Historic in Çeşme

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

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

The 1945 İnkılap Caddesi corner where damla sakızlı dondurma was invented, a Mersin family pastane now in its third generation

A 1528 Ottoman caravanserai sleeping beside the castle and marina

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

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

Stone-walled Hacımemiş room where wine, jazz and Aegean cooking share the same evening, Ozan Musluoğlu directs the music

Hacımemiş's mulberry-tree corner since 1963, the village's classical Turkish coffee bench, untouched by the specialty wave

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

Tomris Maravent's 2004 corner café, the steady Alaçatı pulse, eight tables that grew into the village living room

The 1974 Uğur Mumcu counter where the Çeşme kumru is still pressed the way the family wrote it, tomato, sucuk, kaşar, no shortcuts

Mahrem-label reds from Italian varietals, grown organically on the grounds of Türkiye's largest racehorse stud

Can Ortabaş's pioneering estate where Decanter Platinum bottles and an arboretum share one ridgeline above Kuşçular

Thirty-seven local boutique bottles in the village's hundred-year priest's house, fireplace, three rooms upstairs, the bar that built the wine reputation