Venues similar to Rumeli Pastanesi

The original sakızlı muhallebi house, the recipe the rest of the country has spent twenty years trying to copy

The Akbulut family's 2014 Alaçatı gelato counter, a Financial Times top-25 boutique, a hundred-and-fifty rotating flavours, made on site every morning

Stone terrace at the gate of Erythrai antique city, the Ildırı sunset bench with takımadalar in frame

Founded 1953 by the Kadagan brothers from Yugoslavia, the peninsula's archetype of stew-pot Anatolian home cooking, still in family hands

Three generations of Aegean mastic worked off one Ugur Mumcu counter since 1945, sakizli dondurma, kurabiye and jams from the source

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

The original Şifne address of the Kabak fish dynasty, the quiet one, where the locals still go

Since 1993, the fishing-harbour family room that defined Port Alaçatı before the marina arrived around it

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