Venues similar to Varka Alaçatı

The village's oldest rakı-fish table, run by the same family since 1950

Aegean meze read off both shores, served in a courtyard tucked between two 1850s Greek stone houses

Diyarbakır charcoal craft married to the Aegean, with daily homemade meze from the owner's wife

Wood-fire day fish and herb meze with your feet near the sand at the Çark Beach bay

Enes Kara's stone courtyard reading of Aegean cooking, equal parts rooted and rewritten

Two hundred Turkish bottles in a pomegranate garden behind a 150-year-old house, wine boutique and kitchen under the same roof

A small, coffee-only room that fresh-roasts and means it

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

Çeşme's fish-and-meze institution since 1981

A seaside lobster house run by a host who has held the room for years

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

A small Şifne fish house on the village side, for when even Ferdi Baba feels too crowded

Modernised ocakbaşı with a Nişantaşı pedigree, transplanted to the marina with mixologist-led cocktails and grilled meats by the water