Noni's House
Ovacık
A breakfast garden among Ovacık's vines, own house wine, own jams, own menemen
Nihal Hanım's garden in Saip village, forty house jams, mountain-foraged herbs, breakfast cooked by the village women
Nihal Hanım returned to İzmir after years in finance, bought a house in Saip village, and with her husband Eşref Bey turned the garden into a kır kahvesi. The table now carries close to forty house jams, lavender, fig, raw zucchini, mountain-foraged apricot, alongside gözleme and mantı the village women cook on site, and eggs from the household chickens. In the inland core of the Karaburun peninsula, an hour's mountain drive from Çeşme; a deliberately slow breakfast stop that stretches the day. The jams travel; you order the house's lavender and mountain apricot for the kitchen at home.
Drive out from Çeşme via Mordoğan-Saip; not a standalone trip but a stop inside a Karaburun day. The lavender and the mountain-foraged apricot jams are the ones to take home.
At a Glance
View Type
Aegean Sea Panoramic, Bay View
View Quality
Exceptional
Sunset
**** (4/5)
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