Best Views in Çeşme

The Kabak family's marina-side outpost where the day's catch is read off a board and the rakı arrives without asking

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

Since 1993, the fishing-harbour family room that defined Port Alaçatı before the marina arrived around it

The 1975 Dalyan harbour fish house that defines what a Çeşme balık restoranı should taste like

Chef Ahmet Horasan's lemon-tree courtyard, Gault & Millau Türkiye 2024 Best Seafood

Polished Aya Yorgi cove daytime that turns DJ-led after dark, Tayu sushi kitchen on site, the contemporary half of the cove's beach-club pair

The 1945 İnkılap Caddesi corner where damla sakızlı dondurma was invented, a Mersin family pastane now in its third generation

Michelin Guide-listed family osteria a few streets from the castle, serving day-boat fish and meze without the marina markup

Founded 1953 by the Kadagan brothers from Yugoslavia, the peninsula's archetype of stew-pot Anatolian home cooking, still in family hands

All-day kitchen on the yacht slips, French-leaning breakfast through midnight cocktails, run by a working chef line rather than a brand operator