Restaurant in İzmir

Farm-table artichoke kitchen in a Seferihisar village

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

The Urla market lokanta locals queue for

Bostanlı's serious seafood table by the tram line

Waterfront fresh-fish kitchen on the Foça promenade

Kordon fish institution beneath İzmir Palas since 1981

Bostanlı's special-occasion steakhouse

Foça harbour fish house locals defend over the strip

Eski Foça's harbourside fish house since 1984

Bornova meyhane institution since 1966

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

Aegean home cooking tucked inside a Kemeraltı han

İzmir köfte institution since 1965

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

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

Kemeraltı's kelle söğüş master since 1975

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

Levantine-Italian dining in the Mistral tower

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

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

Aegean-Cretan seafood meyhane on the Pasaport waterfront since 1989

Chef-driven Italian on the ninth floor of the Swissôtel

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

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

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