Plekken in İzmir

İzmir's flagship concert hall and gallery complex in Güzelyalı

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

Detail-obsessed Karşıyaka roaster

Architect-founded hub of İzmir's coffee community

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

The Bostanlı waterfront meyhane locals defend

Aegean home cooking tucked inside a Kemeraltı han

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

Bostanlı's freshly-roasted specialty coffee favourite since 2020

Barista-champion roastery in Bostanlı

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

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

1965 patisserie in a restored Levantine house

Serkan Sağsöz's Bostanlı micro-roastery

Historic Alsancak patisserie since 1957

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

Solo-run coffee oasis with a deep patio

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

Cortados and siphon brews from an Alsancak roastery bar