Waterfront in Gümüşlük

Chef Uğur Filiz's open-fire fish room with the panoramic seat and the underwater lights at the tables

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

All-day Gümüşlük operation, small hotel, kitchen-led seafood, a wine list the cove was missing.

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

Sunset cove fish house, consistent, family-run, the working version of the Gümüşlük template.

1968 harbour fish house, the Gümüşlük institution that pre-dates the cove's curated era.

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

The morning corner of Gümüşlük, where coffee arrives before the boats unload