordon fish institution beneath İzmir Palas since 1981

Hand-pounded dibek Turkish coffee, three generations deep

Bostanlı's special-occasion steakhouse

Foça harbour fish house locals defend over the strip

Eski Foça's harbourside fish house since 1984

Architect-founded hub of İzmir's coffee community

Bornova meyhane institution since 1966

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

Forest-to-fork 'New Urla cuisine' in the old town

New Urla cuisine from olive forest to table, in a stone Greek theatre

İzmir's söğüş benchmark since 1975, by Hisar Mosque

An 1881 neoclassical merchant's house on Foça harbour

City painting-and-sculpture museum inside the Kültür Sanat Fabrikası

31-room design boutique on the Kordon, a converted bank building

Aegean home cooking tucked inside a Kemeraltı han

İzmir köfte institution since 1965

İzmir's oldest living kokoreç master, charcoal since the 1960s

Sand-brewed Turkish coffee inside the 1740s caravanserai

Kemeraltı's reference kumru, sourced ingredient by ingredient

The kumru the Karşıyaka set grew up on

Bostanlı's freshly-roasted specialty coffee favourite since 2020

Stone-courtyard meyhane with fine-dining touches

Convivial chalkboard Aegean cooking next to the vines

Sığacık harbour's oldest fish house, serving since 1993

Tucked-away bistro on a quiet Alsancak side street

Barista-champion roastery in Bostanlı

Owner-run Alsancak wine bar with Turkish and grilled small plates

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

Kemeraltı's kelle söğüş master since 1975

The first meyhane of the Sığacık kale, Greek-taverna soul

Levantine-Italian dining in the Mistral tower

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

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

Osman Sezener's open-fire farm-to-table within an olive grove

İzmir's third-wave pioneer, roasting on Kıbrıs Şehitleri since 2016

1965 patisserie in a restored Levantine house

Serkan Sağsöz's Bostanlı micro-roastery

Aegean-Cretan seafood meyhane on the Pasaport waterfront since 1989

Chef-driven Italian on the ninth floor of the Swissôtel

Historic Alsancak patisserie since 1957

İzmir's classic patisserie and boyoz, since 1957

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

Solo-run coffee oasis with a deep patio

Landmark garden hotel with a serious 800-work art collection

1907 stone elevator and terrace over the Gulf of İzmir

İzmir's defining tradesmen's esnaf lokanta since the 1930s

Michelin Bib Gourmand Anatolian grill on Atatürk Caddesi

Terroir-driven Aegean cooking and rooms in Kuşçular village

Cortados and siphon brews from an Alsancak roastery bar

Stone vineyard retreat the NYT put on the map

The flagship estate that put the Urla wine route on the map

Organic boutique winery in a restored stone house

Kocadağ-slope winery with a tasting room and small inn

Founding Urla wine-route estate reviving Foça Karası

İzmir's first two-star table, among Urla's vines

İzmir's sesame gevrek, a local point of pride