The 1981 Çeşme fish house's village outpost, the old-town keeper for cold rakı and a whole grilled levrek
Ferdi Baba started at Aya Yorgi in 1981 and has been the Çeşme peninsula's reference fish address since well before Alaçatı's name carried beyond İzmir. The Köyiçi branch on Kemalpaşa is the village version: a courtyard of stone walls and white linen, the day's catch on ice at the entrance, mezes that change with the season, and the kind of unhurried, knowing service that survives the August crowds. The marina branch is the famous one; the village table is the better one.
Walk to the ice display before sitting and pick the fish yourself, the maitre d' will guide you to what came in that morning. Çipura over levrek if both are there. Cold rakı, lemon on the side.
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