Yakamengen III

Yakamengen III sits inside a 150-year-old olive-oil mill in Yaka köyü, on the Knidos road out of Datça, and is the room the MICHELIN 2026 selection used to mark Duru Akgül as Türkiye's Young Chef of the year, the first woman to take the award. Akgül trained at Avusturya Lisesi and Johnson & Wales, ran kitchens in Boston, Chicago and New York, and brought the discipline back to a kitchen garden of her own: chamomile, capers, prickly pear, purslane, lesser-known Aegean fish, no ingredient repeated across a course. The setting is mill-stone, garden, dinner under olive trees; the cooking is the most serious thing happening on the Reşadiye peninsula.