Waterfront in Çeşme

On the water's edge of antique Erythrai — three generations of family balıkçı in the peninsula's quiet north

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 1975 Dalyan harbour fish house that defines what a Çeşme balık restoranı should taste like

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

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